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SEO Madmanby Adam Hafez
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AI answer readiness checker for articles

Score an article on the structural properties that decide whether an answer engine can extract, quote and attribute it.

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded, logged or stored.

Key takeaways

  • An opening paragraph of 40 to 60 words that answers the headline directly is the single highest-leverage change most articles can make.
  • Headings that carry stable ids let a system cite one section of a page rather than the whole page.
  • List items written as complete sentences survive being lifted out of context; fragments do not.
  • Structure is necessary but never sufficient, because no amount of markup makes an unsourced claim worth citing.

What it takes

  • The rendered HTML of a page, for a full score
  • Or its plain text, for a rough one

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How to use it

  1. 1Get the rendered HTMLOpen the page, view source or copy the DOM, and paste it in. Plain text works but cannot score heading ids or structured data.
  2. 2Run the scoreEach check is scored separately, so a low total tells you which property is missing rather than just that something is wrong.
  3. 3Fix the opening answer firstIt carries the most weight here for the same reason it matters in practice: it is the passage most likely to be quoted.
  4. 4Re-run after publishingScore the live page rather than the draft, because a content management system can strip ids and reorder markup.

What is actually being measured

Seven structural properties, each scored on its own:

  • An opening answer of 40 to 60 words. Long enough to be complete, short enough to quote whole.
  • Question-shaped headings. Headings that match how a person phrases the question they typed.
  • Stable heading ids. The difference between citing a page and citing a passage of it.
  • Standalone list items. A bullet that reads as a full sentence survives being lifted alone.
  • Outbound citations. Pages that cite verifiable sources are safer to repeat.
  • Structured data. An explicit machine reading beats an inferred one.
  • A machine-readable date. Freshness cannot be assessed if it cannot be parsed.

What it deliberately does not score

Accuracy, authority and originality, because no script can assess them. A page can score full marks here and be entirely wrong, and a page with none of this structure can be the best thing written on its subject. The score answers one narrow question: if a system wanted to quote this page, could it?

Sources

  1. 1.AI features and your website - Google Search CentralPrimary
  2. 2.Google's guide to optimizing for generative AI features on Search - Google Search CentralPrimary

Frequently asked questions

Does a high score mean an answer engine will cite my page?

No, and any tool claiming otherwise is guessing. This scores whether a page is structurally easy to extract and attribute. Whether a system chooses your page over another depends on authority, relevance to the specific prompt and factors none of us can observe.

Why does it weight the opening paragraph so heavily?

Because an extraction pass has to find a self-contained answer somewhere, and the top of the article is where it looks first. A page that opens with throat-clearing forces a system to synthesise an answer from fragments, which makes attribution to your page less likely.

Is my content uploaded anywhere?

No. The page loads a small script that parses the text in your browser. There is no server involved, no request carrying your content, and nothing stored.