Measurement

How to measure AEO

Measure AEO in two layers. The fetch layer asks whether AI agents can read your pages: status code, text received and sentence survival. The answer layer asks whether you are mentioned and cited across a fixed set of buyer-intent prompts.

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Fetch metrics

Probe each page with the 10 canonical user agents and record:

HTTP status per user agent
Bytes and visible text received
Main text ratio and first content offset
Sentence survival against the rendered page

Answer metrics

Run the same buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity on a fixed schedule and record:

Mention: the answer names your brand
Citation: the answer links your domain
Owned answer: a cited answer, not a mention
Competitors named in the same answer

Label what you have not measured

A metric you did not collect should read NOT YET MEASURED, never a pass. That keeps every number defensible.

FAQ

Questions people ask

What is a good AEO metric?

Citation rate on buyer-intent prompts, backed by a clean live fetch on the pages those prompts should cite.

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