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Content scoring tool: can an AI engine quote this page?
Our content scoring tool scores one page, or text you paste, out of 100 on seven published checks from our playbook on writing a page an AI engine can quote: a short answer at the top, specific headings, numbers that keep their base, linked sources, sections that read alone, a visible date and a plain reading level.
We read robots.txt before anything else and follow it, then read your page within eight seconds: up to three redirects, each checked again and each to a public HTTPS address, and at most 1.5 MB. HTTPS websites are supported; other addresses are refused. Pasted text is scored in this page and is not sent to our server.
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No email is needed; runs are limited per network and per day, and by the site's daily allowance.
We do not save your website, company name, page content or result. We keep daily totals and hashed network counters to enforce limits. A shared result stays in its link, not on our server.
What we check and why
A short answer at the top (20 points)
The opening sentence of the text has fewer than 30 words; under 45 earns half. Our playbook uses this as an editorial constraint, not an engine threshold.
Headings that state a question or a claim (15 points)
At least two section headings (H2 or H3), none of them a generic label such as Overview or Introduction.
Numbers keep their base or date (15 points)
At least four in five sentences that carry a percentage, ratio or multiple also name a base (such as 39 of 2,095) or a date.
Sources linked from the text (15 points)
Two or more links from the text to other websites, so a reader can check the claims.
Sections that read on their own (10 points)
Sections open by naming their subject, not with This, That, It or They, so each reads alone when quoted.
A visible date (10 points)
A full date, or an updated, published or checked line with a year, appears in the text.
Plain reading level (15 points)
A Flesch-Kincaid grade of 12 or lower passes and 16 or lower earns half, over at least 100 words of prose.
How the score adds up
A passing check earns its full weight and a partial result earns half. A check that does not apply (no statistics, fewer than two sections, or under 100 words of prose) is left out, and the score is scaled to 100 over the checks that apply. The checks follow our playbook.
Questions
What makes content easy for an AI engine to quote?
A supported answer near the top, numbers that keep their base and date, sources a reader can open, and sections that make sense alone. These are editorial recommendations from our playbook; no study has shown a formula that makes an engine cite a page.
Is this the same as an SEO content score?
No. It does not count keywords or compare you with ranking pages. It checks whether a reader, or a system that quotes passages, can lift an answer with its evidence intact.
Why did my page get no reading grade?
The grade needs at least 100 words of prose. Shorter text, or a page whose text is mostly headings and labels, is left out of the score rather than graded on too little.
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When you want us to do the work, every offer and its published price is on our offers page. More free checks: the ChatGPT Business Hub readiness check, the passage relevance inspector, the raw HTML readability checker and the text cleanup tool, or see all free tools. Read next: How do you write a page an AI engine can quote? and How should I structure headings for AI crawlers?