LLM Readiness Checklist — 20-Check AEO Audit

What the audit measures

Each check returns a score from 0 to 100, the exact evidence pulled from the page, and a concrete fix. The overall score is a weighted average across all 20 checks.

1. Semantic Entity Coverage — related entities and subtopics on the page.
2. E-E-A-T signals — author, dates, citations, original media.
3. Q&A Structure — question headings, direct first-sentence answers, FAQ schema.
4. Schema markup — JSON-LD types present (Organization, Article, Product, FAQ, BreadcrumbList).
5. Brand mention frequency — how often the brand appears on-page.
6. Freshness — recent publish or update dates.
7. Conversational tone — short sentences, low hedging.
8. Technical accessibility — single H1, indexable, sufficient content.
9. Internal & external linking — link diversity and authority.
10. Marketing-fluff density — generic copy penalty.
11. Entity Knowledge Graph — Organization schema with sameAs, founders, products.
12. Topical Authority — guides, comparisons, FAQs, use cases, definitions.
13. Retrieval Chunk Quality — self-contained sections, short paragraphs, clear headings.
14. Citation Worthiness — quotable stats, dates, customer counts, countries served, funding.
15. Competitive Intent Match — versus, best-of, alternatives, how-it-works coverage.
16. External Authority Signals — Crunchbase, G2, Capterra, Forbes, LinkedIn references.
17. Content Uniqueness — unique, quantified, brand-specific statements.
18. Programmatic Crawlability — sitemap, canonical, clean HTML, SSR/pre-render, fast rendering.
19. Brand-Query Dominance — coverage of "What is", pricing, reviews, alternatives, features.
20. Robots & Sitemap Validation — robots.txt allows indexing and references sitemap.xml.

How to run an audit

1. Sign in to SEO Strater.
2. Paste raw HTML, fetch a URL, or run the Chrome extension on the current tab.
3. Optionally add brand name, domain, and related entities (brand is auto-detected from the page when omitted).
4. Review the 20 scored checks, on-page evidence, and a generated content outline for missing branded queries.
5. Save the report to compare versions over time or benchmark competitors.

Frequently asked questions

What is the LLM Readiness Checklist?

It is a 20-check Answer Engine Optimization audit that scores how likely an LLM is to cite a page when answering user prompts.

Which AI search engines does it optimize for?

ChatGPT search, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Bing Copilot — any retrieval-augmented LLM that fetches public web pages.

Is it free?

Yes. The audit, the brand-query outline generator, and the Chrome extension are free to use after signing in.

Does it work on JavaScript-rendered pages?

Yes. The Chrome extension reads the rendered DOM of the current tab, so client-side SPAs are audited as the browser sees them.