Public Audit Report

aeo-tools.com

https://aeo-tools.com/
Scanned on July 28, 2026
63
Overall
C
65
SEO
53/84 passed
63
AEO
30/46 passed
60
GEO
33/57 passed
116
Passed
70
Failed
186
Total Checks
Needs Work
Rating

Quick Wins — Top 5 Issues to Fix

SEO — 65/100 (31 issues)

Failed Checks (31)

  • ✗Missing meta descriptionmeta
  • ✗Title-H1 alignment: 0% word overlap — title and H1 should share key termscontent
  • ✗Heading hierarchy has gaps (e.g. H1 to H3 without H2)content
  • ✗49% long sentences (>20 words) — break up for readabilitycontent
  • ✗Missing og:title — poor social sharingsocial
  • ✗Missing og:descriptionsocial
  • ✗Missing og:image — social shares will lack visualssocial
  • ✗Missing og:url — social platforms may use wrong URLsocial
  • ✗Missing og:type — defaults to "website"social
  • ✗Missing og:site_name — helps brand recognition in sharessocial
  • ✗Missing twitter:card meta tagsocial
  • ✗Missing twitter:titlesocial
  • ✗Missing twitter:descriptionsocial
  • ✗Missing twitter:imagesocial
  • ✗Missing canonical tag — risk of duplicate contenttechnical
  • ✗No favicon detectedtechnical
  • ✗No hreflang tags — add if targeting multiple languagestechnical
  • ✗No Strict-Transport-Security headersecurity
  • ✗Missing X-Content-Type-Options headersecurity
  • ✗No Content-Security-Policy header — XSS risksecurity
  • ✗No About page link detected — add for credibilitytrust
  • ✗No JSON-LD structured data foundschema
  • ✗No /robots.txt found — create one to guide crawlerstechnical
  • ✗No /sitemap.xml found — create one for better crawlingtechnical
  • ✗No Web App Manifest — add for installability and modern web signalstechnical
  • ✗Only 0 first-person pronouns — add personal experience (E-E-A-T)content
  • ✗No max-image-preview:large — add to robots meta for Google Discovermeta
  • ✗Missing X-Frame-Options — clickjacking risksecurity
  • ✗No Referrer-Policy header — may leak URL datasecurity
  • ✗No Permissions-Policy — restrict camera/mic/geo accesssecurity
  • ✗No RSS/Atom feed in <head> — add for content discovery by aggregators and AItechnical

Passed Checks (53)

  • ✓Title tag found: "aeo-tools.com — A Field Guide to Answer Engine Optimization"meta
  • ✓Title length: 59 characters (optimal)meta
  • ✓Viewport meta tag found (mobile-friendly)meta
  • ✓UTF-8 charset declaredmeta
  • ✓Language attribute set on HTML tagmeta
  • ✓No meta refresh redirect (good)meta
  • ✓No robots meta tag (default: index, follow)meta
  • ✓Single H1 tag foundcontent
  • ✓5 H2 tags foundcontent
  • ✓1343 words on page (good content depth)content
  • ✓Readability: 46 (moderate — aim for 60+)content
  • ✓No images found on pagecontent
  • ✓No images to check for dimensionscontent
  • ✓No below-fold images to lazy loadcontent
  • ✓3 internal links foundcontent
  • ✓28 external links foundcontent
  • ✓No empty href attributes foundcontent
  • ✓All link texts are descriptive (no "click here" or "read more")content
  • ✓HTTPS enabledtechnical
  • ✓Compression: brtechnical
  • ✓URL length: 22 chars (good)technical
  • ✓URL uses hyphens or no separators (good)technical
  • ✓No deprecated HTML tags foundtechnical
  • ✓Text-to-HTML ratio: 19.0% (good)technical
  • ✓Inline CSS: 12.9 KB (acceptable)performance
  • ✓Inline JS: 10.6 KB (acceptable)performance
  • ✓No external scriptsperformance
  • ✓Font preload/preconnect found — faster font loadingperformance
  • ✓Cache-Control: max-age=14400performance
  • ✓Contact page/email link foundtrust
  • ✓Privacy Policy link foundtrust
  • ✓Terms of Service link foundtrust
  • ✓Author byline foundtrust
  • ✓<!DOCTYPE html> declaredtechnical
  • ✓No mixed content — all resources use HTTPStechnical
  • ✓font-display: swap detected — prevents invisible textperformance
  • ✓Viewport includes width=device-width (responsive)meta
  • ✓All 3 checked internal links are workingcontent
  • ✓0% nofollow links (0/31) — good link equity flowcontent
  • ✓All 28 target="_blank" links have rel="noopener"security
  • ✓1 resource hint(s) (dns-prefetch/preconnect) — faster loadingperformance
  • ✓H1 length: 63 characters (optimal)content
  • ✓Viewport allows zoom (good for accessibility)accessibility
  • ✓38 links on page (within limit)content
  • ✓DOM size: ~325 elements (good)performance
  • ✓No snippet blocking detected (good — content is fully accessible)technical
  • ✓No render-blocking scripts in head (good)performance
  • ✓0 third-party script domain(s) (acceptable)performance
  • ✓ARIA landmarks present: main, navaccessibility
  • ✓All 1 form input(s) have labels or aria-labelsaccessibility
  • ✓No duplicate IDs found (10 unique IDs)accessibility
  • ✓No iframes on pagesecurity
  • ✓All 5 H2 sections have sufficient depth (avg 224 words)content
AEO — 63/100 (16 issues)

Failed Checks (15)

  • ✗No structured data — AI systems struggle to categorize your pagediscoverability
  • ✗Missing meta description or og:description — unclear topic for AIdiscoverability
  • ✗No definition lists (<dl>) — great for term/value pairsdiscoverability
  • ✗No FAQ/Q&A section found — Q&A content helps AI extraction (FAQ schema markup is optional since Google retired FAQ rich results in May 2026)structure
  • ✗No question-style headings — try "How to...", "What is..."structure
  • ✗No data tables — tables help AI compare and cite datastructure
  • ✗No numbered steps or ordered lists — add for "how to" AI answersstructure
  • ✗Few key-value patterns — use "**Label:** value" format for AIstructure
  • ✗No date information — AI prefers fresh, dated contentcitation
  • ✗No Organization schema — AI may not recognize your brandcitation
  • ✗Only 2/5 E-E-A-T signals — add about, contact, author infocitation
  • ✗Avg 22 words/sentence — simplify for AI and voicevoice
  • ✗Few Q&A blocks — add question headings followed by answer paragraphsvoice
  • ✗No video content — multimedia increases AI engagement and citation ratediscoverability
  • ✗No <details>/<summary> elements — use for expandable Q&A contentstructure

Passed Checks (30)

  • ✓1343 words in HTML — good content for AI parsingdiscoverability
  • ✓Clean URL structurediscoverability
  • ✓6 semantic HTML5 elements founddiscoverability
  • ✓7 content sections — well-structured for AIdiscoverability
  • ✓45 named entities found — helps AI understand contextdiscoverability
  • ✓3 internal links — good topic cluster signaldiscoverability
  • ✓2 lists found — structured content for AIstructure
  • ✓Concise answer paragraphs after headings — great for AI citationstructure
  • ✓51% short sentences — easy for AI to extractstructure
  • ✓100% concise paragraphs — scannable for AIstructure
  • ✓Avg 433 words/section — sufficient depthstructure
  • ✓Author information found — builds E-E-A-Tcitation
  • ✓Statistics and data found in content — highly citablecitation
  • ✓Source citations found — increases AI trustcitation
  • ✓28 external links — references authoritative sourcescitation
  • ✓Content references 2026/2025 — fresh contentcitation
  • ✓Topic focus: 100% — title keywords found in contentcitation
  • ✓25 answer-box-ready paragraphs found after headingscitation
  • ✓30 conversational words — good for AI summariesvoice
  • ✓First paragraph is snippet-ready (20-60 words)voice
  • ✓Active voice dominant (8% passive) — AI-friendlyvoice
  • ✓Pronoun density: 2.2% — engaging, user-focusedvoice
  • ✓Summary/conclusion section found — AI can extract key pointsvoice
  • ✓7 H2/H3 headings — good content structure for AIvoice
  • ✓No AI-blocking robots directives — AI crawlers can access contentdiscoverability
  • ✓Freshness signal found (Last-Modified header or dateModified)citation
  • ✓AI search crawlers not blocked in robots.txt (8/8 allowed)discoverability
  • ✓Content updated within 90 days — AI engines strongly prefer fresh contentcitation
  • ✓Table of Contents detected — helps AI navigate long contentstructure
  • ✓Statistics with source attribution — highly credible for AI citationcitation
GEO — 60/100 (24 issues)

Failed Checks (24)

  • ✗Few question headings — add Q&A headings for AI Overviewoverview
  • ✗Title and H1 don't align — confusing for AI topic matchingoverview
  • ✗No step-by-step content — add numbered guides for AIoverview
  • ✗58% optimal paragraphs — aim for 20-80 words per paragraphoverview
  • ✗No author schema — add for AI trust signalsauthority
  • ✗Incomplete brand identity — add og:site_name + Organization schemaauthority
  • ✗No expert quotes — add professional opinions for credibilityauthority
  • ✗No examples or case studies — add real-world examplesauthority
  • ✗No links to authoritative sources — cite Google, Schema.org, etc.authority
  • ✗No images — add visuals with descriptive ALT textformat
  • ✗No BreadcrumbList schema — add for better AI contextformat
  • ✗Only one list type — use both <ul> and <ol> for content varietyformat
  • ✗Single-perspective content — add "on the other hand..." for balanceformat
  • ✗No entity Schema types — add Person, Product, or Organization schemasemantic
  • ✗No <time> elements — wrap dates in <time datetime="...">semantic
  • ✗Few sections have subtopics — add H3 subheadings for depthsemantic
  • ✗Incomplete Open Graph tags — AI uses these for contexttechnical
  • ✗No canonical URL — AI may index duplicate versionstechnical
  • ✗Only 0 Schema type(s) — add more for AI contexttechnical
  • ✗First 200 words lack topic keywords — AI may skip your content for extractionoverview
  • ✗Only 3 data points — adding statistics measurably boosts generative-engine visibility (GEO study, arXiv:2311.09735)authority
  • ✗Author lacks credentials — anonymous content is a GEO penaltyauthority
  • ✗No authoritative sameAs links — add Wikipedia/Wikidata/LinkedIn URIs to schema for entity disambiguationauthority
  • ✗Possible keyword stuffing: "tools" at 4.3% density (38×) — diversify vocabularyauthority

Passed Checks (33)

  • ✓Definition-style content found — featured snippet candidateoverview
  • ✓Content freshness signals detectedoverview
  • ✓Comprehensive content (1343 words, 5 sections)overview
  • ✓3-level heading hierarchy — deep content structureoverview
  • ✓Source citations found — increases AI trustauthority
  • ✓4/5 trust signals foundauthority
  • ✓Original research/data signals foundauthority
  • ✓6 industry terms used — domain expertise signalauthority
  • ✓28 unique external domains — diverse sourcesauthority
  • ✓Comparison content detected — AI loves comparingformat
  • ✓Summary/conclusion section foundformat
  • ✓Data visualization elements found (tables/charts)format
  • ✓3/6 formatting types used — rich contentformat
  • ✓Actionable advice found — AI prefers practical contentformat
  • ✓Conclusion/recommendation found — helps AI provide answersformat
  • ✓6/14 semantic HTML5 elements — deep semantic structuresemantic
  • ✓100% title keywords in first 200 words — good prominencesemantic
  • ✓34 contextual links — good cross-referencingsemantic
  • ✓Content categorization found — clear topic classificationsemantic
  • ✓Mobile-friendly (viewport set)technical
  • ✓HTTPS secure — trusted by AI systemstechnical
  • ✓Page size: 43 KB — reasonabletechnical
  • ✓Page allows AI indexing (no noindex/nosnippet)technical
  • ✓HTML lang="en" set (add og:locale for completeness)technical
  • ✓3 ARIA landmarks found — good accessibility for AItechnical
  • ✓1343 words — sufficient depth for AI analysisoverview
  • ✓Definition + list combo — strong featured snippet candidateoverview
  • ✓No snippet restrictions — AI can freely extract content (good)technical
  • ✓3/6 question types (5W1H) in headings — comprehensiveoverview
  • ✓Link anchor texts are descriptive — good AI context signalsemantic
  • ✓No hidden-text cloaking patterns detectedtrust
  • ✓Healthy content-to-chrome ratio (~18% boilerplate)overview
  • ✓All tested AI crawlers can access the page (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)authority

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