AEO report for

stripe.com

Chef’s kiss. AI can’t look away.

Your structure is solid, but language models can’t extract clean answers from your content yet.

42

/100

Overall AEO Score

Findable

Good

Quotable

Poor

Understandable

Average

Trustworthy

Poor

Below average a score of 42 puts this site in roughly the bottom 30% of sites weve scanned. Most well-optimized sites land between 6580.

Findable

15 / 25

HTTPS enabled

0 / 7

Serve your site over HTTPS. Most hosts enable this by default — check your domain settings or hosting dashboard.

robots.txt present

0 / 7

Add a /robots.txt file to your site root. Make sure it doesn't block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot.

sitemap.xml present

3.5 / 7

Add a /sitemap.xml listing all your key pages. Submit it in Google Search Console → Sitemaps.

Canonical URL set

0 / 7

Add <link rel="canonical" href="..."> to the <head> of every page to prevent duplicate content issues.

AI crawlers allowed

0 / 4

Check your robots.txt — remove any Disallow rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

Findable

15 / 25

HTTPS enabled

0 / 7

Serve your site over HTTPS. Most hosts enable this by default — check your domain settings or hosting dashboard.

robots.txt present

0 / 7

Add a /robots.txt file to your site root. Make sure it doesn't block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot.

sitemap.xml present

3.5 / 7

Add a /sitemap.xml listing all your key pages. Submit it in Google Search Console → Sitemaps.

Canonical URL set

0 / 7

Add <link rel="canonical" href="..."> to the <head> of every page to prevent duplicate content issues.

AI crawlers allowed

0 / 4

Check your robots.txt — remove any Disallow rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended.

Trustworthy

13 / 25

Internal links present

0 / 5

Add 3–5 contextual internal links within each key page pointing to related content, your pricing page, or core product pages.

External citation links

4 / 8

Link out to credible external sources (research, press, industry sites) from your content pages.

llms.txt file present (bonus)

0 / 12

Create a /llms.txt file describing your site for AI systems. Bonus check — adds points but won't hurt your score if missing.

Trustworthy

13 / 25

Internal links present

0 / 5

Add 3–5 contextual internal links within each key page pointing to related content, your pricing page, or core product pages.

External citation links

4 / 8

Link out to credible external sources (research, press, industry sites) from your content pages.

llms.txt file present (bonus)

0 / 12

Create a /llms.txt file describing your site for AI systems. Bonus check — adds points but won't hurt your score if missing.

Understandable

15 / 25

Single H1 with reasonable length

2 / 5

Add exactly one descriptive H1 to every page. Don't use your logo or brand name as the H1 — describe what the page is about.

Heading hierarchy is clean

1 / 5

Structure headings as H1 → H2 → H3. Don't skip levels or use headings just for styling.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

0 / 5

Add JSON-LD schema to key pages. Start with Organization on your homepage, then Product or Article on relevant pages.

Open Graph tags

3 / 5

Add og:title, og:description, og:image, and og:url to every page's <head>.

Image alt text coverage

2 / 5

Add descriptive alt text to all meaningful images. Keep it under 125 characters and describe what the image shows.

Understandable

15 / 25

Single H1 with reasonable length

2 / 5

Add exactly one descriptive H1 to every page. Don't use your logo or brand name as the H1 — describe what the page is about.

Heading hierarchy is clean

1 / 5

Structure headings as H1 → H2 → H3. Don't skip levels or use headings just for styling.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

0 / 5

Add JSON-LD schema to key pages. Start with Organization on your homepage, then Product or Article on relevant pages.

Open Graph tags

3 / 5

Add og:title, og:description, og:image, and og:url to every page's <head>.

Image alt text coverage

2 / 5

Add descriptive alt text to all meaningful images. Keep it under 125 characters and describe what the image shows.

Quotable

12 / 25

Meta description (50–160 chars)

0 / 8

Write a unique 150–160 character meta description for every key page. Describe what the page does, not your brand tagline.

Substantial text content

1 / 8

Add at least 300 words of readable body text to key pages. AI can't quote pages that are mostly images or short copy.

Content freshness signals

4 / 9

Add a visible "Last updated" date to key pages, or include date metadata in your page schema.

FAQ-style content detected (bonus)

4 / 9

Add a FAQ section to key pages with question/answer pairs. Bonus check — adds points but won't hurt your score if missing.

Quotable

12 / 25

Meta description (50–160 chars)

0 / 8

Write a unique 150–160 character meta description for every key page. Describe what the page does, not your brand tagline.

Substantial text content

1 / 8

Add at least 300 words of readable body text to key pages. AI can't quote pages that are mostly images or short copy.

Content freshness signals

4 / 9

Add a visible "Last updated" date to key pages, or include date metadata in your page schema.

FAQ-style content detected (bonus)

4 / 9

Add a FAQ section to key pages with question/answer pairs. Bonus check — adds points but won't hurt your score if missing.

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