# GeoXylia > Run a free GEO audit. See how AI search engines discover, evaluate, and cite your content across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. ## GEO Audit: Is Your Site Ready for Generative Engine Optimization? Run a free GEO audit and see what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude need in order to discover, evaluate, and quote your content — measured structurally, not guessed. Run Free GEO Audit - - Built on proven AI citation research 55+Engine Checks11Industries4AI Engines<60sAudit Time The AI Visibility Gap 4% ## Only 4% of #1 Google rankings get cited by AI. According to Princeton GEO research (Aggarwal et al., 2024), ranking #1 does not guarantee AI citations. 38% of searches trigger AI Overviews[1] 30% more citations with 3+ statistics[2] 41% citation lift from expert quotes[3] 0.664 brand-mention correlation with AI visibility[4] [1–4] Aggarwal et al., Princeton GEO study (arXiv:2311.09735), 2024 — visibility gains measured across generative search responses. // WHAT IS A GEO AUDIT ## Generative engine optimization starts with knowing where you stand A GEO audit measures how well AI answer engines can find, understand, and cite your content. Unlike traditional SEO audits that check Google ranking factors like backlinks and keywords, a GEO audit focuses on the signals that matter to generative engines: schema markup, entity consistency, factual density, answer-first structure, and llms.txt. The term generative engine optimization was introduced in a November 2023 Princeton study that showed targeted optimization can lift AI visibility by up to 40%. Since then, GEO has become its own discipline. Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude each have distinct citation behaviors. A GEO audit tests all five. Traditional SEO and GEO are not the same thing. Only 38% of AI citations come from pages in Google's organic top 10 (Ahrefs, Mar 2026). You can rank number one on Google and be invisible to AI engines. That is the gap a GEO audit measures. Read the full GEO guide →Compare GEO platforms → // HOW THE AUDIT WORKS ## 60 seconds. No credit card. Three steps from URL to actionable fix list. 01 ## Enter any URL Paste your URL into the audit bar. GeoXylia renders your page in a headless browser, just like AI systems do. 02 ## Citation readiness analysis We measure how quotable your content is: passage-level structure, unique and checkable claims, entity clarity, and the authority signals AI retrieval weighs when it selects a source. 03 ## Get your score + fix list Receive a 0-100 GEO score, a per-dimension breakdown, and prioritized recommendations ranked by impact. Start fixing within minutes. // WHAT YOU GET ## A complete GEO diagnostic, not a surface scan GeoXylia scores the AI-retrieval signals that traditional SEO tools do not measure at all. ## Per-engine citation report See exactly which engines cite you, which do not, and how your citation context compares to competitors. ## 13 diagnostic dimensions Foundation tier (technical, accessibility, readability) and Visibility tier (citability, entity, brand, content, platform). Each independently scored. ## Prioritized fix instructions Every finding comes with rootCause and solution. We tell you what to fix first, second, and third. Based on our 476-site benchmark dataset across 10 verticals. The median site scores 75/100, and the top decile starts at 81. See our full methodology and compare features. // THE 7 FACTORS ## What a GEO audit actually measures - Brand search volume: How often users search for your brand on traditional search engines, which correlates with AI citation likelihood. - - Entity consistency: Whether your name, logo, and description are uniform across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Crunchbase, and social profiles. - - Information density: The ratio of factual claims, statistics, and named entities per 100 words of content. - - FAQ schema presence: Pages with FAQPage markup receive roughly 40% higher citation weighting from ChatGPT. - - Content recency: Perplexity cites content published in the last 30 days at an 82% rate. Stale content gets passed over. - - Answer-first structure: Content that answers a question in the first 2-4 sentences is 72.4% more likely to be cited by ChatGPT. - - Third-party validation: Citations from authoritative external sources (research papers, industry reports, government data) lift citation rates by 37%. - Read our GEO for SaaS guide → // FAQ ## Frequently asked questions What is a GEO audit? - - - - A GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) audit evaluates whether AI answer engines can find, understand, and cite your site. It measures citation readiness factors like schema markup, entity consistency, factual density, FAQPage structure, and llms.txt. These are the signals that determine whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude cite you in generated answers. 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