Readable vs Cited
Two different questions, measured separately: can an AI engine read your page, and does it actually cite you?
What it is
Two measured numbers side by side. “Readable” is whether a non-JavaScript crawler can read enough of your raw HTML to quote it. “Cited” is your measured Answer Share — whether engines actually return you as a source.
When to use it
When your technical health looks fine but citations are not arriving, or when you want to know whether a visibility problem is an access problem or a substance problem.
Step by step
- 1Open Analyze and find the Readable vs Cited panel.
- 2Readable low: engines cannot read the page. Fix that first — nothing downstream can work until they can.
- 3Readable high, Cited low: they can read you and are choosing not to quote you. That is a content and authority problem, not a technical one.
What you will see
Two measured figures kept apart, each showing “not measured” rather than a number when it has not been measured.
Measured, never manufactured
These are never merged into one flattering percentage. Being readable does not mean being cited, and a tool that blends the two is selling you a number that looks like visibility and is not. We render them as two numbers and say plainly that one does not imply the other.
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What AI actually quotedThe exact sentences AI engines lifted from your pages, with the engines that used them and how prominently they ranked.