AI search visibility report · 2026-07-17
How AI assistants see ft.com
ft.com has an AI visibility score of 61/100. The site passed 17 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Content Structure and Content Freshness. The areas to improve are Citation & Source Quality and Readability.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read ft.com
Readability30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Extremely poor readability scores due to high sentence complexity and length.
Schema.org Markup74/100
Result: average. 4 of 5 tests passed.
Valid JSON-LD present but limited to WebSite; missing critical NewsArticle and Person schemas.
Authority & Trust Signals64/100
Result: average. 2 of 5 tests passed.
Strong trust pages and publication info, but lacks structured author credentials and contact details.
Citation & Source Quality28/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Very low outbound linking to external authoritative sources and lack of inline citations for claims.
Content Freshness75/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent recency and date management, though lacks explicit update/version signals.
Content Structure85/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent heading hierarchy and semantic HTML usage. Organization is clear.
Entity Definition58/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Good brand consistency and about page, but lacks Person schema for authors.
Technical Accessibility55/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Good JS independence and meta descriptions, but actively blocks AI crawlers and lacks social meta.
How ft.com can improve its AI visibility
- Unblock AI Crawlers in robots.txt (high priority)
- Simplify Sentence Structure for LLM Parsing (high priority)
- Implement NewsArticle and Person Schema (high priority)
- Enhance Author Bylines with Structured Data (medium priority)
- Add Social Meta Tags (Open Graph) (medium priority)
How ft.com compares to its competitors
- The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) — score 84/100
- Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) — score 84/100
- The Economist (economist.com) — score 44/100
- Reuters News (reuters.com) — score 88/100
- The New York Times Business (nytimes.com)