AI search visibility report ยท 2026-06-07
How AI assistants see medium.com
medium.com has an AI visibility score of 26/100. The site passed 4 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Readability. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Schema.org Markup.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read medium.com
Readability50/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
The text is concise but the Flesch-Kincaid score is low due to the specific phrasing used in the hero section.
Schema.org Markup0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 5 tests passed.
No JSON-LD schema was detected in the provided HTML.
Authority & Trust Signals8/100
Result: weak. 0 of 5 tests passed.
The homepage lacks visible trust pages and publication dates, though it provides a press email.
Citation & Source Quality18/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Minimal external citations or outbound links to authoritative sources on the landing page.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
No publication or modification dates are present in the metadata or visible text.
Content Structure30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
The page lacks an H1 and semantic HTML elements like <main> or <section> in the rendered output.
Entity Definition48/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
While an About page link exists, the lack of Organization schema hinders entity definition for LLMs.
Technical Accessibility60/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent social meta and description, but robots.txt blocks major AI crawlers and content is JS-heavy.
How medium.com can improve its AI visibility
- Add Core JSON-LD Schema (high priority)
- Allow AI Crawler Access (high priority)
- Fix Heading Hierarchy (high priority)
- Reduce JS Dependency (medium priority)
- Improve Trust Signals Visibility (medium priority)
How medium.com compares to its competitors
- Substack (substack.com)
- WordPress.com (wordpress.com) โ score 69/100
- Ghost (ghost.org) โ score 74/100
- LinkedIn Articles (linkedin.com)