AI search visibility report · 2026-10-26
How AI assistants see csis.org
csis.org has an AI visibility score of 49/100. The site passed 14 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Citation & Source Quality. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Readability.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read csis.org
Readability30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Extremely long sentences and poor Flesch-Kincaid scores make content hard to process.
Schema.org Markup48/100
Result: weak. 3 of 5 tests passed.
JSON-LD is present but lacks content-specific schemas and required properties.
Authority & Trust Signals40/100
Result: weak. 1 of 5 tests passed.
Contact info is present but trust pages and author credentials lack structured data.
Citation & Source Quality72/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Inline citations are present, but outbound links to authoritative .gov or .edu sources are missing.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
No machine-readable dates found in schema or meta tags despite visible text dates.
Content Structure52/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Semantic HTML is good, but heading hierarchy is broken and paragraph structure is poor.
Entity Definition58/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
About page exists, but lack of Person and Organization schema hinders entity clarity.
Technical Accessibility88/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent crawler access and JS independence, with minor meta description length issues.
How csis.org can improve its AI visibility
- Fix Heading Hierarchy and H1 Duplication (high priority)
- Reduce Sentence Length for Clarity (high priority)
- Implement Content-Specific Schema Markup (high priority)
- Enhance Author Credentials with Schema (medium priority)
- Expose Publication and Modification Dates (medium priority)
How csis.org compares to its competitors
- Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org) — score 63/100
- Brookings Institution (brookings.edu) — score 64/100
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (carnegieendowment.org) — score 39/100
- Atlantic Council (atlanticcouncil.org) — score 65/100
- The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) — score 35/100