AI search visibility report ยท 2026-10-24
How AI assistants see forbes.com
forbes.com has an AI visibility score of 56/100. The site passed 17 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Schema.org Markup. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Readability.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read forbes.com
Readability30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Extremely poor readability scores due to lack of sentence breaks in the scraped content.
Schema.org Markup74/100
Result: average. 4 of 5 tests passed.
Valid Organization schema present, but missing critical content-level schemas for a news site.
Authority & Trust Signals52/100
Result: weak. 2 of 5 tests passed.
Strong contact and trust pages, but lacks author credentials and machine-readable publication dates.
Citation & Source Quality72/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
High volume of links but lacks citations to authoritative external sources like government or academic sites.
Content Freshness15/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Visible update signals exist, but lack of machine-readable dates prevents high scoring.
Content Structure56/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Good use of semantic sections, but failed heading hierarchy and poor paragraph structure.
Entity Definition60/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Organization is well-defined, but individual authors are not identified via schema.
Technical Accessibility75/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Good meta tags and JS independence, but blocks major AI crawlers.
How forbes.com can improve its AI visibility
- Fix Heading Hierarchy (high priority)
- Allow AI Crawler Access (high priority)
- Improve Sentence Structure (high priority)
- Add Content-Specific Schemas (medium priority)
- Enhance Author Identification (medium priority)
- Implement Machine-Readable Dates (medium priority)
How forbes.com compares to its competitors
- Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) โ score 84/100
- The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) โ score 84/100
- Fortune (fortune.com)
- Business Insider (businessinsider.com)
- CNBC (cnbc.com) โ score 86/100