AI search visibility report · 2026-06-07
How AI assistants see web.dev
web.dev has an AI visibility score of 66/100. The site passed 23 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Schema.org Markup. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Authority & Trust Signals.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read web.dev
Readability80/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Content is clear and uses appropriate sentence lengths, though technical complexity is moderate.
Schema.org Markup88/100
Result: strong. 5 of 5 tests passed.
Valid JSON-LD present for Organization and WebSite, but Article schema is incomplete (missing headline).
Authority & Trust Signals32/100
Result: weak. 1 of 5 tests passed.
Strong trust pages (Privacy/Terms) but fails on direct contact information and explicit author credentials in schema.
Citation & Source Quality72/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Good use of inline citations for internal navigation, but lacks links to external authoritative primary sources like W3C.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
While content mentions 2026 dates, there are no machine-readable publication or modification dates in schema or meta tags.
Content Structure79/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent use of semantic HTML and organization, but critically fails by having 0 H1 tags despite 49 total headings.
Entity Definition70/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Strong brand consistency and About page, but lacks Person schema for authors.
Technical Accessibility100/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Perfect technical setup with full AI crawler access, social meta tags, and JS-independent content.
How web.dev can improve its AI visibility
- Fix Heading Hierarchy (Missing H1) (high priority)
- Add Contact Information Signals (high priority)
- Expose Publication and Modification Dates (medium priority)
- Implement Author Person Schema (medium priority)
- Strengthen Primary Source Citations (low priority)
How web.dev compares to its competitors
- MDN Web Docs (developer.mozilla.org) — score 58/100
- W3Schools (w3schools.com) — score 31/100
- CSS-Tricks (DigitalOcean) (css-tricks.com) — score 74/100
- Smashing Magazine (smashingmagazine.com) — score 64/100