AI search visibility report ยท 2026-11-04
How AI assistants see urban.org
urban.org has an AI visibility score of 61/100. The site passed 19 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Content Structure. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Readability.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read urban.org
Readability30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Content is highly academic and difficult for general audiences to parse.
Schema.org Markup74/100
Result: average. 4 of 5 tests passed.
Core technical schema is valid, but missing specific content-level markup for research.
Authority & Trust Signals46/100
Result: weak. 2 of 5 tests passed.
Strong organizational trust but weak individual author attribution and missing publication dates.
Citation & Source Quality74/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Good internal linking and claim verification, but lacks links to external authoritative primary sources.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Critical failure. No dates found in schema or visible text to verify content recency.
Content Structure88/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Solid semantic HTML usage, though heading hierarchy contains skipped levels.
Entity Definition65/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent organizational definition but lacks structured author entities.
Technical Accessibility93/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent technical setup with full AI crawler access and social meta tags.
How urban.org can improve its AI visibility
- Implement Visible Publication Dates (high priority)
- Expand Content-Specific Schema (high priority)
- Improve Content Readability Scores (medium priority)
- Enhance Author Identification (medium priority)
- Strengthen Outbound Authoritative Links (medium priority)
How urban.org compares to its competitors
- Brookings Institution (brookings.edu) โ score 64/100
- Pew Research Center (pewresearch.org)
- The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) โ score 35/100
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (cbpp.org)