AI search visibility report ยท 2026-08-21
How AI assistants see economist.com
economist.com has an AI visibility score of 44/100. The site passed 12 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Citation & Source Quality. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Authority & Trust Signals.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read economist.com
Readability35/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Extremely poor readability scores due to fragmented sentence structures in the homepage layout.
Schema.org Markup54/100
Result: weak. 3 of 5 tests passed.
JSON-LD is present and valid, but lacks the core schemas (Organization/Article) necessary for news entities.
Authority & Trust Signals20/100
Result: weak. 1 of 5 tests passed.
Strong trust pages (privacy/terms) but lacks visible contact info and author credentials on the homepage.
Citation & Source Quality62/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Good use of internal/inline links, but lacks external citations to authoritative third-party sources.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
No machine-readable publication or modification dates found in the analyzed scope.
Content Structure60/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Semantic tags are used well, but the heading hierarchy is broken (no H1) and paragraph structure is fragmented.
Entity Definition40/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Lacks a dedicated About page link and author identification markup.
Technical Accessibility80/100
Result: strong. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent social meta and JS independence, but actively blocks AI crawlers.
How economist.com can improve its AI visibility
- Allow LLM Crawler Access (high priority)
- Fix Heading Hierarchy and H1 Absence (high priority)
- Implement Core and Content Schemas (high priority)
- Enhance Author Identification and Credentials (medium priority)
- Optimize Paragraph Structure for Semantic Flow (medium priority)
How economist.com compares to its competitors
- Financial Times (ft.com) โ score 61/100
- The Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) โ score 84/100
- The New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Bloomberg News (bloomberg.com) โ score 84/100