AI search visibility report · 2026-10-27
How AI assistants see americanprogress.org
americanprogress.org has an AI visibility score of 62/100. The site passed 20 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Content Freshness and Citation & Source Quality. The areas to improve are Readability and Content Structure.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read americanprogress.org
Readability30/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Extremely poor readability scores due to excessive sentence lengths and high complexity.
Schema.org Markup68/100
Result: average. 4 of 5 tests passed.
Core technical schema is present and valid, but specific content-level schemas (Article, Person) are missing.
Authority & Trust Signals66/100
Result: average. 3 of 5 tests passed.
Strong publication history and trust pages, but lacks detailed author credentials and physical contact data in schema.
Citation & Source Quality74/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent use of inline citations for claims, but lacks links to high-authority external domains like .gov or .edu.
Content Freshness75/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Content is extremely fresh with updates as recent as 4 days ago, though lacks a formal changelog.
Content Structure55/100
Result: weak. 2 of 4 tests passed.
Semantic HTML is good, but the heading hierarchy is broken with 0 H1s and skipped levels. Paragraphs are too short.
Entity Definition60/100
Result: average. 2 of 4 tests passed.
About page is present, but the lack of Person schema for experts and Organization schema on the About page weakens entity clarity.
Technical Accessibility70/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent AI crawler access and JS independence, but missing a meta description.
How americanprogress.org can improve its AI visibility
- Fix Heading Hierarchy and Add H1 (high priority)
- Add Meta Description (high priority)
- Improve Sentence Structure and Readability (high priority)
- Implement Content and Person Schemas (medium priority)
- Complete Contact Information Details (medium priority)
How americanprogress.org compares to its competitors
- Brookings Institution (brookings.edu) — score 64/100
- The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) — score 35/100
- Economic Policy Institute (epi.org)
- Cato Institute (cato.org) — score 65/100
- Urban Institute (urban.org) — score 61/100