AI search visibility report · 2026-06-06
How AI assistants see smartnews.com
smartnews.com has an AI visibility score of 30/100. The site passed 7 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Technical Accessibility and Readability. The areas to improve are Content Freshness and Schema.org Markup.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read smartnews.com
Readability50/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Flesch-Kincaid score is acceptable for Japanese context, but sentence length is extremely high due to lack of punctuation in scraped blocks.
Schema.org Markup0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 5 tests passed.
Completely lacks JSON-LD or any structured data markup, which is a critical failure for LLM indexing.
Authority & Trust Signals24/100
Result: weak. 1 of 5 tests passed.
Strong trust pages (Privacy/Terms) but lacks visible author credentials and publication dates on the homepage.
Citation & Source Quality12/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Contains external links to news articles but lacks formal inline citations or primary source attribution for its AI summaries.
Content Freshness0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
While content appears recent (referencing 2027 releases), there are no machine-readable or visible publication/modified dates.
Content Structure42/100
Result: weak. 0 of 4 tests passed.
Fails basic hierarchy tests with 0 H1 tags and poor semantic organization of sections.
Entity Definition25/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Brand consistency is high, but the lack of an About page and Person schema for authors limits entity clarity.
Technical Accessibility100/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent technical setup with full AI crawler access, meta descriptions, and social meta tags.
How smartnews.com can improve its AI visibility
- Implement Structured Data (JSON-LD) (high priority)
- Fix Heading Hierarchy (high priority)
- Establish Entity Authority via About Page (medium priority)
- Add Visible Publication Dates (medium priority)
- Improve Source Attribution for AI Summaries (medium priority)
How smartnews.com compares to its competitors
- NewsPicks (newspicks.com) — score 66/100
- LINE NEWS (line.me) — score 42/100
- Yahoo! JAPAN News (yahoo.co.jp) — score 49/100
- Gunosy (gunosy.co.jp) — score 38/100