AI search visibility report ยท 2026-06-12
How AI assistants see slatestarcodex.com
slatestarcodex.com has an AI visibility score of 47/100. The site passed 15 of 34 tests. Its strongest areas are Citation & Source Quality and Technical Accessibility. The areas to improve are Schema.org Markup and Content Freshness.
How ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read slatestarcodex.com
Readability60/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
High complexity with very long sentences (31 words avg), though clarity remains acceptable for the target intellectual audience.
Schema.org Markup0/100
Result: weak. 0 of 5 tests passed.
Completely absent. No JSON-LD or microdata found on the page.
Authority & Trust Signals46/100
Result: weak. 0 of 5 tests passed.
Lacks structured contact info, trust pages, and machine-readable credentials. Social proof is present via comments but not schema-marked.
Citation & Source Quality100/100
Result: strong. 4 of 4 tests passed.
Excellent use of outbound links and inline citations to authoritative sources, though lacks formal citation markup.
Content Freshness15/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Content is significantly outdated (last post 2021) with no machine-readable modification dates or update signals.
Content Structure42/100
Result: weak. 1 of 4 tests passed.
Poor hierarchy with multiple H1s and skipped levels. No semantic HTML tags (article, section) used.
Entity Definition63/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
About page exists, but lacks Organization or Person schema to formally define the 'Scott Alexander' or 'Slate Star Codex' entities.
Technical Accessibility70/100
Result: average. 3 of 4 tests passed.
Good AI crawler access and JS independence, but missing critical meta descriptions.
How slatestarcodex.com can improve its AI visibility
- Add Structured Data (JSON-LD) (high priority)
- Implement Meta Descriptions (high priority)
- Optimize Heading Hierarchy and Semantic HTML (medium priority)
- Enhance Trust Signals and E-E-A-T (medium priority)
- Clarify Content Status for LLMs (low priority)
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