SCORING METHODOLOGY · HOW WE SCORE
Every check is benchmarked to public standards.
12 dimensions, each benchmarked to public standards. The surface-level signals can be partly checked with public tools like Google, W3C and SSL Labs — but the judgment of whether AI actually cites you comes from GeoWeb's own weighting model.
THE PUBLIC BASIS
W3C · IETF · WHATWG · Google · Microsoft · schema.org · OWASP · SSL Labs…
From recognized standards bodies & vendors
The surface-level signals in every dimension are benchmarked against these bodies' public specs and tools.
HOW GEOWEB INTEGRATES
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actionable report
One pass over all 12 dimensions, distilled into a single GEO score and a fix-priority order — plus the AI-citation assessment public tools don't cover.
12 DIMENSIONS × PUBLIC STANDARDS
Every item, laid open
Items marked "Partly verifiable" — public tools check the surface signals; GeoWeb's score layers weighting and deeper judgment on top. Items marked "GeoWeb proprietary" have no single public-tool equivalent.
| Dimension | What we check | Benchmarked public tool / standard | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| SESEO technical | Title, meta, canonical, OG, viewport, lang, image alt, link structure | W3C HTML Checker · Rich Results Test | Partly verifiable |
| SDStructured data | JSON-LD / Microdata / RDFa completeness (Organization, FAQ, Product, Article…) | Rich Results Test · Schema Markup Validator | Partly verifiable |
| CTContent citability | 40–60-word answer blocks, definition sentences, structured lists/tables, statistic & source citation patterns | — No single public tool | GeoWeb proprietary |
| EAE-E-A-T authority | Author info, publish/update dates, trust pages, social proof, credential signals | Trustpilot | Partly verifiable |
| SMSemantic structure | H1 uniqueness, H1–H6 hierarchy, semantic HTML5 elements, content/HTML ratio | W3C Validator · axe DevTools | Partly verifiable |
| FQFAQ / Q&A readiness | FAQPage schema, visible Q&A content, answer quality (20–100 words) | Rich Results Test | Partly verifiable |
| SZPerformance & crawl budget | HTML < 2MB, load performance, resource load priority | PageSpeed Insights | Partly verifiable |
| ACAI crawler accessibility | robots.txt openness to GPTBot / ClaudeBot / PerplexityBot etc., sitemap, IndexNow | Google Search Console · Bing Webmaster Tools | Partly verifiable |
| AEAEO readiness | Answer-first paragraph structure, featured-snippet eligibility, step content, comparison tables | — No single public tool | GeoWeb proprietary |
| SCSnippet control | meta robots, nosnippet, max-snippet, data-nosnippet | Google Search Console | Partly verifiable |
| TSTransport security | HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options | SSL Labs · SecurityHeaders.com | Partly verifiable |
| LNLanguage naturalness | Boilerplate density, syntactic variety, specificity, domain-term ratio, human vs LLM patterns | — Proprietary judgment model | GeoWeb proprietary |
AUXILIARY DIMENSION · NOT IN THE SCORE
Agent friendliness
This measures how open your site is to AI agents (not search crawlers). It does not affect the 12-dimension GEO score above, but it reflects how discoverable, readable and connectable you are to autonomous agents on the agentic web.
What we check
llms.txt, .well-known/* (ai-plugin / MCP server-card / agent-skills), AI-bot robots, Content-Signal, IndexNow
Benchmarked tool / standard
Type
Partly verifiable
Not just a score — we tell you what to fix first
Benchmarking public standards is the baseline; distilling 12 dimensions into one priority-ordered fix path, then adding the proprietary AI-citation layer — that's what GeoWeb does.
ON SCORING
GeoWeb benchmarks the public standards and tools above, but applies its own dimension-weighting model and continuously references the latest technical specs and documentation from each engine. So when a single item doesn't match a given third-party tool exactly, that reflects a difference in scoring perspective and weighting — we judge from the angle of "will AI actually cite you", rather than a mechanical match against any one metric.