Methodology

The AIO Score

Agent Input Optimization. A single number that tells you how well AI agents can read, understand, and accurately represent your website.

Score Ranges

What your score means

05080100
80-100
Agent-Ready

Your site is highly optimized for AI consumption. Clean semantics, low bloat, strong metadata.

50-79
Needs Work

Some AI readability, but significant noise. Framework bloat or missing structured data.

0-49
AI-Hostile

Heavy React Tax, no semantic structure. AI agents will hallucinate or skip your content entirely.

The Formula

Three pillars of AI readability

AIO = 0.4×ReactTax + 0.35×Semantics + 0.25×Negotiation
Weight: 40%

React Tax

How much of your HTML is noise?

formula: 1 - (visible_text_bytes / total_html_bytes) × 100

Measures the ratio of useless bytes (CSS classes, JS bundles, layout divs, SVGs, tracking scripts) to actual semantic text content. A 95% React Tax means only 5% of your page is meaningful to an AI agent.

< 70% taxExcellent
70-85% taxAverage
> 85% taxPoor
Weight: 35%

Semantic Richness

Does your HTML tell a structured story?

formula: presence_score(headings, lists, tables, schema, main, article)

Evaluates the presence and quality of semantic HTML elements: heading hierarchy (H1-H6), lists, tables, JSON-LD structured data, <main>/<article> landmarks, and Open Graph metadata.

Rich schema + headingsExcellent
Basic headings onlyAverage
Flat div soupPoor
Weight: 25%

Content Negotiation

Does your server speak Markdown?

formula: supports_accept_markdown || serves_distinct_agent_payload

Tests whether your server responds differently to Accept: text/markdown or known AI User-Agents. Sites that already serve Markdown to agents get full marks. This is the frontier most sites haven't reached yet.

Serves Markdown to agentsExcellent
Robots.txt allows crawlingPartial
No agent awarenessNone
Under The Hood

Every scan checks

HTML Size vs Text
Heading Hierarchy
JSON-LD Schema
Open Graph Tags
Robots.txt Access
WAF Detection
Semantic Landmarks
Content Negotiation
Table Structure
Link Density
Script-to-Text Ratio
Meta Descriptions

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