The AEO track checks whether AI agents can read your site and extract facts: how your content is structured, whether the answer is easy to find, and whether the facts and actions on a page are available in a machine-readable form.
Each category is a group of related checks. Examples show the kind of thing that is tested, not a complete list.
An answer engine looks for the sentence that answers the question. It should be near the top and easy to lift out.
Put a one or two sentence answer straight under the h1 and use headings that match real questions.
Clear headings, landmarks, and descriptive link text tell a parser how the page is organized.
Use one h1, a logical heading order, and link text that says where the link goes.
Price, availability, and identifiers are easier to read as structured data than as text in the page.
Add Product and Offer markup with price, availability, and identifiers to product pages.
Agents need to find actions such as search, not only read text.
Describe your search and key actions with schema.org Action types and keep a proper search form on the page.
For shops, agent-friendly checkout and payment signals decide whether an agent can complete an order. They apply to pages that sell something.
Expose checkout and payment options in machine-readable form. The Agentic Commerce add-on tests this in more depth.
Scan a page or a whole site. Every scan runs the four core tracks, and the report lists each failed check with its fix.
Start a scan and open the AEO section of the report to see each check, its result and the fix.
How to start a scan→Straight answers about the AEO checks.
In the report in the app. Each check has its result, severity and fix. The public pages describe what each category covers.
From weighted checks. Every deduction ties to one check and one fix, and the four track scores combine into the overall score. How the score is built.
It makes your site easier to find, read and quote. Benchmarq measures readiness and does not promise rankings, citations or traffic.
Run a scan and see each check, its result and the fix.