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Benchmark report

The State of AI Visibility

We audited 583 B2B websites for how visible, structured, and citable they are to AI answer engines. The median scores 74/100. Here is where the average site wins, where it falls short, and what it means for being cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

583

B2B sites analyzed

74/100

Median AI-readiness score

49–91

Score range

86/100

Top-decile threshold (p90)

By audit dimension

Where sites win and lose

Most sites have the basics covered: bot access & control plane averages 98/100. The gap is in the machine-readable layer: structured data averages just 48/100, the single weakest dimension and the one that most directly decides whether an AI engine can parse and cite you correctly.

Structured Data48/100
Content Freshness & Authority61/100
Entity Clarity69/100
Trust & Security71/100
Content Answerability78/100
HTML Extractability & Main Content Clarity83/100
Off-site Presence & Mentions85/100
Fetch, Render, and URL Integrity88/100
Bot Access & Control Plane98/100

How the data is collected

Methodology

Figures are aggregated from automated AI-readiness audits of 583 public B2B websites, scored 0–100 across crawl access, structured data, entity clarity, content answerability, and off-site presence. Each domain contributes its most recent audit. Data as of . The live, interactive view and the per-brand leaderboard live in the audit app: app.nyman.media/insights.