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Scores & movement

I report your standing as numbers you can act on. Two of them I measure natively, on a 0–100 scale; the third is their blend. Every score carries a colour that says what it means, a benchmark that says how far to the next tier, and — once I have read you twice — a delta that says which way you're heading.

Three numbers

Your scoreboard is two native scores and one blend. Readiness is on-page: how citable your pages are when an assistant reads them — the plain mean of your individual page scores, where every page counts equally, because that is simpler and more honest than a weighting I'd have to defend or a single worst page speaking for the whole domain. Citation is off-site: the share of answers that name you when engines are actually asked. AI presence is the plain mean of the two — a single headline for where you stand.

Readiness64
Citation42
on-page
Readiness 64
how citable your pages are
+
off-site
Citation 42
cited share when asked
53

Illustrative figures. AI presence = mean(Readiness, Citation) = mean(64, 42) = 53. As more stages of the stack go live the blend widens; today it is these two.

The health bands

Any 0–100 score also reads as a colour. The same three tokens apply everywhere a score appears in the product, so a glance tells you whether a number is good, worth watching, or needs work.

80 and up Good — you're cite-ready; hold the line.
50 up to 80 Watch — readable, but signals are missing.
under 50 Act — mostly invisible to answer engines.

A lone number can still feel ambiguous, so I pair it with a benchmark: how far to the next band. A score of 80 or more simply reads strong. A score in the watch band reads N to strong — the points up to 80. A score below 50 reads N to fair — the points up to the watch band. So the 64 above reads "16 to strong", and the 42 reads "8 to fair".

Measuring change

Each scoring pass appends a snapshot — that pass's Readiness and Citation reading; AI presence is derived from the pair, not stored separately. The scoreboard then shows the delta: the point change since the previous pass.

pass 1
snapshot written
Readiness 61 · Citation 40 — no delta yet
pass 2
snapshot written
Readiness 64 · Citation 42 — delta now shows +3 / +2
Honest by design

A delta appears only once two snapshots exist — there is no backfill. On the very first pass there is no earlier measurement to subtract from, so I show the score with no movement rather than invent a baseline. The arrow you see later is a real change between two real readings.

Where each number comes from

This page is about how the scores read and move. How they are computed lives with each metric, and the snapshots that record movement are written by the background passes:

Readiness
The on-page AEO score — its dimensions, weights, and per-page reasons.
Citation
The off-site visibility score — cited share of voice when engines are asked.
Workers
The crawl and probe passes that produce each reading and append the snapshot.