"Be more visible to AI" is not actionable. To improve something you have to measure it, and to measure it you have to break it into parts. The Legible Readiness Index (LRI) scores a site from 0–100 across eight weighted dimensions. Here is what each one captures.
1. Structured data — 20%
Valid JSON-LD across Organization, Product, and FAQ. This is the single lever with proven citation lift: it tells a model what your entities are without making it guess from prose. It carries the most weight because it moves the needle the most.
2. Entity & identity consensus — 15%
One canonical description and a sameAs identity graph, identical everywhere. Grounding your brand to a verified Wikidata entity is what lets models agree you exist and what you do.
3. Citability — 15%
Atomic, extractable claims a model can quote in a single sentence. Short, standalone, data-bearing statements get cited; long marketing paragraphs do not.
4. Commerce readiness — 15%
Machine-readable price, stock, and policy. Can an agent actually complete a purchase from you, or does the trail go cold at "contact sales"?
5. Machine access & latency — 10%
Fast, render-free HTML; AI crawlers allowed; a sitemap to follow. If the content only appears after JavaScript runs, much of it never reaches the model.
6. Multilingual coverage — 10%
hreflang and per-locale parity. The sources an AI cites differ sharply by language — visibility in English says little about visibility in German or French.
7. Verification integrity — 10%
Claims backed by evidence and a clear publisher. This is the antidote to AI-washing: unsupported superlatives lower trust; sourced, specific claims raise it.
8. Freshness — 5%
Recency signals. Citation churn punishes stale data; dated, maintained content is preferred. It is weighted lightest because it is necessary but not sufficient.
Why weights matter
A single score hides trade-offs. Two sites can both score 60 — one strong on structure but stale, another fresh but ungrounded — and need completely different fixes. The weighting reflects where the evidence says effort pays off: structure and identity first, freshness last.
See where your own site stands by running the free Readiness Index.