We Scanned 240 Websites for AI Search Readiness. Your SEO Score Doesn't Predict Your AI Score.

We built a free website audit tool that scores sites across SEO, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), security, performance, and accessibility. After 240 real scans from March-April 2026, one pattern jumped out: Sites that ace traditional SEO are often failing at AI search readiness. Here's the data. The 39-Point Gap Across 240 scans, here are the median scores by category: Category Median Score Accessibility 86.5 SEO 85 GEO Readiness 85 Performance 69 AEO 46 Security 30 SEO median: 85 . AEO median: 46 . That's a 39-point gap. The sites in our dataset generally have solid traditional SEO — clean title tags, meta descriptions, proper heading hierarchy, fast load times. But when you measure what AI answer engines actually need to extract and cite your content, most sites fall apart. Why SEO Score Doesn't Predict AI Citation This isn't just our data. A 2025 Chatoptic study of 1,000 queries found only a 0.034 correlation between Google search rank and Cha