This is the combined readiness check: it runs the generative, answer-engine, structural and trust dimensions in a single pass and produces one number for all of them. That breadth makes it the best single starting point of the AI tools — not because it goes deeper than the specialised ones, but because it tells you which of them is worth running next.
Here is where that sits. The median SeoMods score is 59/100, which ranks it 13 of the 25 tools with a published benchmark by median. The ranking runs over the 25 tools on the main benchmark page; 1st is the highest median. The middle half of results falls between 37 and 74 — a band 37 points wide. That is wide: in this sample sites’ scores diverge markedly on this measure.
How the scores are distributed
An average on its own misleads. The chart below splits all 5,268 scans into five score bands, totalling 100%. Most results sit in the middle bands, which means sites differ here by degree rather than by whether they bothered at all.
- 0–19
- 20–39
- 40–59
- 60–79
- 80–100
| Score band | GEO & AEO |
|---|---|
| 0–19 | 10% · 553 |
| 20–39 | 15% · 805 |
| 40–59 | 24% · 1,285 |
| 60–79 | 34% · 1,808 |
| 80–100 | 16% · 817 |
| Total runs | 5,268 |
The grade mix
The same data as letters: A+ 95–100, A 85–94, B 75–84, C 65–74, D 50–64 and F below 50.
Where does my score sit?
Because this score averages several disciplines, a middling result is ambiguous by design: it can mean everything is mediocre or that two areas are excellent and one is broken. The category breakdown below is therefore more informative than the number above it. Use the score to decide whether to look, and the categories to decide where.
| Tool | P10 | P25 | Median | P75 | P90 | Mean | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEO & AEO | 19 | 37 | 59 | 74 | 83 | 55.5 | 10 | 100 |
A score from the GEO & AEO Readiness Checker can be read against the five values below. All of them are calculated from the scans in this benchmark: they place a SeoMods score within this sample, not in Google’s results.
| Percentile | Score | What it means for a score |
|---|---|---|
| P10 | 19 | About one scan in ten scored 19 or lower. Below it, a page is in the lowest tenth of this sample. |
| P25 | 37 | The edge of the bottom quarter. A score under 37 is below about three quarters of the scans. |
| Median | 59 | The middle of the sample: half the scans scored lower, half higher. A score of 59 is the typical result here. |
| P75 | 74 | Where the top quarter begins. A score of 74 or more is at or above about three quarters of the scans. |
| P90 | 83 | Where the top tenth begins. A score of 83 or more is among the highest 10% of scans in this sample. |
Percentiles describe the sites SeoMods scanned, not the whole web, and they apply to this tool only: the same number on another tool sits somewhere else.
The SeoMods checks most often unmet
The list mixes disciplines on purpose, and reading it that way is the point: the same page can be perfectly crawlable and completely unattributable, or beautifully structured and stale. Grouping the failures by category rather than reading them top to bottom is what turns this list into a plan.
| Check | Not met (share of scans) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| FAQ / Q&A schema | 90% | Partial |
| TL;DR / summary block | 84% | Partial |
| Article / BlogPosting schema | 82% | Partial |
| llms.txt file present | 79% | Partial |
| Tables / definition lists | 77% | Partial |
| Breadcrumb schema | 74% | Partial |
| Exactly one H1 per page | 67% | Partial |
| Images have ALT text | 67% | Partial |
| Publish / update dates | 66% | Partial |
| Freshness signals | 66% | Partial |
| Organization / WebSite schema | 59% | Partial |
| Author / byline present | 56% | Partial |
The rate is the share of scans in which a SeoMods check was not met. It is SeoMods’ criterion, not Google’s assessment of these pages. “Hard fail” means the check’s full weight is deducted from the SeoMods score; “partial” means part of it.
The weakest areas
This tool groups its checks into categories. The chart below shows how often each category was the lowest-scoring one in a scan — which area is most often the weak link. It is not the average score in that category; it is how often it came last.
“Structured Data (Schema)” was the weakest area in 74% of scans.
What to fix first
Find your weakest category first and fix inside it rather than picking off the highest-percentage checks across the whole list. A category is weak because several related things are missing, and those usually share one cause — one absent schema block, one template that never printed a date — so working inside a category closes several checks per change.
A typical scan passes 19.3 of 35 checks and leaves 15.7 open items behind. In this sample what brings a SeoMods score down is mostly not one large omission but accumulated small ones.
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Month by month
This page adds every published month together. Underneath it, each month is frozen as an edition of its own whose figures are never edited again — which is the only reason two months can be set side by side at all. Below is the GEO & AEO Readiness Checker across the 2 published editions, with the combined figure in the last row of the table.
Between August 2026 and September 2026 the median went from 64 to 58, and the share of scans at 80 or above went from 21% to 13%. The two months do not measure the same sites — the September 2026 sample has about 3 times as many sites — so read the gap as a change in the cross-section measured, not as the same sites getting better or worse.
| Edition | Median | vs. previous | Scored 80+ | Issues/run | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 64 | baseline | 21% | 14.8 | 1,430 |
| September 2026 | 58 | −6 pts | 13% | 16.1 | 3,838 |
| All published months, combined | 59 | — | 16% | 15.7 | 5,268 |
Reading a monthly difference. Each month is a separate sample, and its size changes from month to month. A change in sample size can move a median and a distribution by itself, so a monthly difference should not be mistaken for a change in scores: it does not show that sites improved or got worse.
Which checks moved
Each check’s rate in the first edition that measured it, beside its rate in the latest. Moves under two points are marked as no change: these are independent monthly samples of a shifting set of sites, and a difference that small is not evidence that anything on the web changed.
| Check | Not met in August 2026 | Not met in September 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| llms.txt file present | 71% · August 2026 | 83% · September 2026 | +12 pp |
| Organization / WebSite schema | 51% · August 2026 | 62% · September 2026 | +11 pp |
| FAQ / Q&A schema | 84% · August 2026 | 92% · September 2026 | +8 pp |
| Tables / definition lists | 73% · August 2026 | 78% · September 2026 | +5 pp |
| Publish / update dates | 62% · August 2026 | 67% · September 2026 | +5 pp |
| Freshness signals | 62% · August 2026 | 67% · September 2026 | +5 pp |
| Breadcrumb schema | 71% · August 2026 | 75% · September 2026 | +4 pp |
| Article / BlogPosting schema | 80% · August 2026 | 83% · September 2026 | +3 pp |
| TL;DR / summary block | 85% · August 2026 | 83% · September 2026 | no change |
| Exactly one H1 per page | 66% · August 2026 | 68% · September 2026 | no change |
| Images have ALT text | 67% · August 2026 | 68% · September 2026 | no change |
What this score does not measure
- It is not a Google ranking. A high score does not guarantee a better position, and a low one does not mean Google has penalised the page.
- It is not an organic traffic estimate. No click, impression or visit data goes into it.
- It does not represent the whole of the real user experience. What is measured is one URL’s HTML and server response at the moment of the scan.
About this benchmark. This benchmark is calculated from data on the sites SeoMods has scanned. The results do not necessarily represent all websites, or a random selection of them. The scores express SeoMods’ own measurement and scoring criteria; they are not ranking, quality, E-E-A-T or AI visibility scores issued by Google. Sample, anonymization and licence: the full methodology.
Frequently asked questions
Should I run this or the individual GEO and AEO checks?
Run this one first. It covers the same ground at less depth and tells you which dimension is dragging the score down; then run the specialised tool for that dimension, which will explain the failures in more detail than a combined report can. Running all three on a page in good shape mostly produces agreement.
Why do the AI tools disagree with each other?
Because they weight the same signals differently, on purpose. A checker built around citability cares most about attribution; one built around answer extraction cares most about structure. A page can be strong on one and weak on the other, and the disagreement between the two scores is itself information about which kind of preparation is missing.
Is AI readiness worth the effort if my traffic is all classic search?
Most of the work overlaps, which makes the question easier than it looks. Server-rendered content, clear headings, named authors, visible dates and valid structured data are all long-standing SEO recommendations, and they overlap heavily with the signals this benchmark measures. The genuinely AI-specific additions — llms.txt, a summary block — are small on top of that.
What is a good score on the GEO & AEO Readiness Checker?
In this dataset the median SeoMods score is 59/100, so scoring 59 sits exactly in the middle of the sample. 74 is the start of the upper quartile and 83 or above is the top 10%; below 37 is the bottom quarter. Those thresholds are specific to this tool — the 25 tools with a published benchmark have very different medians, so 70 here and 70 elsewhere do not mean the same thing. They place a page among the sites SeoMods scanned; they say nothing about Google rankings.
Is the score from the GEO & AEO Readiness Checker issued by Google?
No. It is a benchmark score calculated against the check list SeoMods defined for this tool. A SeoMods check going unmet does not mean Google has penalised the page or ranked it lower.
Which SeoMods check goes unmet most often on the GEO & AEO Readiness Checker?
“FAQ / Q&A schema”, which was not met in 90% of scans. None of this tool's checks are scored as hard fails; every one of them loses partial credit instead.
Questions that govern the whole series — how the sample is collected, how sites are anonymized, how often the figures are refreshed — are answered in the methodology on the hub.
Using this data
The figures, tables and charts on this page are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0; the only condition is a link back to this page. Suggested citation: SeoMods — GEO & AEO Readiness Checker benchmarks, 2 October 2026, https://seomods.com/seo-score-benchmarks/geo-aeo-checker. If you need to cite by date, use the September 2026 edition instead: this page changes at every refresh and that one never does.