How does the technical audit check sitemap completeness?

The audit compares URLs in your sitemap.xml against pages discovered by crawling. It checks for missing URLs, stale lastmod timestamps that don't reflect actual changes, incorrect priority values, and orphaned entries pointing to deleted pages. A complete, accurate sitemap ensures AI crawlers discover every page you want indexed.

What are the 48 AEO criteria?

The 48 criteria are organized into 5 pillars with fixed target shares: Answer Readiness 40%, Content Structure 25%, Trust & Authority 15%, Technical Foundation 10%, and AI Discovery 10%. Inside those pillars, criteria cover topic coherence, original data, depth, fact density, direct answers, Q&A structure, entity authority, freshness, visible dates, schema, semantic HTML, extraction friction, llms.txt, robots.txt, licensing, canonicals, sitemap coverage, and RSS. Each criterion is scored 0–10, converted into an effective weight after confidence and overlap controls, then rolled into the final score.

What does the RSS feed audit check?

The audit verifies your site has a discoverable RSS or Atom feed with proper metadata. It checks feed existence at common paths, a link tag in the HTML head, adequate item count, and pubDate per item. RSS feeds let AI indexing systems detect new content automatically without waiting for a full crawl.

What are audit versions and how do they work?

Each time we re-audit a domain, a new version is created. You can view any previous version and compare two side by side to see exactly which criteria changed. This is how you measure the impact of your AEO work over time.

Can I compare my AEO Site Rank over time?

Yes. Every audit is versioned. You can see exactly how your score changed between audits — which criteria improved, which declined, and the overall trajectory. This is how you measure the impact of your AEO work.

peakflo.co - AEO Audit Report | 45/100

WINTER 2022 peakflo.co

Weak AI visibility with 32 of 48 criteria passing. Biggest gap: sitemap completeness.

Finance & Payments Corporate Finance Platforms

Scoring Methodology

How Your AEO Site Rank Is Calculated

A weighted average of 48 deterministic criteria. Each scored 0-10, each with a specific weight. No AI judgment calls - every point is traceable.

Weak visibilityOut of 100 possible points

The Formula

Score = sum(criterion_score / 10 * weight * 100) / sum(weights)

Each criterion is scored 0-10 by deterministic checks, multiplied by its weight, and summed to produce a 0-100 overall score.

Your Score Breakdown

Content9 criteria

Q&A Content Format15%9/10+13.5

FAQ Sections10%5/10+5.0

Original Data10%10/10+10.0

Content Freshness7%2/10+1.4

Direct Answer Paragraphs7%7/10+4.9

Fact & Data Density5%8/10+4.0

Definition Patterns4%5/10+2.0

Query-Answer Alignment8%10/10+8.0

Content Cannibalization5%6/10+3.0

Subtotal71%+51.8

Structure5 criteria

Schema.org JSON-LD15%10/10+15.0

Clean, Crawlable HTML10%7/10+7.0

Semantic HTML55%6/10+3.0

Table & List Extractability7%7/10+4.9

Schema Coverage3%8/10+2.4

Subtotal40%+32.3

Discovery5 criteria

llms.txt10%10/10+10.0

robots.txt for AI5%5/10+2.5

Internal Linking10%8/10+8.0

Sitemap Completeness5%0/10+0.0

RSS/Atom Feed3%0/10+0.0

Subtotal33%+20.5

Trust Signals6 criteria

Entity Authority10%8/10+8.0

Content Licensing4%2/10+0.8

Author & Expert Schema4%7/10+2.8

Canonical URL4%10/10+4.0

Content Velocity3%0/10+0.0

Visible Date Signals4%0/10+0.0

Subtotal29%+15.6

Overall Score100%45/100

Score Ranges

86-100AI-first content architecture

71-85Strong AI visibility

56-70Moderate visibility

41-55Weak visibility

26-40Minimal visibility

0-25Not on the radar

Key Points

Topic Coherence carries the highest weight at 14%, followed by Original Data at 10%, across 48 total criteria.

No HTTPS means Clean HTML is capped at 3/10, costing approximately 3-4 overall points.

Every criterion uses deterministic checks. Same site, same audit, same score - every time.

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Citation Avg

Coherence gate active - score capped at 50

Answer Readiness

~40% weight

6/10

Content Structure

~25% weight

8/10

Trust & Authority

~15% weight

5/10

Technical Foundation

~10% weight

5/10

AI Discovery

~10% weight

4/10

Verdict

Critical AEO gaps at 45/100 - peakflo.co is largely invisible to AI engines. Key strengths include llms.txt File, Schema.org Structured Data, and Original Data & Expert Analysis. Priority gaps: Sitemap Completeness, RSS/Atom Feed, and Content Publishing Velocity. Topic coherence is 3/10, which caps the overall score at 50. Focusing content on core expertise areas is the single highest-impact improvement.

Top priorities

Sitemap CompletenessDiscovery+10 pts

RSS/Atom FeedDiscovery+10 pts

Content Publishing VelocityDiscovery+10 pts

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How to Improve

Current

45/100

Projected

78/100

36Total Fixes

9Quick Wins

~65hEst. Effort

Quick Wins

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlersBuild FAQ sections with schemaAdd definition-style contentAdd ai.txt and content licensingAdd visible date signalsMake pages solve the user task fasterAdd answer-first content placementClarify entity boundariesReduce extraction friction

Fix

Impact

Effort

Create complete sitemap.xml

Generate a comprehensive sitemap with lastmod dates for all important pages.

critical

medium

Create complete sitemap.xml

critical|medium

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

Ensure clean, well-structured HTML with proper meta tags, HTTPS, and parseable content for AI crawlers.

medium

low

Fix HTML structure and meta tags

medium|low

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

Update robots.txt to explicitly allow AI crawlers and include sitemap directive.

high

trivial

Configure robots.txt for AI crawlers

high|trivial

Add internationalization signals

Implement hreflang tags and lang attributes so AI engines serve the correct language version when answering queries.

critical

medium

Add internationalization signals

critical|medium

Reduce document weight

Trim oversized HTML, excessive DOM nodes, and large inline payloads that slow AI crawlers.

medium

low

Reduce document weight

medium|low

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Score Breakdown

Criteria

Status

Potential

Score

Sitemap Completeness

critical+10 pts0/10

RSS/Atom Feed

critical+10 pts0/10

Content Publishing Velocity

critical+10 pts0/10

Speakable Schema

critical+10 pts0/10

Visible Date Signal

critical+10 pts0/10

Owned Data Density

critical+10 pts0/10

Image Context for AI

critical+9 pts1/10

Content Freshness Signals

critical+8 pts2/10

Content Licensing & AI Permissions

critical+8 pts2/10

Creator Transparency

critical+8 pts2/10

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Site Pages

URLCitationSiteIn-linksCategoryIssuesWords

peakflo.co/end-to-end-payment-automationUnified Payment Collections and Mass Payouts for Marketplaces

F34

content

2,916

peakflo.co/end-to-end-payment-automationF34

Unified Payment Collections and Mass Payouts for Marketplaces

peakflo.co/partnershipAgentic workflows that automate and execute your back-office operations.

F39

content

2,459

peakflo.co/partnershipF39

Agentic workflows that automate and execute your back-office operations.

peakflo.co/ai-voice-agentsAutomate Every Call with Human-like AI Voice Agents

F34

content

2,264

peakflo.co/ai-voice-agentsF34

Automate Every Call with Human-like AI Voice Agents

peakflo.co/accounts-receivable-and-invoicingBest Accounts Receivable and Collections Software | Peakflo

F36

content

2,116

peakflo.co/accounts-receivable-and-invoicingF36

Best Accounts Receivable and Collections Software | Peakflo

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F30

content

1,858

peakflo.co/accounts-payable/bills-and-ocr-ai-powered-invo...F30

Eliminate invoice data entry with AI-powered invoice capture

peakflo.co/accounts-payableUltimate AP Automation | Peakflo Account Payable Software

F37

content

1,816

peakflo.co/accounts-payableF37

Ultimate AP Automation | Peakflo Account Payable Software

peakflo.co/accounts-payable/purchase-request-purchase-quo...Create purchase requests, purchase quotes, and purchase orders with Peakflo

F34

content

1,756

peakflo.co/accounts-payable/purchase-request-purchase-quo...F34

Create purchase requests, purchase quotes, and purchase orders with Peakflo

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Guides for the criteria with the most room for improvement

Criteria0/10

Sitemap Completeness

Your sitemap says 500 pages exist. Our crawl finds 700. Those 200 missing URLs? AI crawlers will never know they exist.

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Criteria0/10

RSS Feed Presence & Quality

Sitemaps tell crawlers what exists. RSS feeds tell them what changed. If you don't have one, your new content waits days -or weeks -to be discovered.

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Criteria0/10

Content Publishing Velocity

You published a great blog post in January. It's now February and nothing else has appeared. AI engines notice -and they're crawling less often because of it.

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supplementary0/10

Speakable Schema Markup

Voice assistants need to pick which paragraph to read aloud from your page. Without Speakable markup, they guess -and they frequently guess wrong, reading your cookie notice.

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