AI Visibility Scorecard
emptywheel
emptywheel.net · Legal
Somewhat visible. AI bots can read emptywheel, but it is missing the structured signals that push citation rate above competitors.
AI engines read this profile 10 times
Claude · ChatGPT · Meta AI · ShapBot
#1,544 of 388,793 in Legal for AI visibility
7
AEO Visibility
iVisible · 6.9/10
30
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 30/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About emptywheel
from our crawl and measurement
"Come for the weedy coverage of legal cases, politics, and left theory. Stay for the potty mouth and craic." That is how emptywheel introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is partially visible, scoring 6.9 out of 10, readable in places and missing in others.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList), an llms.txt file for AI models and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have visited 5 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and GPTBot (ChatGPT).
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Fair
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Strong
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Fair
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Good
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Fair
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Good
Press and news coverage.
Community
Good
Forum and community discussion.
Social Mentions
Strong
Social discussion and mentions.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 6.9/10, emptywheel has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
Frequently Asked Questions
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by emptywheel | Jul 26, 2026Early in the NYT's own coverage of DOJ's attempt to subpoena five journalists and their phone...
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on July 31, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/emptywheel-net
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for emptywheel." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/emptywheel-net
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