AI Visibility Scorecard
The Hacker News
amp.thehackernews.com · Technology
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl The Hacker News, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 2 times
Claude · Meta AI
#566,360 of 2,705,506 in Technology for AI visibility
4
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.7/10
30
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 30/100
4
AI Adoption
iBasic · 4/100
About The Hacker News
from our crawl and measurement
The Hacker News is a business whose own site puts it this way: "The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach reports, expert analysis, and actionable insights for infosec." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.7 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (Organization) and a readable heading structure. It is missing an llms.txt file and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Good
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Good
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Fair
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Weak
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Strong
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
Good
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Strong
Press and news coverage.
Community
Strong
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 4.7/10, The Hacker News is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on September 2, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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