AI Visibility Scorecard
American Science Today
scientficamerican.com · Education
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl American Science Today, 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 11 times
Meta AI · Claude · Apple Intelligence · ShapBot
#111,946 of 937,652 in Education for AI visibility
<1
4
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.2/10
5
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 5/100
4
AI Adoption
iBasic · 4/100
About American Science Today
from our crawl and measurement
American Science Today works in Education. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 4.2 out of 10.
Our crawl found a sitemap. It is missing structured data describing the business, an llms.txt file and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
AI crawlers have visited 10 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic), Meta AI and Applebot (Siri).
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Good
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Fair
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
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Fair
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Good
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
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 4.2/10, American Science Today is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on October 23, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/scientficamerican
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for American Science Today." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/scientficamerican
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