AI Visibility Scorecard
Sports Illustrated
si.com · Sports & Recreation
Well-positioned for AI search. The breakdown below shows where Sports Illustrated is still leaving points on the table.
AI engines read this profile 17 times
Meta AI · Claude · ChatGPT · Perplexity
#159 of 250,975 in Sports & Recreation for AI visibility
7
AEO Visibility
iVisible · 7.3/10
30
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 30/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About Sports Illustrated
from our crawl and measurement
si.com is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Sports Illustrated, SI.com provides sports news, expert analysis, highlights, stats and scores for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football, soccer, fantasy, gambling and more." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.3 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebSite, BreadcrumbList, NewsArticle), an llms.txt file for AI models and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have visited 11 times in our tracking, including OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
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
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
Strong
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
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 7.3/10, Sports Illustrated has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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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/si
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for Sports Illustrated." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/si
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