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AI Visibility Scorecard
Chicago Sun-Times
suntimes.com · Media & Entertainment
Well-positioned for AI search. The breakdown below shows where Chicago Sun-Times is still leaving points on the table.
AI engines read this profile 12 times
ChatGPT · Amazon Alexa · Meta AI · Apple Intelligence
#1,914 of 1,912,104 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
7.8
/10
AEO Score
About Chicago Sun-Times
from our crawl and measurement
Chicago Sun-Times describes itself simply: "Chicago news, politics, sports, entertainment and more from America’s hardest-working paper." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.7 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebPage) and a sitemap. It is missing an llms.txt file and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
AI crawlers have visited 11 times in our tracking, including OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic) and Meta AI.
The 6 signals AI reads
Higher is better · 0-10
Structured Data
3
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
4
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
5
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
4
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
6
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
8
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
10
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
5
Established authority for your domain.
Reference Presence
10
Recognized in AI knowledge graphs.
News & Press
10
Press and news coverage.
Community
8
Forum and community discussion.
Social Mentions
9
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 7.8/10, Chicago Sun-Times 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/suntimes
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for Chicago Sun-Times." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/suntimes
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