AI Visibility Scorecard
The Hacker News
thehackernews.com · Media & Entertainment
Well-positioned for AI search. Its weakest signal, E-E-A-T Signals, is where The Hacker News still has room to grow.
AI engines read this profile 23 times
Claude · Amazon Alexa · ChatGPT · Parallel
Top 1% in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
99
AI Naming Predictability
iAI names companies like this often · 99/100
Media & Entertainment average 17
See what's behind this score →8.74
AEO Visibility
iHighly visible · 8.74/10
Media & Entertainment average 2.6
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Network Authority
iNot connected yet
0 relationships on record. Businesses in Media & Entertainment average 3. Claim your page and Engagemii is your first.
See what's behind this score →40
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 40/100
Media & Entertainment average 15
See what's behind this score →12
About The Hacker News
from our crawl and measurement
"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." That is how The Hacker News introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 8.74 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (Organization), an llms.txt file for AI models and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have read this profile 23 times in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic), AmazonBot (Alexa AI) and GPTBot (ChatGPT).
- Company ·
- The Hacker News
- Website ·
- thehackernews.com
- Industry ·
- Media & Entertainment
- Site status ·
- Live (The website showed an active business site when last checked (Oct 31, 2026).)
- Last scored ·
- Nov 8, 2026
The 6 on-page signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Good
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
Strong
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
The 6 off-page signals AI reads
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
-
Not yet measured.
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 read your site and name it in answers. At 8.74/10, The Hacker News is well placed; the signals above show what is left to gain.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on November 8, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/thehackernews
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for The Hacker News." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/thehackernews
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