# Running a free site scan

> Enter your domain and SuperSchema samples up to 10 key pages, measures how ready they are for AI and search, and hands you a SuperSchema Score. It is free, needs no account, and never changes your live site.

*Category: Site Scan & AI Visibility · Last updated: 2026-07-07*

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A site scan is the fastest way to see how visible your website is to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI overviews. You enter your domain, SuperSchema reads a sample of your most important pages the way an AI crawler would, and you get a single SuperSchema Score from 0 to 100 plus a category-by-category breakdown of what is helping and hurting you. It is free, needs no account to run, and only reads your public pages. It never logs in, changes anything, or touches your live site.

### How to run a scan

1. Go to the SuperSchema homepage and find the scan box (the field reads “yourwebsite.com”).
2. Type your domain. You can paste a full URL or just the domain, with or without “https://”.
3. Click the scan button. It updates to read “Scan yourdomain.com” once it recognizes a valid domain.
4. Wait on the progress screen while the scan runs. You do not need to do anything.
5. When it finishes, review your SuperSchema Score and the five category scores.

While the scan spins up you will see a “Preparing your AI visibility report” screen. Behind that screen SuperSchema is doing three things: reviewing your website and sampling pages, understanding your business context (your category, audience, and what you offer), and drafting the buyer questions it will use to judge how well AI can answer real questions about you.

### What happens during a scan

- Discovery: SuperSchema finds your pages, starting with your sitemap.xml (and the Sitemap line in robots.txt) and crawling from there if needed.
- Crawling: it fetches up to 10 key pages for the free scan, reading each one the way a search engine or AI bot would.
- Analyzing: it evaluates each page against the five AI-readiness categories below.
- Scoring: it rolls the results into your overall SuperSchema Score and per-category grades.

> **Note:** The free scan samples up to 10 of your key pages. That is enough for an accurate read on your site’s AI readiness without a full-site crawl. A full-site audit covering every page is available once you have an account.

- Most scans finish in well under a minute. Larger or slower sites can take longer, and SuperSchema will keep checking for up to 10 minutes before it times out.
- The scan is read-only. It only requests your public pages and never modifies your site, your content, or your settings.
- It respects robots.txt. Our crawler identifies itself as “SuperSchemaBot” (full user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SuperSchemaBot/1.0; +https://superschema.ai/bot)).

### What you get: your SuperSchema Score

Your SuperSchema Score is a 0 to 100 measure of how ready your site is for AI. It is a weighted blend of five categories, each measuring a different part of how machines read your content:

| Category | Weight | What it measures |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Access | 15% | Whether AI crawlers can reach your content: robots.txt allows AI bots, no noindex blocking, pages load without JavaScript. |
| Content | 25% | Whether there is substantial content to learn from: word count over 300, a healthy text-to-HTML ratio, meaningful paragraphs. |
| Structure | 15% | Whether your HTML hierarchy is clean: a proper H1, logical heading order, lists and tables for data. |
| Schema | 25% | Whether JSON-LD gives AI explicit context: valid schema present, relevant types, complete required fields. |
| Alternate | 20% | Whether AI-readable versions exist: a Markdown version, a plain-text alternative, and both accessible. |

Content and Schema carry the most weight (25% each) because they are what AI engines lean on most: real substance to cite, and explicit structured data that tells them what your page is about. Where your score lands maps to a plain-language band:

**96 to 100 · Super:** AI systems have a strong read on your site. You are in rare company.

**80 to 95 · Good:** A strong foundation with a few clear gaps to close.

**60 to 79 · Fair:** AI can understand parts of your site, but the signal is uneven.

**40 to 59 · Needs Work:** AI systems are likely missing important context.

**0 to 39 · Critical:** Major gaps are keeping AI from understanding your site.

> **Tip:** A score in the 80s is a genuinely strong result. Very few sites are “AI-ready” today, so even reaching Good puts you ahead of most of your competitors.

### Seeing your full report

When the scan completes you will see a “Your Site Scan report is ready” teaser with a preview. To reveal your full SuperSchema Score, the prioritized list of fixes, and your included Page Setup, create a free account. No card is required, and it takes under 30 seconds. This is called claiming your scan, and it carries over the business context SuperSchema already detected so you do not start from scratch.

### If your scan gets blocked

Some sites sit behind Cloudflare, a firewall, or bot-protection that blocks automated readers, including ours. When that happens the scan cannot read your pages, and you will see one of these:

**Site Security Challenge:** Your page loads fine in a normal browser, but Cloudflare or another security tool blocked SuperSchema from reading it. Ask your site admin to allow SuperSchema or lower bot protection for that URL, then scan again.

**Website Access Blocked:** SuperSchema could not read any public pages from the site, usually because of a firewall, a Cloudflare rule, or a bot-protection setting. Try another public page from the same site, or have your admin allow our crawler.

> **Tip:** To let SuperSchema through, allow the user agent “SuperSchemaBot” in your firewall or bot-protection rules, and make sure your robots.txt does not disallow it. See scan troubleshooting for the full list of scan errors (DNS, SSL, timeouts, redirect loops) and how to fix each.

> **Note:** Free scans are rate-limited to protect site owners: up to 5 scans per domain per day. If you hit the limit, wait a bit or claim your report to keep working with the pages already scanned.

## Questions this answers

- Is the site scan free?
- Do I need an account to run a scan?
- Will scanning slow down, change, or break my live website?
- How many pages does the free scan look at?
- How long does a scan take?
- What does the scan actually check?
- What is a good SuperSchema Score?
- Why was my scan blocked or why did it say “Site Security Challenge”?
- How do I let SuperSchema scan my site?
- How do I see my full report after the scan?

## Related

- https://superschema.ai/docs/reading-your-ai-readiness-report
- https://superschema.ai/docs/your-superschema-score
- https://superschema.ai/docs/claiming-a-scan
- https://superschema.ai/docs/scan-troubleshooting