Citability Checker: Make Your Content AI-Citable

What Is Citability?

Citability refers to how easily AI systems can extract and reference specific information from your content. High citability means AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity can pull clean, accurate quotes and data points from your pages and attribute them to your site.

Elements That Improve Citability

• FAQ sections - Question-answer pairs from FAQPage markup, question headings, or expandable questions that AI can extract directly
• Data tables - Tables with <th> header cells so AI can read the columns; layout tables are ignored
• Lists - Real content lists of steps, options and key points, not menus or link lists that ended up in the main content
• Lead paragraphs - An opening paragraph of 25 to 90 words after the H1 that works as a quotable summary
• Answer-first sections - Each section, especially under a question heading, opens with a direct answer of 12 to 90 words before the detail
• Standalone section openers - Sections start by naming their subject instead of pointing back with "This" or "As mentioned above", so they still make sense when quoted alone
• Deep links - Ids on H2 and H3 headings so an answer can link to the exact section
• Definitions - Definition lists (<dl>) that pair terms with explanations

FAQ content, definition lists and data tables are optional: they add points when present and cost nothing when absent. Sections are read in page order, reviews and comments are skipped, and question headings are recognized in English, Dutch, German and French.

Citability and Answer Readiness

Answer readiness is closely related to citability. Content that directly answers questions in a clear, structured format is more likely to be selected by AI systems for citation. Glippy checks both aspects as part of the Citability & Answer-Readiness category.