Run your first audit

A GEO audit scans your pages and scores them across Technical, Content, Authority, and Media pillars. The results show you exactly what to improve so AI search engines cite your content more often.

Before you begin

You need:

• A configured brand profile — see Set up your brand
• A live URL you want to audit

Choose a scan type

Vizzybl offers four scan types. Single Page is available on every plan; Top 20 and Top 50 require Pro, Ultra, or Enterprise; Full Site requires Ultra or Enterprise.

Scan Type	Pages	Best For
Single Page	1	Quick check on a specific URL
Top 20	Up to 20	Auditing your most important pages
Top 50	Up to 50	Broader site assessment
Full Site	All discoverable pages	Comprehensive optimization review

Larger scans consume more credits but give you a complete picture of your site's GEO readiness. Start with a Single Page scan to see results fast.

Run an audit

1. Open the Audits section from your dashboard
2. Select + New Audit
3. Enter the URL you want to scan
4. Select your scan type
5. Select Start Audit. The button shows the cost in credits before you confirm

The audit runs a multi-stage pipeline. A single-page audit takes a few minutes.

While your audit runs

The audit page lists the checks the audit makes and shows what each one found as it finishes, with the time taken so far.

You don't have to wait. You can close the page, and your results will be there when it's done. Vizzybl also emails the person who started the audit when it's done, unless they have switched off Results & billing emails in Account Settings.

If something goes wrong

• Your site doesn't answer the address check. Vizzybl checks that the address answers before it starts an audit. If the check can't reach your site, or your site refuses it, no audit starts. Check the address, or see Let Vizzybl read your site.
• The audit couldn't read your page. The audit still finishes, and uses credits like any other finished audit. Its report says that Content was not measured, and Content counts as 0 in GEO Readiness. See Understanding audit scores.
• The audit failed, or seems to have stopped. The audit page says so, shows the checks that had finished, and offers Try again. It opens the same window as Re-run audit, described below. For what happens to the credits of a failed audit, see the Credits FAQ.

Re-run an audit

To measure a page again after you change it, open the audit's report and select Re-run audit, at the top of the report beside the audit date.

The audit window opens with that audit's keywords and scan type filled in, and its URL on plans that let you change the URL. Nothing runs yet. Check the details, then select Start Audit. A re-run is a new audit: when it starts you are taken to its report, and the earlier audit stays in your history.

What the pipeline analyzes

Each audit runs your content through seven analysis stages:

• Infrastructure — Semantic HTML, heading hierarchy, landmark elements
• Content — Nugget density, readability, and quotable facts
• Citations — Source attribution, external references, and verifiable claims
• Entity authority — Knowledge graph presence and brand recognition
• Freshness — Publication dates, last-modified timestamps, and changelogs
• Transparency — Author attribution, methodology disclosure, and source citations
• Media — Image alt text quality, video schema, and visual fact density

Read your results

Once the audit completes, your report shows:

AI Visibility Index (AIVI)

Your headline score from 0 to 100. This combines GEO Readiness (60% weight) and Share of Voice (40% weight) into a single metric.

GEO Readiness

How well your content is optimized for AI citation. This is the dynamic average of your pillar scores.

Pillar scores

Each pillar gets its own score with specific recommendations:

• Technical — Infrastructure readiness for AI crawlers
• Content — Quality and structure for AI extraction
• Authority — Brand recognition and trustworthiness signals
• Media — Visual and multimedia optimization (optional)

The pillar scores sit under the headline score. Select one to jump to its section of the report.

Share of Voice

How often AI engines mentioned your brand in the answers this audit collected, shown as "mentioned in 15 of 22 AI answers". For ongoing tracking of your own prompts, set up prompt monitoring.

Next steps

• Understanding audit scores — Learn how to interpret each score and prioritize improvements
• Set up prompt monitoring — Track your brand's presence across AI platforms