How Austin American-Statesman appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for Austin American-Statesman (statesman.com) — a regional daily based in Austin, TX.
Overall AI visibility
statesman.com
61/100
Grade D
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), Austin American-Statesman is rarely cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 61/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where Austin American-Statesman's articles are missing structured signals other regional daily sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
74
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
55
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot allowed but author entities aren't strongly linked.
Claude
36
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot blocked or anthropic-ai variant disallowed in robots.txt.
Google AI Overviews
80
Crawler: Google-Extended
Google AI Overviews include the site for breaking and explainer queries.
What Austin American-Statesman can ship this week
- Add a public reporter bio page for every byline with `Person` schema, beats, and a sample of recent articles.
- Allow `GPTBot`, `PerplexityBot`, `ClaudeBot`, `anthropic-ai`, `Google-Extended`, and `Applebot-Extended` in `https://statesman.com/robots.txt`.
- Cross-link each article from at least two evergreen topic pages so AI engines can find it after the homepage rotates it off.
- Publish a `/llms.txt` at the root that maps your beats, reporter bios, and the canonical URL for each topic.
- Mark paywalled body content with `cssSelector` exclusions but leave the lede + first 200 words free — that's what answer engines quote.
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