How Idaho Statesman appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for Idaho Statesman (idahostatesman.com) — a regional daily based in Boise, ID.
Overall AI visibility
idahostatesman.com
64/100
Grade D
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), Idaho Statesman is rarely cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 64/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where Idaho Statesman's articles are missing structured signals other regional daily sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
92
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
73
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot ingests the archive; bylines and datelines are extracted.
Claude
54
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot allowed; speakable schema would lift answer-engine reuse.
Google AI Overviews
35
Crawler: Google-Extended
Site rarely appears in AI Overviews — Google-Extended likely blocked.
What Idaho Statesman can ship this week
- Mark paywalled body content with `cssSelector` exclusions but leave the lede + first 200 words free — that's what answer engines quote.
- Server-render every article. JS-only shells fail GPTBot's HTML fetch and quietly drop you out of citations.
- Add `<script type="application/ld+json">` NewsArticle schema with `speakable`, `dateline`, and `isAccessibleForFree` to every story page.
- Add an XML sitemap entry for every article within an hour of publish so crawl latency for AI bots stays under 60 minutes.
- Add a public reporter bio page for every byline with `Person` schema, beats, and a sample of recent articles.
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