How The Oaklandside appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for The Oaklandside (oaklandside.org) — a nonprofit newsroom based in Oakland, CA.
Overall AI visibility
oaklandside.org
61/100
Grade D
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), The Oaklandside is rarely cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 61/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where The Oaklandside's articles are missing structured signals other nonprofit newsroom sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
89
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
70
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot ingests the archive; bylines and datelines are extracted.
Claude
51
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot allowed; speakable schema would lift answer-engine reuse.
Google AI Overviews
32
Crawler: Google-Extended
Site rarely appears in AI Overviews — Google-Extended likely blocked.
What The Oaklandside can ship this week
- 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.
- Allow `GPTBot`, `PerplexityBot`, `ClaudeBot`, `anthropic-ai`, `Google-Extended`, and `Applebot-Extended` in `https://oaklandside.org/robots.txt`.
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