How San Francisco Chronicle appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for San Francisco Chronicle (sfchronicle.com) — a regional daily based in San Francisco, CA.
Overall AI visibility
sfchronicle.com
65/100
Grade C
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), San Francisco Chronicle is inconsistently cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 65/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where San Francisco Chronicle's articles are missing structured signals other regional daily sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
93
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot reaches the site and recent articles surface in citations.
Perplexity
74
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot ingests the archive; bylines and datelines are extracted.
Claude
55
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot allowed; speakable schema would lift answer-engine reuse.
Google AI Overviews
36
Crawler: Google-Extended
Site rarely appears in AI Overviews — Google-Extended likely blocked.
What San Francisco Chronicle can ship this week
- 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.
- 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.
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