ChatGPT visibility checker

That is what this free tool does. It asks the real ChatGPT, with web search on, the question a customer of your business would ask, then shows whether ChatGPT recommended you, recommended someone else, or pointed to directories instead. People searching for an “LLM visibility checker” or a “ChatGPT visibility” test usually want exactly this: one straight answer from the assistant itself.

It matters because the audience is large and the visits are good. OpenAI said on 31 March 2026 that ChatGPT has more than 900 million weekly active users. Semrush's AI search traffic study (July 2025) found an AI search visitor converts at 4.4 times the rate of a traditional organic visitor.

The question is the whole experiment, so we are strict about it. It is the single most likely thing a customer types when they are ready to buy what you mainly sell, not a sideline. It asks for a business, never a person, because assistants decline to recommend individual doctors or lawyers but will name practices and firms. It is short and uses the words a customer owns rather than trade jargon. A roofing company in Fort Worth gets something like who does roof replacement in Fort Worth, and a site written in Hebrew gets a question in Hebrew.

It never contains your brand name. Somebody who has not found you yet cannot type it, and a question with your name in it would only prove that ChatGPT can look you up.

AI visibility platforms track hundreds of prompts across several assistants, every week, for a monthly fee. That is a different job: monitoring a brand over time. This is a free, quick answer to the question that decides most sales, such as Can you recommend a good roofer in Austin? for a roofing company. If ChatGPT names nobody for it, we ask one sharper version, because a single answer that names nobody tells you nothing.

We read the question off your homepage, so it is about what you lead with. If your site blocks requests from our servers, you type what you sell and where instead, and we ask from that.

We measured this ourselves in September 2026. The identical question about hardwood floor refinishing in Laurel, Maryland, asked three times in a row, named no business at all on one call and four real businesses on the other two. That is why this checker asks a second, differently worded question when the first one gets no answer, and why one result is a sample, not a ranking.

Your own ChatGPT may also answer differently because of your location, your chat history, memory and the model you use. We keep each site's answer for 6 hours, so a re-check inside that window shows the same result rather than spending another call.

With web search on, ChatGPT runs its own searches, reads a handful of pages and writes an answer with links. The links are the recommendation. It reads pages through OpenAI's crawlers, and OpenAI's crawler documentation says sites that block OAI-SearchBot will not be shown in ChatGPT search answers.

Ranking on Google does not carry over the way you might expect. Ahrefs looked at 15,000 long-tail queries (August 2025) and found only 8% of ChatGPT's in-text citations ranked in Google's top 10 for the same prompt. ChatGPT tends to cite pages that answer the question directly, on sites it can read and trust, and the directories and articles other people wrote about the business.

Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews each use their own crawlers and indexes, so being recommended by one is a good sign for the others but not a guarantee. This checker asks ChatGPT only.

1. Let AI crawlers in. Check that robots.txt and your firewall let OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User fetch your pages. The robots.txt checker tests GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the other AI crawlers. A minimal rule for ChatGPT looks like this:

2. Make the entity obvious. Your business name, what you do, the city you serve, phone and address, in plain text near the top of the homepage and repeated in LocalBusiness or Organization schema.

3. Write answer-first pages. One page per main service that answers the customer's question in its opening paragraph, then backs it up with prices, areas and proof.

4. Add structured data. Schema states who you are in a form machines don't have to guess at. The schema markup generator builds it from your page.

5. Get cited by others. The sources in your result are the pages ChatGPT read to decide. Being listed, reviewed and mentioned on them is how a business gets pulled into the answer.

Our guide to getting ChatGPT to recommend a service business goes further on each of these.

AI crawlers already visit small business WordPress sites heavily. In our crawl data from 6 September to 5 October 2026, across 924 WordPress sites, AI crawlers made more requests than Googlebot on 79% of small business sites. They are reading; the question is what they find.

A common reason a WordPress site stays invisible is a security plugin or host firewall that blocks unfamiliar bots. After that it is content and markup. In our study of 116 WordPress sites and 108,834 pages (August 2026), optimized pages earned 173.5 AI referral visits per 1,000 pages over 90 days against 15.8 for untouched pages on the same sites, about 11 times more. It is an association, not proof of cause, and the full study explains the method.

LovedByAI is a generative engine optimization plugin for small business WordPress sites. It automates the on-page work that makes a site readable and recommendable by AI assistants, and reports AI mentions and AI referral traffic back.