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AI Visibility Leaderboard

SEO Crawlers & Site Audit

Technical SEO crawlers and site-audit tools for finding on-site issues. Ranked by how often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode mention and cite each brand when asked 5 buyer questions.

10
Brands ranked
5
Buyer questions
22
Engine answers
5
AI engines

Share of voice, in the table below, is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category that week.

1.Screaming Frog
screamingfrog.co.uk
73.8
Share of voice
21%
Named / Cited
22 / 1
Week
–
2.Semrush Site Audit
semrush.com
59.4
Share of voice
17%
Named / Cited
18 / 4
Week
▲1
3.Sitebulb
sitebulb.com
57.8
Share of voice
16%
Named / Cited
17 / 4
Week
▼1
4.Lumar
lumar.io
49.7
Share of voice
15%
Named / Cited
16 / 0
Week
–
5.Botify
botify.com
28.8
Share of voice
9%
Named / Cited
9 / 0
Week
▲1
6.JetOctopus
jetoctopus.com
25.6
Share of voice
7%
Named / Cited
7 / 2
Week
▼1
7.Oncrawl
oncrawl.com
25.4
Share of voice
8%
Named / Cited
8 / 0
Week
–
8.Netpeak Spider
netpeaksoftware.com
14.2
Share of voice
4%
Named / Cited
4 / 0
Week
–
9.Ryte
ryte.com
10.7
Share of voice
3%
Named / Cited
3 / 0
Week
–
10.ContentKing
contentkingapp.com
4.9
Share of voice
1%
Named / Cited
1 / 0
Week
–

Snapshot for the week of October 5, 2026. Named = the engine wrote the brand into its answer. Cited = the engine linked the brand's own domain as a source, out of 22 answers.

Do the engines agree?

How often each engine named the brand, as a share of the questions it answered. Reading across a row shows whether the engines are describing the same market — the spread column is the gap between the engine that names the brand most and the one that names it least.

ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiCopilotGoogle AI ModeSpread
Screaming Frog1001001001001000
Semrush Site Audit80100100608040
Sitebulb8050801006050
Lumar40501001006060
Botify20060604060
JetOctopus405040202030
Oncrawl05020606060
Netpeak Spider20502020050
Ryte00060060
ContentKing00002020
Named in 0%100% of answers

Values are the percentage of that engine's answers naming the brand. Each engine answered the same 5 questions here, so a cell moves in steps of 20 points. 3 brands are named in more than half of one engine's answers and never mentioned by another — the engines are not describing the same shortlist.

Named vs cited in SEO Crawlers & Site Audit

Two different kinds of visibility. The filled dot is how often engines wrote the brand into the answer; the hollow dot is how often they linked the brand's own domain as a source. The bar between them is the gap — and where the filled dot sits to the left, the brand is cited more often than it is recommended.

Named in the answerCited as a source
Screaming Frog+95
Semrush Site Audit+64
Sitebulb+59
Lumar+73
Botify+41
JetOctopus+23
Oncrawl+36
Netpeak Spider+18
Ryte+14
ContentKing+5
0%25%50%75%100%

Gap column is percentage points, named minus cited. Widest this week: Screaming Frog, named in 100% of answers but cited in 5%.

Where AI looks for SEO Crawlers & Site Audit

Domains the engines cited most across this category's answers this week. These are the surfaces that shape AI recommendations here, and where coverage is worth checking first.

newsdata.io×8prerender.io×8squirrelscan.com×6semrush.com×5sitebulb.com×5seo.ai×4zapier.com×4pearllemon.com×3tryanalyze.ai×3xovi.com×3

How this is measured

Every week cloro asks each engine the same 5 buyer-intent questions with US localization, then scores the answers with deterministic string and URL matching — no LLM judge, so the same answers always give the same score. The 0–100 AI Visibility Score weights mention rate (60%), citation rate (25%), and how early a brand is named (15%).

Read the full methodology →

Cite this study

cloro. (October 5, 2026). AI Visibility Leaderboard — SEO Crawlers & Site Audit (Week of 2026-10-05) [Data set]. cloro Research. https://cloro.dev/ai-visibility/seo-crawlers/

Underlying data · CC BY 4.0

Week of 2026-10-05, unchanged since publication. The page above refreshes weekly.

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Frequently asked questions

How is the AI Visibility Score calculated?

The score runs 0–100 and combines three signals: how often the brand is mentioned across engine answers (60%), how often an engine cites the brand's own domain as a source (25%), and how early the brand appears when it is named (15%). Detection is deterministic string and URL matching, not an LLM judgement, so the same answers always produce the same score.

Which AI engines are included?

This snapshot covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode. Every engine is asked the same 5 buyer-intent questions with US localization, giving 22 engine answers for this category.

How often does the leaderboard update?

Weekly. A fresh sweep runs every Monday (UTC) and each page is stamped with the week it reflects. Rankings are deliberately not real-time — AI recommendations do not move hour to hour, and dated snapshots are easier to cite and compare.

What is the difference between a mention and a citation?

A mention means the engine named the brand in its answer text. A citation means the engine linked the brand's own domain as a source. They are tracked separately because they are different kinds of visibility — a brand can be cited as a source without ever being recommended, and vice versa.

Can I reuse this data?

Yes. Everything here is free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0 — cite the category page and the week it covers.

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