Only ~8% of users click past the AI Overview.[1] AI answers now open 1 in 4 Google searches — double the rate a year ago — and ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude cite just 2–7 domains per response.[2][3] If your page isn't in that handful, you're not a second-choice result — you're absent from the answer your customer actually reads.
Traditional SEO signals — traffic, backlinks, domain authority — explain less than 5% of which sources AI engines actually cite.[4] Ranking on Google, by itself, is no longer enough. It's a different game now. Most tools are still optimizing for the old one.
Sources: [1] eLearning Industry[2] BlueJar, State of AI Search 2026[3] Search Engine Land[4] SEOmator, analysis of 41M AI results[5] 6sense, via Foundation
Every TiredSEO scan returns three scores from one URL: an SEO score for how Google ranks you, an AI Readiness score for whether crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can parse you at all, and an AI Visibility score for whether those engines actually cite you when a buyer asks. The first two come with every scan, free. The third needs Pro and a verified domain — asking the engines costs real money. Most tools stop at the first one.
Sources: [6] VJ SEO Marketing[7] Novastacks
TiredSEO is built on three rules: no bloat, AI with opinions, and a fix you can paste. Each one is a constraint we hold ourselves to — a feature ships only if a founder with no docs, no onboarding and no spare afternoon can act on it inside a minute. The tests below are the ones we actually apply.
No wasted features. No dashboards to admire. No 14-tab settings panel. You get the one thing you need, at the moment you need it, and nothing that exists only to justify a price tier. Default to removing, never adding: if a screen doesn't change what you do next, it doesn't ship.
Our AI never says "consider optimizing." It says: this is the problem, this is why it costs you, this is the fix. And it reports what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini see — the schema they parse, the answers they extract, the competitors they cite instead of you — not just what Google's ranking algorithm sees.
Every issue ships with a concrete next step. Not "improve your meta description." Instead: add this keyword to your H1, trim the title to 58 characters, paste this FAQ schema so Perplexity can pull the section. Copy, paste, rescan, watch the score move. The gap between reading and fixing should be one click wide.
Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz and Screaming Frog were built for a web where ranking was the whole game, and their AI features are upsells bolted onto that assumption. Newer citation dashboards flip it — they track who gets mentioned but hand you charts instead of fixes. TiredSEO does both halves and ends every finding with something you can paste.
Every finding tells you what's wrong, why it costs you, and the exact thing to paste in. Severity, affected engine and fix time sit on every card, so you can triage in one pass and clear the critical ones before lunch. Below: real findings from a real scan. Yes, the snark is in the actual product.
User-agent: GPTBot / Disallow: /. ChatGPT cannot crawl, parse, or cite this page. This is almost certainly a default left over from a WordPress or Shopify install — half of new sites have it.Sources: [7] Novastacks
TiredSEO is a free-to-start, AI-aware SEO checker: one URL in, two scores and 25+ findings out, with no login for your first scan. (The third score, AI Visibility, comes with Pro.) Below are the questions people actually ask before signing up — pricing, limits, data, cancellation — answered the way we'd answer them sitting next to you.
Yes. 1 full scan per week, every finding, no card, forever — there's no trial clock on it. AI visibility (actually querying ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to see who they cite) is the expensive part to run, so that's what Pro pays for. Everything else costs us cents, so we don't charge for it.
One URL in, one report out. That report carries your SEO Score and AI Readiness Score, 25+ findings, the schema audit, the atomic answer matrix, the robots.txt diff for AI crawlers, and a copy-pasteable fix for every issue. The third score, AI Visibility, is the Pro one — it needs a verified domain, because asking the engines costs real money. Rechecking the same URL after you've fixed something counts as another scan.
Ahrefs is a deep backlink and rank-tracking suite; we don't try to be one. The difference is what gets measured: Ahrefs tells you how Google ranks you and treats AI as a bolted-on tab. Whether ChatGPT and Perplexity cite you is the entire point of TiredSEO, not an add-on — and every finding ends in something you can paste.
One click, from your account page, any time. No retention email, no "are you sure" funnel, no call with a success manager. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for, then stops. Export your whole scan history on the way out — it's your data.
No. The free tier is the trial: 1 full scan a week, every finding, no card, and no clock on it — use it as long as you like. Pro is month-to-month, so if it isn't for you the most you're out is one month, and you cancel from your account page whenever you want.
Yes. We don't sell scan data. Raw crawled HTML auto-deletes fast — within a day on Free, within 30 days on Pro; we keep the report, not a copy of your site. You can export everything you've scanned, or delete your account and everything in it, from the account page at any time, without emailing anyone.
Paste a URL. Get your report right away — your scores, every finding, and a fix you can copy. No login, no card, no drip campaign about webinars. If the report doesn't tell you something you can act on today, close the tab and we've earned nothing. That's the whole deal.