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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (Hacker News · Oct 29, 2026)

Free tool checks website readability for AI assistants, 16 checks

KEY FACTS

  • The tool asks users to enter a homepage URL and automatically runs 16 checks.
  • The checks are designed to assess whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI can read, trust and cite a website.
  • The tool requires no sign-up, no email and no installation, and returns results within seconds.
  • The scan covers the homepage's server-rendered document as well as robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt.
  • The tool makes four requests in total, and the results are only an automated snapshot that does not predict rankings or citations.

KEY DATA

16Number of checks
4Number of requests

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Generative search is becoming a traffic gateway, and whether a site can be read and cited by AI directly affects its exposure. This free tool opens up the starting point of paid audits, lowering the barrier to self-checking, but a snapshot is not the result, and site owners still need to judge in light of content quality. The signal is that AI-oriented website optimization is moving from concept to something actionable.

Source: Hacker News report