Guides
How search engines and AI assistants read a site, and what to change. Each one is counted over the sites mttr has read and ends with something to do on your own.
8 guides and articlesCounted over 316,711 sitesUpdated
Getting cited
Grouped by what you are trying to do. Each figure is the one the piece turns on.
Getting cited
How assistants choose what to quoteWhat is generative engine optimization?
Where the term came from, how it differs from SEO, and what assistants need from a page.
9.9%of article pages answer first6 minGuideHow do you get recommended by ChatGPT?
What decides whether ChatGPT can show a site, and the fixes that make it readable.
0.9%of sites shut out ChatGPT's search crawler by name4 minArticleA studyWhat assistants cite
The questions people put to assistants, across 16 lines of work and fifteen cities, and every site the answers cite.
13,885sources cited in 3,275 answers6 minCounted over the 316,711 sites mttr has read, each at its latest read, as of October 26, 2026, except where a row says otherwise: the livecard figure is X's own. A guide is counted again as sites are read; an article keeps the day it was counted. A score or a rule passed says pages are well formed. It does not say an assistant cites the site. Every guide is also at its own address with .md added, for an agent.
Read your own site
The rules behind every figure here, on your pages, with the fixes worth the most first. Free, about a minute.