--- title: AI Visibility Index: how often small businesses appear... description: A study of 531 website audits measuring how often small and mid-sized businesses appear in AI assistant answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) when... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-visibility-index-how-often-small-businesses-appear-in-ai-answers-zmldp68xv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Visibility Index: how often small businesses appear in AI answers | daily.dev og:description: A study of 531 website audits measuring how often small and mid-sized businesses appear in AI assistant answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) when... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-visibility-index-how-often-small-businesses-appear-in-ai-answers-zmldp68xv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zMldp68xv.png og:image:alt: AI Visibility Index: how often small businesses appear in AI answers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Visibility Index: how often small businesses appear in AI answers **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A study of 531 website audits measuring how often small and mid-sized businesses appear in AI assistant answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) when users ask buying-intent questions. Key findings: 94.8% of audited sites are never named in any AI answer, Gemini has the widest reach at 2.9% citation rate, 8.9% of sites block at least one AI crawler in robots.txt (mostly training crawlers rather than retrieval agents), only 54.6% publish any schema.org structured data, and just 19.3% use LocalBusiness schema. The study also distinguishes between 'answer presence' (whether an AI names the business) and 'machine readability' (crawlability signals the site owner controls). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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