--- title: How to Run an AI Extractability Audit on Your Site (I... description: A practical walkthrough of running an AI extractability audit to improve how AI assistants cite your web pages. The core finding: UI card components emitting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-run-an-ai-extractability-audit-on-your-site-i-found-6-heading-tags-that-cost-me-citations--geoysryw0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Run an AI Extractability Audit on Your Site (I Found 6 Heading Tags That Cost Me Citations) | daily.dev og:description: A practical walkthrough of running an AI extractability audit to improve how AI assistants cite your web pages. The core finding: UI card components emitting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-run-an-ai-extractability-audit-on-your-site-i-found-6-heading-tags-that-cost-me-citations--geoysryw0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GEOYsryW0.png og:image:alt: How to Run an AI Extractability Audit on Your Site (I Found 6 Heading Tags That Cost Me Citations) 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. # How to Run an AI Extractability Audit on Your Site (I Found 6 Heading Tags That Cost Me Citations) **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical walkthrough of running an AI extractability audit to improve how AI assistants cite your web pages. The core finding: UI card components emitting h2/h3 heading tags pollute the page's heading census, diluting the ratio of question-format headings and causing low extractability scores. The fix is ARIA heading demotion — replacing literal heading tags with paragraphs carrying role="heading" and aria-level attributes, preserving screen reader accessibility while removing the false outline from HTML parsers. A Python script using BeautifulSoup audits heading structure and scores pages on five checks. The tutorial also covers setting up a GitHub Actions CI gate to prevent score regression after future deployments. The author's homepage went from 65/100 to 100/100 after fixing six heading tags across five components, correlating with growth from 671 to 1,600 AI citations over 90 days. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ranks on Google, Not Cited by AI? 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