Can an audit see every AI visibility control?
It explains an AI visibility control that cannot be checked from outside the site.
What Check Engine measures
This is an explanatory notice rather than a page-content test. It reads the saved access table and suppresses the notice when that nonempty table blocks every citation-critical crawler. Otherwise the notice explains that an outside audit cannot observe the relevant provider-side control. There is no numeric score, content ratio or page-length cutoff in this test.
The site access table determines whether the explanation is relevant. Crawled article text cannot reveal the provider-side setting, so a larger sample does not make that setting observable.
How to read the result
This result is an explanatory notice. You need account access to check the private setting. A suppressed notice also leaves that setting unmeasured.
Why it matters
An outside audit can only report what it can observe. A provider's private control needs review inside that account. Record the access policy there and use public requests to check the behaviour they can show.
How to fix it
Review the relevant provider account and its own settings with the person who manages them. Record the policy you intend and check it against the public crawler rules separately. Use public access tests for public access questions. Avoid treating a clean crawl as proof of a private account setting that the crawler cannot read.
AI search visibility, explained
What we found in field audits
Problems in AI search visibility were found on 14 of the 14 sites we audited. These are area totals. Read the field-audit method.
Method note
backend/seo_engine/checks/ai_visibility.py, unmeasurable_optout, revision 0bb8e8d3.
Common questions
Can a public audit read private AI provider settings?
No. A provider-side control is outside what this audit can observe. Account access is needed to review that choice.
Why might the private AI control notice be absent?
A nonempty access table blocking every citation-critical crawler suppresses it. That leaves the private setting unmeasured.
Does the AI opt-out notice assign a content score?
No. There is no numeric score in this test. The notice explains an observation limit rather than grading your copy.