Frequently Asked Questions

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the practice of making your website rank well in traditional search engines like Google. AEO (Ask Engine Optimization) is the emerging discipline of making your content understandable and citable by AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — which are increasingly where users go for answers instead of a search results page. Analysts expect a significant portion of searches to shift to AI chat in the coming years. Screaming Egg helps you optimize for both realities simultaneously, because your site needs to perform in both.

No — and that's intentional. We focus exclusively on on-page optimization and go very deep into it. We also combine analytics, session recordings, and UX signals that traditional SEO tools ignore. What we don't do is off-page: we won't track your SERP positions, keyword rankings, backlink profiles, or guide your blogging strategy. Think of Screaming Egg as the tool that tells you exactly what to fix on your site — your existing tools can continue to tell you what keywords to chase.

The big three: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), and Gemini (Google). We query all three simultaneously and surface how each one understands, scores, and summarises your content — including where they disagree, which is often the most revealing part.

This feature is currently in active development. The idea is to install Screaming Egg as a plugin directly into your version control and deployment pipeline — with native support planned for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and others. Every pull request will trigger an analysis of the preview deployment, and results will be posted as a PR comment, so your team can catch regressions before they ever reach production.

It depends on what's being checked. Some results — like on-page SEO — come back in seconds. The AI consensus analysis typically takes a minute or two as we're querying multiple models in parallel. You'll see progress in real time as each module completes. Honestly, the best way to understand it is to try it.

Each score reflects how well your page performs across a specific dimension — SEO health, AEO readiness, UX signals, or content clarity. Scores are calibrated so that 70+ is solid, and anything below 50 has meaningful problems worth addressing. What matters most isn't the score itself but the prioritised list of issues and fixes that come with it.

Right now, everything is free. Enjoy it while it lasts. We're still building out the admin and subscription management infrastructure, and we made a deliberate choice to focus on delivering great customer-facing features first. Once all the core features are in place, we'll introduce paid plans — and we'll give everyone plenty of notice.

No. We analyse your site to generate insights and then we're done. We will never use your content to train AI models or share it with third parties without your explicit permission. Full stop.

All of them. Screaming Egg is completely framework-agnostic — it works with Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, Gatsby, WordPress, Webflow, plain HTML, and anything else you can deploy to a URL. For CI/CD integration specifically, as long as you can expose the diff of your pull request changes, our tool will understand the nature of those changes and return its analysis accordingly.

As often as your site changes significantly. If you're shipping frequently, the CI/CD integration will handle this automatically. If you update your site manually every few weeks, running an analysis after each meaningful update is a good habit. Either way, we'll occasionally send you an email when we've added new checks or improved our analysis — those are good prompts to run a fresh scan even if nothing on your end has changed.