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Original data on what AI engines actually see when they read a website's images and video. No cherry-picking, methodology shown in the open.

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The Index · 001

We scanned 8 real websites. 43% of their visual assets are invisible to AI.

179 images and video combined, 8 live domains, zero cherry-picking. Full per-site breakdown of what's actually machine-readable and what isn't.

2026-07-14
Reading the Machine

What an AI crawler sees when a homepage is 100% JavaScript

We fetched a real homepage the way GPTBot does — no browser, no JS engine. The response was an empty body tag. Here's exactly what came back.

2026-07-14
Defining Visual GEO

What Visual GEO actually means (and why it isn't image SEO)

Two comparison tables and a working glossary: Visual GEO vs. traditional image SEO, and accessibility alt text vs. AI-citation alt text.

2026-07-14