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Shopify SKU Visibility Grader.

Paste your Shopify URL. eCommerce Insights grades five top products across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. One-page PDF, 90 seconds, free.

Free. Samples 5 PDPs via /products.json. May take 30-60 seconds.
What you get free
  • Brand-level average AI-visibility score across 5 sampled PDPs (0-100)
  • Robots.txt verdict for 15 AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.)
  • Top 3 brand-wide findings; per-PDP scores and remaining findings unlock with email

How it works

  1. Paste your Shopify store URL. Drop your storefront URL into the form. eCommerce Insights reads your sitemap and picks your top five revenue SKUs automatically, or you can paste specific product URLs.
  2. eCommerce Insights crawls your top five SKUs. The grader fetches each PDP, parses schema and metafields, and records structured data coverage, description depth, review signal, and canonical tags.
  3. eCommerce Insights queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Ten category-typical buyer prompts per SKU are run against the three most commerce-relevant AI engines. Citation and recommendation data is captured per prompt.
  4. eCommerce Insights delivers a per-SKU score plus recommendations in 90 seconds. A one-page PDF report lands in your inbox. Scores 0-100 per SKU, gap analysis, and one concrete fix per product.

Sample output

Here is what the report looks like for a fictional apparel brand called Ravenback. Five SKUs, score bar, status badge, one-line recommendation. Scores and SKU names are illustrative.

REPORT · SHOPIFY SKU VISIBILITY Ravenback — 5-SKU visibility sample GRADED · Q2 2026 Founder ParkaSKU · RB-PARKA-00181CITEDGood schema, missing aggregateRating · add review block. Signature Heavyweight TeeSKU · RB-TEE-00164PARTIALDescription reads like a catalog blurb · rewrite for answer-coverage. Cascade Field JacketSKU · RB-JKT-00344WEAKMissing material, care, origin metafields · add three fields. Terminal Wool CardiganSKU · RB-KNT-00229MISSINGZero citations in ChatGPT or Perplexity · rebuild PDP from scratch. Trail BeltSKU · RB-ACC-01475CITEDCited in Perplexity · add Google-Extended-friendly FAQ block.

What the data means

The 0-100 score is a composite of five signals, weighted by what actually drives AI citations in eCommerce Insights' observed crawl and answer data as of Q1 2026. Structured data completeness is 25% of the score; content depth and answer-coverage is 25%; review signal is 15%; entity clarity (brand, manufacturer, SKU, GTIN) is 20%; crawl surface (llms.txt, canonical tags, robots directives) is 15%.

Status badges collapse the score to four categories. Cited means the SKU appears in AI answers for category-typical prompts. Partial means the brand is mentioned but the specific product is not. Weak means the PDP is missing two or more foundational elements. Missing means zero citations across tested prompts. The recommendation line names the single highest-leverage fix — rewrite the description, add a missing schema field, add a review block.

For the full methodology and weighting, see the Product AI visibility guide and the AI visibility score glossary entry.

Why eCommerce Insights built this

Most AI visibility tools score brands, not products. That misses the actual problem. A D2C brand can have healthy overall AI brand mentions while its best-seller is absent from every shopping answer. The grader surfaces that mismatch at the SKU level, which is where the revenue lives. See the brand-monitoring vs SKU-tracking guide for the deeper argument.

The free grader exists because eCommerce Insights wants Shopify brands to learn how AI engines actually read their catalog before any commercial conversation starts. The tool is useful even for brands that never buy the full product. That is the whole point.

For the full catalog

Run this across every SKU, every week.

The free tool answers a one-off question. The full eCommerce Insights product runs every check against your whole Shopify catalog continuously, flags regressions, and pushes approved fixes back to Shopify admin. Fourteen-day trial, no credit card.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need to install anything to use the Shopify SKU visibility checker?
No installation needed. The grader reads your public storefront, your sitemap, and your product JSON-LD. No Shopify app, no admin permissions, no theme edit. You paste a URL and eCommerce Insights does the rest. The full eCommerce Insights product uses the Shopify admin API to push approved changes; the free grader is read-only.
Which five products does the Shopify SKU Visibility Grader check?
By default, the grader picks your top five SKUs by revenue signal — the products most prominently linked from your homepage and collections. You can also paste specific product URLs if you want to audit a hero line or a new launch. The graded SKUs are listed in the final report so there is no guessing.
What AI engines does the Shopify SKU Visibility Grader query?
The free grader queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, three engines that together account for the majority of AI-driven product research as of early 2026. The full eCommerce Insights product adds Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Rufus, and runs the checks weekly rather than on demand.
Can I re-run the Shopify SKU Visibility Grader weekly?
You can run the free grader as often as you like, though a single email address is rate-limited to one run per day. For weekly automated tracking across the full catalog, the paid eCommerce Insights product sends a Monday-morning digest covering every SKU and every tracked engine, not just five SKUs and three engines.
How does the free Shopify SKU Visibility Grader differ from the full eCommerce Insights product?
The free grader checks five SKUs, three engines, once. The paid eCommerce Insights product checks every SKU, every tracked engine, every week, and ships diff-style PDP recommendations that push back to Shopify through the admin API. Same scoring model; different coverage and cadence.

Grade five SKUs free. Grade every SKU on eCommerce Insights.

The waitlist opens the one-shot grader. The free trial opens the whole catalog.