How is this check scored?
Every threshold on this page comes from one source: the citation-readiness scorer Gadex publishes. Per Gadex's own build, the weights below are read directly from that scorer and a test fails the build if the documented figure stops matching the applied one. A pass earns the full 3 points, a warning earns half, a fail earns none.
| Result | How it is decided |
|---|---|
| Pass | An HTML table, or two or more consecutive pipe-delimited rows. |
| Note | No table found. Carries no weight and is excluded from the score entirely. |
Why does this check exist?
A table states relationships explicitly. Which option costs what, which platform supports which feature — expressed as rows and columns, that survives extraction intact, where the same comparison in prose has to be reconstructed.
Tables also answer comparative questions directly, and comparative questions are a large share of what people ask an assistant.
The absence of a table is not a defect, which is why this is the only check that can return an unscored note. Plenty of good pages have nothing worth tabulating, and a check that concedes as much must not deduct points for it.
How do you fix it?
- Tabulate comparisons you are already making in prose. If a paragraph contains "whereas" and two numbers, it is probably a table.
- Use real table markup. An aligned block of text or an image of a table is invisible to extraction.
- Do not add a table to gain three points. A page with nothing to compare should have no table, and the check is built so that costs you nothing.
How often do pages fail this check?
Per Gadex's own measurement across the 91 content pages on this site, using the checker published at /tools/ai-search-visibility-checker/: 16 pass, 0 carry a warning, and 0 fail. Per that same run, 0 per cent of Gadex pages have something to fix on this check alone.
Those figures include the pages Gadex fails. A checker whose author exempts itself from the checking is marketing rather than measurement, so the numbers are generated from the built site on every deploy and the build fails if the published figures stop matching what Gadex actually scores. When Gadex fixes pages, the numbers move on their own.
What does this check miss?
- A note is excluded from both the numerator and the denominator, so a page with no table can still reach 100. An earlier version left it in the denominator and silently capped the maximum.
- The check does not read the table. An empty or decorative one passes.
- Layout tables would also pass, though those are rare in modern markup.
Where does this guidance come from?
The scoring rules are Gadex's. The reasoning about why these properties matter draws on the platforms' own published guidance:
- Google Search Central: creating helpful, reliable, people-first content — on self-evident expertise, sourcing, and who the content is for.
- Google Search Central: Article structured data — on author and date fields, and what they are used for.
- OpenAI: bots and crawlers — on how ChatGPT fetches and attributes pages it surfaces.
How we measured this
The counts above come from running the Gadex scorer over the built HTML of every content page on this site, reading each page's main content region only — nav, header and footer links are excluded, because a visitor pastes an article rather than a whole document. Legal boilerplate, the 404 page and generated tool result renderings are excluded as pages where the score would be meaningless. Per that run, the 91 pages counted are the ones a reader could plausibly ask an assistant to summarise.
The scoring thresholds on this page are read from the same module the tool runs, and a test fails the build if the weight documented here stops matching the weight the scorer applies. What none of this can tell you is whether an answer engine will cite a page: citation depends on the model, the prompt, the index and the competing sources, none of which is visible in your markup.
Common questions
Why is this the only unscored check?
Because it is the only one whose absence is genuinely neutral. Every other check describes something a page should have; a table is something some pages should have. Scoring it either way would misrepresent one group of pages.
Does a table help if the same information is in the prose?
Usually yes, for retrieval. Duplicating a comparison as both prose and a table gives an extraction step a clean structure to lift while keeping the narrative for readers.