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How this compares

Neon ranks #10 of 15 scanned hosting & cloud sites, scoring 76/100 — 4 points below the category average of 80. The category leader scores 87. Immediately above is Netlify on 81, and immediately below, Deno Deploy on 76.

Cited by AI answer engines

In the week of Oct 11, 2026, neon.tech was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 0 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 1 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 0 of 5 hosting & cloud prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #9, on “What is the best hosting platform for a Node.js API that needs a managed Postgres database?” (Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6)). Citations are engine output at the time of the run, not a b/cited rating, and the prompts are a sample, not a census.

Overall
76 / 100
AEO
56 / 100
Rank
#10 of 15
Cited by AI
1 of 15
prompt × engine pairs, week of Oct 11, 2026
Last scanned
10/11/2026
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Results
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Overall
76 / 100
30 pass19 warn3 fail
Scanned
neon.tech
0.7s · 52 checks
⚠ PSI_API_KEY not configured
Indexing & crawl95 / 10010✓1!
  • HTTPS
    served over https://
    Docs →
  • HTTP response
    200 OK
    Docs →
  • Time to first byte
    125ms (fast)
    Docs →
  • Redirect chain
    1 redirect (acceptable)
    Docs →
  • robots.txt present
    300 bytes
    Docs →
  • robots.txt allows this URL
    Googlebot may crawl /
    Docs →
  • Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
    Sitemap: directive present
    Docs →
  • sitemap.xml present
    sitemap index with 3 child sitemap(s)
    Docs →
  • No noindex directive
    page is indexable
    Docs →
  • Canonical URL
    canonical points elsewhere: https://neon.com
    Docs →
  • lang attribute on <html>
    lang="en"
    Docs →
Metadata100 / 1008✓
  • Title tag length
    44 chars — within SERP-display range
    Docs →
  • Title tag present
    "Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents"
  • Meta description length
    140 chars — within SERP-display range
    Docs →
  • Meta description present
    "The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI …"
  • H1 heading
    single H1: "The backend for apps and agents, built to scale on Lakebase Postgres."
  • Subheadings (H2)
    8 <h2> elements
  • Mobile viewport
    viewport meta present
  • Favicon
    icon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)56 / 1002✓5!1✗
  • llms.txt
    41331 bytes — AI crawlers get a curated index
    Docs →
  • ai.txt (Spawning consent)
    missing (optional) — Spawning consent file is not load-bearing for citation, but signals intent
    Docs →
  • AI crawler stance in robots.txt
    no AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)
    Docs →
  • FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)
    absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answers
    Docs →
  • HowTo schema
    absent — HowTo gets cited heavily for procedural queries
    Docs →
  • Organization schema
    present
    Docs →
  • WebSite / WebApplication schema
    absent — anchors site identity for AI answer engines
    Docs →
  • Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)
    absent — author credibility is part of Google E-E-A-T and feeds AI citation trust
    Docs →
Structured data75 / 1003✓3!
  • JSON-LD structured data present
    1 JSON-LD block(s)
    Docs →
  • JSON-LD valid JSON
    all blocks parsed cleanly
    Docs →
  • Organization or WebSite schema
    Organization
    Docs →
  • Sitelinks searchbox (SearchAction)
    no SearchAction — your site can't opt into the sitelinks searchbox feature
    Docs →
  • BreadcrumbList
    no BreadcrumbList — Google may not show your breadcrumb path in SERP
    Docs →
  • Content-specific schema in use
    no content-type schema (Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo, …) — opportunity for rich results
    Docs →
Social cards70 / 1002✓3!
  • Open Graph (core 5)
    og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type all present
    Docs →
  • og:image dimensions
    no og:image:width / og:image:height — crawlers must download the image to learn dimensions
    Docs →
  • og:image:alt
    no og:image:alt — sets alt text when image is shared
    Docs →
  • Twitter Card (core 4)
    twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image all present
    Docs →
  • twitter:image:alt
    no twitter:image:alt — limits accessibility on the X.com card
    Docs →
Security50 / 1002✓3!2✗
  • HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security)
    max-age=63072000 (≥1 year)
    Docs →
  • X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
    header missing
    Docs →
  • Clickjacking protection
    no X-Frame-Options and no CSP frame-ancestors — clickjacking risk
    Docs →
  • Content-Security-Policy
    no CSP header — strong defense-in-depth signal
    Docs →
  • Referrer-Policy
    no Referrer-Policy — browsers will use defaults that leak origin
    Docs →
  • Permissions-Policy
    no Permissions-Policy — opportunity to restrict unused browser APIs
    Docs →
  • No mixed content
    no http:// asset references on this https page
    Docs →
Performance50 / 1001!
  • PageSpeed Insights API
    PSI_API_KEY not configured
    Docs →
Mobile80 / 1003✓2!
  • Viewport meta
    width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
    Docs →
  • Apple touch icon
    apple-touch-icon link tag present
    Docs →
  • theme-color meta
    no theme-color — mobile browser chrome uses default color
    Docs →
  • AMP variant
    no AMP variant — Google no longer requires AMP; informational only
    Docs →
  • Web app manifest
    manifest link declared
    Docs →
International50 / 1001!
  • hreflang annotations
    no hreflang declarations — fine for English-only sites; required for localized variants
    Docs →

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