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How this compares

Linear ranks #3 of 15 scanned project management sites, scoring 82/100 — 8 points above the category average of 74. The category leader scores 85. Immediately above is Asana on 83, and immediately below, Wrike on 80.

Cited by AI answer engines

In the week of Oct 11, 2026, linear.app was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 0 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 2 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 0 of 5 project management prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #2, on “What is the best project management tool for a remote software team of 15?” (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
82 / 100
AEO
56 / 100
Rank
#3 of 15
Cited by AI
2 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
82 / 100
33 pass13 warn2 fail
Scanned
linear.app
0.3s · 48 checks
⚠ PSI_API_KEY not configured
Indexing & crawl100 / 10012✓
  • HTTPS
    served over https://
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  • HTTP response
    200 OK
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  • Time to first byte
    143ms (fast)
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  • Redirect chain
    direct hit, no redirects
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  • robots.txt present
    107 bytes
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  • robots.txt allows this URL
    Googlebot may crawl /
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  • Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
    Sitemap: directive present
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  • sitemap.xml present
    1032 URLs
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  • sitemap.xml uses <lastmod>
    lastmod hints help Googlebot prioritize re-crawls
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  • No noindex directive
    page is indexable
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  • Canonical URL
    self-referential: https://linear.app
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  • lang attribute on <html>
    lang="en"
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Metadata100 / 1008✓
  • Title tag length
    43 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Title tag present
    "Linear – The system for product development"
  • Meta description length
    64 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Meta description present
    "Purpose-built for planning and building products with AI agents."
  • H1 heading
    single H1: "The product development system for teams and agentsThe product developmentsyste…"
  • Subheadings (H2)
    7 <h2> elements
  • Mobile viewport
    viewport meta present
  • Favicon
    icon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)56 / 1002✓5!1✗
  • llms.txt
    9159 bytes — AI crawlers get a curated index
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  • ai.txt (Spawning consent)
    present — explicit AI consent signal
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  • AI crawler stance in robots.txt
    no AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)
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  • FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)
    absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answers
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  • HowTo schema
    absent — HowTo gets cited heavily for procedural queries
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  • Organization schema
    absent — Organization schema lets AI engines name your brand correctly
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  • WebSite / WebApplication schema
    absent — anchors site identity for AI answer engines
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  • Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)
    absent — author credibility is part of Google E-E-A-T and feeds AI citation trust
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Structured data0 / 1001✗
  • JSON-LD structured data present
    no <script type="application/ld+json"> blocks — page has no structured data for rich results
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Social cards60 / 1001✓4!
  • Open Graph (core 5)
    missing: og:url, og:type
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  • og:image dimensions
    no og:image:width / og:image:height — crawlers must download the image to learn dimensions
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  • og:image:alt
    no og:image:alt — sets alt text when image is shared
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  • Twitter Card (core 4)
    twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image all present
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  • twitter:image:alt
    no twitter:image:alt — limits accessibility on the X.com card
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Security93 / 1006✓1!
  • HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security)
    max-age=63072000 (≥1 year)
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  • X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
    nosniff set
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  • Clickjacking protection
    CSP frame-ancestors directive present
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  • Content-Security-Policy
    2645 bytes of policy
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  • Referrer-Policy
    same-origin
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  • Permissions-Policy
    no Permissions-Policy — opportunity to restrict unused browser APIs
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  • No mixed content
    no http:// asset references on this https page
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Performance50 / 1001!
  • PageSpeed Insights API
    PSI_API_KEY not configured
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Mobile90 / 1004✓1!
  • Viewport meta
    width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover
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  • Apple touch icon
    apple-touch-icon link tag present
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  • theme-color meta
    declared (consider pairing with prefers-color-scheme for dark mode)
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  • AMP variant
    no AMP variant — Google no longer requires AMP; informational only
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  • Web app manifest
    manifest link declared
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International50 / 1001!
  • hreflang annotations
    no hreflang declarations — fine for English-only sites; required for localized variants
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