Ahrefs Adds AI Discoverability Category to Site Audit

Ahrefs has outlined five updates for September 2026, including a new AI Discoverability issue category in Site Audit and Page types in Site Explorer. The company introduced the changes in a post on its blog. The available summary names those two additions but does not identify the other three updates.

AI Discoverability is described as a new category of issues within Site Audit. The summary does not list the individual issues included in the category or explain how Ahrefs assesses them. It also does not provide guidance on their relative importance or the steps users might take after reviewing them.

The second named addition, Page types, appears in Site Explorer. Beyond naming the feature and the product in which it appears, the available summary does not explain how Page types works, which types are included or how users can apply it. Those details would need to be checked against the full announcement before drawing conclusions about its use.

The distinction between the two additions is worth keeping in mind: AI Discoverability is presented as an issue category in Site Audit, while Page types is named as an addition to Site Explorer. The summary does not say whether the two features are connected. It also does not give enough information to compare them with earlier Ahrefs features or establish how either one changes an existing workflow.

What this means for marketers

Marketers who use Ahrefs can start by checking the full announcement for the details missing from the summary, including the issues covered by AI Discoverability and the options available under Page types. They can then assess each addition separately in the relevant product. Until those details are clear, the feature names alone are not a basis for deciding what to change, which issues to prioritize or how to incorporate the updates into a reporting process.