99designs.com 73 B
🛡️ SEO 57 🤖 GEO 81 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 94

99designs.com — Global SEODiff Score 73/100

99designs.com
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With a solid 78/100 ACRI, 99designs.com is well-positioned for AI search — better than 88% of sites in the Radar. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), 99designs.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The low ghost ratio (5%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. Token bloat registers at 6.6× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. Structured data coverage is solid at 2 blocks, covering core entities — expanding to include FAQ or Breadcrumb schemas could strengthen the profile further. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

73
B — Global SEODiff Score
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🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)57 × 0.25 = 14.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)81 × 0.40 = 32.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)94 × 0.15 = 14.1
Weighted sum = 14.2 + 32.4 + 11.8 + 14.1
Global SEODiff Score = 73 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
50
Structure
avg 35
44
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 1%
Rank #14188
+11 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 12%
Score 78/100

99designs.com shows stronger AI visibility than traditional SEO ranking. Great AI foundation to build on. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why 99designs.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage2 blocks
Token bloat6.6×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

We check what AI crawlers miss when they skip JavaScript execution.

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Traditional SEO

57/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

46 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

199 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://99designs.com/
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en-us
  • ✅ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Logos, Web, Graphic Design & More. | 99designs
  • ✓ og:description — The global creative platform for custom graphic design: logos, websites and more. Hire a talented designer or start a design contest. 500k+ happy customers have used 99designs to grow their business.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary
📐 How the SEO Pillar score is calculated

SEO Pillar = Title (20 pts) + Meta Desc (20 pts) + Heading Hierarchy (20 pts) + Indexability (20 pts) + Social/OG (20 pts)

Each sub-score is derived from the checks above. Canonical tag, lang attribute, og:image, and a single H1 are the highest-impact items.

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AI Readiness / GEO

81/100 40 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

This pillar aggregates citation share, hallucination risk, bot access, schema health, and content extractability. The individual diagnostic sections below contribute to this score.

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Citation Alternatives

Research
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Insight: In the infrastructure sector, safely.co.jp (ACRI: 90) currently has stronger AI extractability. AI models tend to prefer sources with higher semantic structure and schema coverage. Domains with ACRI < 40 see 3.5× more hallucinations. Read the research →
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59
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. safely.co.jp has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses WordPress. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
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Hallucination Risk

Research

Is AI lying about your brand? This panel measures how likely LLMs are to hallucinate facts when extracting information from your page.

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🤖 Bot Access Matrix

GPTBot (OpenAI)
Allowed
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Allowed
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Allowed
Google-Extended
Allowed
Googlebot
Allowed

👻 Rendering (Ghost Ratio) Docs

Ghost Ratio 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 50/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 68 elements (68 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words896
Raw Density7.6%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks2 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

1/7 schema types detected
✅ Organization
❌ Product/Service
❌ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
❌ WebSite
💡Product / Service schema missing. AI models don't know this is a SaaS product. Add Product or SoftwareApplication schema so AI understands what you offer and can surface pricing/features.
💡BreadcrumbList schema missing. AI cannot understand your site hierarchy or how pages relate to each other.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.
💡WebSite schema missing. Add WebSite + SearchAction so Google can generate a Sitelinks Search Box for your brand in AI results.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

66
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability66/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostLow (30/100) — efficient for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

15%
🗑️ 85%
Useful Content (24.1 KB)Bloat (135.5 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio6.6× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context68% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage45 / 66 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 84.9% · SNR: 0.18 · Signal: 6162 / Noise: 34690 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of 99designs.com and produced this structured business intelligence. Fields marked SEMANTIC VOID indicate information the AI could not find — a critical gap in your site’s machine-readability.

Core Offering
99designs is a global creative platform connecting clients with freelance designers for logo design, branding, and other creative projects.
Target Audience
Small to medium-sized businesses, marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and individuals seeking design services; freelance designers.
Pricing Model
Subscription-based, with tiered plans ranging from basic to premium, offering varying levels of access to designers and project features. Prices not explicitly stated, but implied to be per project.
🔗 Integration Partners
TikTokLinkedIn
🏆 Competitive Moat
Large global network of freelance designers, streamlined project management platform, and a focus on social impact design.
📊 Content Depth
7/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Blog posts about design trendsCase studies showcasing design projectsTemplate comparison pages (implied)Integration directory pages (implied)
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Lack of structured FAQ schema
• Thin landing pages for features
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time535 ms
Raw HTML Size159.6 KB
Visible Text Size24.1 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

535 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

Google considers <200 ms "good". AI crawlers may have even shorter timeouts.

📦 Page Weight

1032
DOM nodes
160 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, no-cache
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 Tracker Tax

0
tracker scripts
0
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
📐 How the Performance Pillar score is calculated

Perf Pillar = TTFB (35 pts) + Page Weight (25 pts) + Cache/CDN (20 pts) + Tracker Tax (20 pts)

TTFB <200 ms = full marks. DOM >3000 or payload >300 KB incurs heavy penalties. Tracker scripts beyond 5 reduce score.

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Architecture & Trust

94/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://99designs.com/sitemap-index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

104
internal links
7
external links
Good internal linking — helps crawlers discover content

🔒 Security & Trust

  • ✓ HSTS header (Strict-Transport-Security)
  • ✓ Content-Security-Policy header
  • ✓ HTTP status 200 OK (got 200)

♿ Accessibility Signals

  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en-us
  • ✓ Meta viewport for mobile
  • ✓ Single H1 for screen readers
📐 How the Architecture Pillar score is calculated

Arch Pillar = Sitemap & Robots (30 pts) + Linking (25 pts) + Security (25 pts) + Accessibility (20 pts)

Having a valid sitemap, allowing AI bots, HSTS, and a good internal link count are the highest-impact items.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 134 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
59
Single-page score
+4
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 134 pages · Range 0–90
Topical Cohesion
7%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
141341
Avg Bloat
23.7×
RAG Fractures [?]
50
⚠️
50 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 50 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases
Press releases | 99designs
pricing 90 2.1× 41890 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/408
99designs Celebrates a Decade of Design Connections
pricing 85 9.2× 866 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/343
99designs and Sharkwater Productions Launch Logo Design Contest for (R)Evolution, New Film by Award-Winning Sharkwate4 Filmmaker Rob Stewart
pricing 85 9.2× 836 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/396
“Survivorman” TV Personality and Musician Les Stroud Taps 99designs to Create Logo for New Album Tour
pricing 85 8.9× 839 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/347
99designs Doubles Monthly Design Contests and Designer Payouts, Adds Key Executives and Staff to Fuel Growth
pricing 85 9.5× 822 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/357
99designs.com Up Against Dropbox and Tumblr for the Best Web Services & Applications in the 14th Annual Webby Awards
pricing 85 9.6× 764 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/401
99designs Launches Comprehensive, End-to-End Book Design Solution for Self-Publishers
pricing 85 9.8× 805 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/402
New Survey Sheds Light on Reality of Today’s “Mompreneur”
pricing 85 8.5× 932 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/parent-entrepreneurs
parent-entrepreneurs
pricing 85 9.2× 871 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/emerging-industries-2021
emerging-industries-2021
pricing 85 9.9× 795 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/334
99designs Pushes Hard Into Asia with Launch of New Singapore Site, Regional Design Community Tour and Hiring of Local Staff
pricing 85 9.7× 823 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/media
In the media | 99designs
pricing 85 5.9× 22750 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/design-without-borders-2022
design-without-borders-2022
pricing 75 11.9× 649 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/346
99designs Launches UK Site, Targets UK Designers and Businesses as Key Step in Global Expansion
pricing 75 11.3× 683 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/parental-leave
parental-leave
pricing 75 13.8× 538 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/329
99designs Surges to Record Growth
pricing 75 12.1× 592 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/isolaid-homegrown
isolaid-homegrown
pricing 75 11.2× 680 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/250m
250m
pricing 75 14.0× 548 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/330
Eventbrite and 99designs Team Up to Offer Graphic Design Support to Event Organizers
pricing 75 11.9× 609 💰 Pricing
https://99designs.com/about/press-releases/398
99designs Celebrates $150 Million USD Designer Payout Milestone
pricing 75 11.9× 640 💰 Pricing
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Health by Sub-Directory
Average ACRI and top issues aggregated by URL path prefix
Path Pages Avg ACRI Ghost % Bloat Top Issue
/about/ 75 71 0% 16.1× High JS Bloat
/pricing/ 52 61 0% 36.8× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 44 0% 52.8× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 134 pages
instagram.com ×124
linkedin.com ×124
facebook.com ×124
pinterest.com ×124
twitter.com ×124
support.99designs.com ×52
businesswire.com ×17
swiftly.com ×5
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite 99designs.com when users ask about topics in this domain's niche? We run entity queries through our 188k-page search index and measure citation probability.

Analyzing citation landscape…

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Bait & Switch Delta

A 3 PAGES

Compares your homepage rendering quality with inner pages. A high drift score means AI crawlers see a polished homepage but degraded inner content — the "bait & switch" that erodes trust.

54
Homepage ACRI
51
Inner Avg ACRI
+3
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
30%
Inner Avg Ghost
2
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
44 40% pricing https://99designs.com/contact
57 20% pricing https://99designs.com/about
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E-E-A-T Trust Signals

B 60/100

Trust indicators extracted from surface pages. These signals help AI systems verify your site's Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

Physical Address
Phone Number
Email Contact
About Page
Contact Page
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Named Leadership
Address: 43 Stewart Street Level 2 Richmond, VIC 3121 Germany Berlin 99designs by Vista GmbH Salzufer 6 10
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Citation Profile

7 DOMAINS

Outbound citation patterns across surface-crawled pages. Sites that cite diverse, authoritative sources signal higher E-E-A-T to AI systems.

18
Total Links
7
Unique Domains
6.0
Avg/Page
39%
Diversity
facebook.com twitter.com linkedin.com pinterest.com instagram.com support.99designs.com open.spotify.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 63.5

AI trust scores for the domains 99designs.com links to. Citing high-trust sources lifts your own credibility signal.

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to 99designs.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

Add WebSite + SearchAction JSON-LD
High Impact ⏱ 5 min
Enables the Sitelinks Search Box in Google and allows AI to understand your site structure.
html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "WebSite",
  "name": "99designs",
  "url": "https://99designs.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://99designs.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Add FAQ Schema
Medium Impact ⏱ 10 min
FAQ schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs. This is the easiest way to get featured in AI responses.
html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "FAQPage",
  "mainEntity": [
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What is 99designs?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what 99designs does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does 99designs work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with 99designs."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for 99designs.com:

Current Score
78
Projected Score
88
Improvement
+10 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +3 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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