ap.org 75 B
🛡️ SEO 75 🤖 GEO 77 ⚡ Perf 52 🏗️ Arch 99

ap.org — Global SEODiff Score 75/100

ap.org
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At 78/100, the ACRI for ap.org indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), ap.org performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Its server-rendered architecture ensures AI crawlers receive complete HTML on first request, a key advantage for extractability. The 9.5× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

75
B — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (52) is your bottleneck.
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📈 ACRI Trend 8 snapshots
Mar 4 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
📉 Mar 12 ACRI -1 (62→61)
📈 Mar 10 ACRI +1 (61→62)
🔄 Mar 9 Content change detected
📉 Mar 7 ACRI -1 (62→61)
📈 Mar 4 ACRI +1 (61→62)
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)75 × 0.25 = 18.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)77 × 0.40 = 30.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)52 × 0.20 = 10.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)99 × 0.15 = 14.8
Weighted sum = 18.8 + 30.8 + 10.4 + 14.8
Global SEODiff Score = 75 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
41
Structure
avg 35
42
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #4365
+12 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 12%
Score 78/100

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

Why ap.org ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat9.5×

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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🛡️

Traditional SEO

75/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

67 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

113 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 8
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.ap.org/
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ✅ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — The Associated Press | Video, Photo, Text, Audio & Data News Agency
  • ✓ og:description — Discover a world of unbiased journalism, in-depth analysis, and real-time updates from every corner of the globe.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary_large_image
📐 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

77/100 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 →
ap.org
61
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

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

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 41/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 191 elements (191 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3736
Raw Density5.1%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

3/7 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.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

58
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability58/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (60/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (40.4 KB)Bloat (343.6 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.5× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context95% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage36 / 38 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: 89.5% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 10341 / Noise: 87952 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of ap.org 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
Guidelines for accurate and unbiased news reporting and editing
Target Audience
Journalists, news editors, content creators
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Comprehensive standards for unbiased and accurate journalism
📊 Content Depth
10/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time729 ms
Raw HTML Size384.0 KB
Visible Text Size40.4 KB

Performance & Speed

52/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

729 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2107
DOM nodes
384 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=600, must-revalidate
  • ✓ CDN cache status → DYNAMIC
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 Tracker Tax

1
tracker scripts
1
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
google-analytics
📐 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

99/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.ap.org/sitemap_index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

190
internal links
18
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
  • ✓ 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 1010 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
61
Single-page score
+4
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
65
Avg across 1010 pages · Range 0–85
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
1161393
Avg Bloat
34.7×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.ap.org/about/news-values-and-principles/telling-the-story/
Telling the Story | The Associated Press
pricing 85 6.7× 6040 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/uncategorized/2015/myanmar-fisherman-goes-home-after-22-years-as-a-slave/
Myanmar fisherman goes home after 22 years as a slave | The Associated Press
pricing 85 9.0× 4185 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2019/ex-archbishop-protected-culture-of-clergy-sex-abuse-on-guam/
AP investigation: Guam’s ex-archbishop protected culture of clergy sex abuse of children | The Associated Press
pricing 85 8.5× 4561 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/uncategorized/2015/global-supermarkets-selling-shrimp-peeled-by-slaves/
Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves | The Associated Press
pricing 85 8.3× 4614 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/uncategorized/2015/ap-investigation-slaves-may-have-caught-the-fish-you-bought/
AP Investigation: Slaves may have caught the fish you bought | The Associated Press
pricing 85 8.3× 4594 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/uncategorized/2016/hawaiian-seafood-caught-by-foreign-crews-confined-on-boats/
Hawaiian seafood caught by foreign crews confined on boats | The Associated Press
pricing 85 8.5× 4484 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2020/belarus-protest-coverage-and-ganges-photo-essay/
Dual honorees: Stunning coverage of Belarus protests, and a Ganges River odyssey | The Associated Press
pricing 85 9.8× 3956 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2017/amid-booming-economy-homeless-soars-on-west-coast/
AP photographers show the despair, and hopes, of homeless along US West Coast | The Associated Press
pricing 75 11.1× 3343 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-states/2021/wv-addiction-crisis-resurgent-amid-covid/
AP team embeds in West Virginia city seeing a resurgence of addiction amid the pandemic | The Associated Press
pricing 75 10.2× 3677 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2020/us-protests-and-brazil-coronavirus-coverage/
Coverage of Floyd protests, Brazil’s virus toll, commands global attention | The Associated Press
pricing 75 12.9× 2892 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/uncategorized/2017/fishing-slaves-no-more-but-freedom-brings-new-struggles/
Fishing slaves no more but freedom brings new struggles | The Associated Press
pricing 75 10.5× 3464 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2021/ap-chauvin-trial-and-tigray-family/
Chauvin trial verdict, a Tigray refugee family: Diverse coverage exemplifies AP at its best | The Associated Press
pricing 75 12.8× 2884 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2017/50-state-investigation-reveals-a-patchwork-of-justice-for-juvenile-lifers/
50-state investigation reveals arbitrary patchwork of justice for juvenile lifers | The Associated Press
pricing 75 13.6× 2639 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-states/2021/impact-of-tulsa-race-massacre-100-years-later/
Multiformat team delivers expansive AP coverage during centennial of Tulsa Race Massacre | The Associated Press
pricing 75 11.9× 3216 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2021/immigration-packages-from-us-mexico-border/
A master class: AP teams deliver sweeping coverage of the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border | The Associated Press
pricing 75 12.5× 3010 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2020/photo-stories-of-lives-lost-to-the-pandemic/
Stories of lives lost, told with photos: 2 remarkable projects share Best of the Week | The Associated Press
pricing 75 11.9× 3135 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/about/corporate-archives/exhibits/
Exhibits | The Associated Press
pricing 72 18.2× 3036 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes/
Pulitzer Prizes won by the AP | The Associated Press
pricing 72 13.8× 3691 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2019/d-day-75-years-later/
Rich, compelling coverage of D-Day 75 years on, an all-formats collaboration across 2 continents | The Associated Press
pricing 72 16.3× 2134 💰 Pricing
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2017/shaky-faith-and-depths-of-despair-in-trump-country/
Deep reporting, startling images reveal shaky faith and depths of despair in Trump Country | The Associated Press
pricing 72 17.3× 2005 💰 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
/news-highlights/ 479 68 0% 25.0× High JS Bloat
/about/ 11 70 0% 22.8× High JS Bloat
/elections/ 5 67 0% 26.4× High JS Bloat
/solutions/ 4 67 0% 26.8× High JS Bloat
/insights/ 1 67 0% 24.6× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 1010 pages
workflow.ap.org ×997
facebook.com ×997
developer.ap.org ×997
linkedin.com ×997
youtube.com ×997
customerzone.ap.org ×997
twitter.com ×997
apnews.com ×997
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

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 Ap?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Ap does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Ap work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Ap."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for ap.org:

Current Score
78
Projected Score
84
Improvement
+6 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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