bath.ac.uk 68 C
🛡️ SEO 45 🤖 GEO 75 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 82

bath.ac.uk — Global SEODiff Score 68/100

bath.ac.uk
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bath.ac.uk achieves a 65/100 on the AI-Crawler Reality Index, reflecting above-average readiness for AI-driven discovery. In the education sector, bath.ac.uk outperforms the average (57), 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. With a 3.2× bloat ratio, the page delivers its content without excessive boilerplate, giving AI systems a clean extraction path. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

68
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (45) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 21, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 3 snapshots
Mar 5 Mar 11
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)45 × 0.25 = 11.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)75 × 0.40 = 30.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)82 × 0.15 = 12.3
Weighted sum = 11.2 + 30.0 + 14.8 + 12.3
Global SEODiff Score = 68 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
25
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 1%
Rank #13341
+44 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 45%
Score 65/100

bath.ac.uk punches above its weight in AI — AI visibility exceeds Google ranking. This is a competitive moat worth protecting. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why bath.ac.uk ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat3.2×

Fastest improvements

  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • Create an llms.txt file so AI crawlers can discover your content structure without heavy crawling. Generate llms.txt →
  • Run a full entropy audit to find which DOM regions waste the most tokens. Run Entropy Audit →
🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

45/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

18 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

94 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 11
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 11
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✗ Canonical tag present
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ➖ Hreflang tags — N/A (single language site)
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✗ og:title
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✓ 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

75/100 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
💡
Insight: In the education sector, educationdirectory.com.au (ACRI: 86) 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 →
bath.ac.uk
46
Your ACRI Score
86
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. educationdirectory.com.au has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses Custom / Proprietary. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
🚨

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 25/100 — Low
Structured Elements 20 elements (20 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1066
Raw Density1.9%
💡Low structure score (25/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 20 list items, 0 table rows, 0 table headers. Convert features into <ul> lists and data into <table> elements to help AI models extract structured information.

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks0 — No JSON-LD detected

Schema Coverage Map

0/7 schema types detected
❌ Organization
❌ Product/Service
❌ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
❌ WebSite
💡Organization schema missing. AI models cannot identify your brand entity. Without it, your brand won't appear in Knowledge Panels or be associated with your content.
💡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

52
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability52/100 — 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

31%
🗑️ 69%
Useful Content (15.7 KB)Bloat (35.1 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.2× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context96% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage24 / 25 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

45 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 69.0% · SNR: 0.45 · Signal: 4027 / Noise: 8976 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of bath.ac.uk 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
The University of Bath provides information about its history, research, facilities, governance, and community, offering a comprehensive overview of the institution.
Target Audience
Prospective students, current students, alumni, staff, researchers, journalists, and the general public interested in the University of Bath.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Extensive historical archive and comprehensive institutional information.
📊 Content Depth
5/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Limited SEO optimization for individual pages
• Lack of structured data markup
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
ServerApache
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time844 ms
Raw HTML Size50.8 KB
Visible Text Size15.7 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

844 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

516
DOM nodes
51 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=600
  • ✗ 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

82/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.bath.ac.uk/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

53
internal links
10
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 140 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
46
Single-page score
+20
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
66
Avg across 140 pages · Range 0–82
Topical Cohesion
15%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
110367
Avg Bloat
10.7×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/sdpr-and-career-conversation/
SDPR and Career Conversation
pricing 82 4.2× 1337 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/applying-to-the-academic-technology-approval-scheme-atas/
Applying to the Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS)
pricing 82 4.4× 1142 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/visa-reimbursement-scheme/
Visa Reimbursement Scheme
pricing 82 4.3× 1169 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/using-other-libraries/
Using other libraries
blog 82 3.4× 2178
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/communicating-your-messages-to-colleagues-across-the-university/
Communicating your messages to colleagues across the University
pricing 82 4.5× 1320 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/keeping-your-onedrive-organised/
Keeping your OneDrive organised
blog 82 4.2× 1659
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/nominate-someone-for-the-doctoral-recognition-awards/
Nominate someone for the Doctoral Recognition Awards
blog 82 5.0× 1965
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/staff-networks-and-groups/
Staff Networks and Groups
pricing 82 4.2× 2040 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/academic-engagement-monitoring-for-student-visa-holders/
Academic engagement monitoring for Student visa holders
pricing 82 3.4× 1758 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/guidance-and-advice-on-eu-settlement-scheme/
Guidance and advice on EU Settlement Scheme
blog 82 3.4× 1734
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/understanding-your-tuition-fee-status/
Understanding your tuition fee status
pricing 82 3.6× 1824 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/supporting-students-and-staff-during-ramadan/
Supporting students and staff during Ramadan
blog 82 4.4× 1190
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/arabic-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
Arabic courses for members of the public
blog 82 5.0× 1075
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/spanish-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
Spanish courses for members of the public
pricing 82 4.6× 1292 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/german-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
German courses for members of the public
pricing 82 4.2× 1457 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/mandarin-chinese-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
Mandarin Chinese courses for members of the public
pricing 82 4.4× 1336 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/italian-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
Italian courses for members of the public
blog 82 4.9× 1139
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/french-courses-for-members-of-the-public/
French courses for members of the public
pricing 82 4.3× 1382 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/submitting-an-individual-mitigating-circumstances-imc-claim/
Submitting an Individual Mitigating Circumstances (IMC) claim
pricing 82 5.0× 970 💰 Pricing
https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/buying-additional-annual-leave/
Buying additional annual leave
pricing 82 4.0× 1285 💰 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
/guides/ 131 70 0% 11.2× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 67 0% 8.2× High JS Bloat
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 67 0% 13.5× High JS Bloat
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite bath.ac.uk 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 2 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.

67
Homepage ACRI
67
Inner Avg ACRI
0
ACRI Delta
0%
Homepage Ghost
0%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
67 0% pricing https://bath.ac.uk/contact
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E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 30/100

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
🔗

Citation Profile

19 DOMAINS

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

21
Total Links
19
Unique Domains
10.5
Avg/Page
90%
Diversity
facebook.com youtube.com thetimes.com thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk theguardian.com topuniversities.com go.bath.ac.uk bath.us4.list-manage.com openstreetmap.org linkedin.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 38.0

AI trust scores for the domains bath.ac.uk links to. Citing high-trust sources lifts your own credibility signal.

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Add Organization JSON-LD
High Impact ⏱ 5 min
AI models cannot identify your brand entity without Organization schema. This is the #1 fix for AI visibility.
html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "Ac",
  "url": "https://bath.ac.uk",
  "logo": "https://bath.ac.uk/lens/125/assets/university-of-bath/images/favicon/apple/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png",
  "sameAs": []
}
</script>
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": "Ac",
  "url": "https://bath.ac.uk",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://bath.ac.uk/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 Ac?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Ac does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Ac work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Ac."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for bath.ac.uk:

Current Score
65
Projected Score
78
Improvement
+13 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

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

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