cbsaustin.com 34 F
🛡️ SEO 20 🤖 GEO 56 ⚡ Perf 52 🏗️ Arch 73

cbsaustin.com — Global SEODiff Score 34/100

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cbsaustin.com registers just 15/100 on the ACRI scale — a bottom-tier result indicating systemic AI visibility problems. Within the government vertical, this places cbsaustin.com below the industry average of 57 —, indicating room for competitive improvement. Its server-rendered architecture ensures AI crawlers receive complete HTML on first request, a key advantage for extractability. A 16.3× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. Comprehensive AI crawler restrictions limit this domain's presence in the growing AI search ecosystem.

34
F — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Significant improvement opportunities. Start with Traditional SEO (20).
🎯 Top Fix: Allow GPTBot + ClaudeBot in robots.txt → lift the score cap
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 21, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Feb 24 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
🔄 Mar 21 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 20 Content change detected
📈 Mar 20 ACRI +1 (34→35)
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)20 × 0.25 = 5.0
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)56 × 0.40 = 22.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)52 × 0.20 = 10.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)73 × 0.15 = 10.9
Weighted sum = 5.0 + 22.4 + 10.4 + 10.9
⚠️ Fatal multiplier: All major AI bots blocked → ×0.5
Global SEODiff Score = 34 (F)
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Gatekeeper Rule: Score cannot exceed 15. Both GPTBot and ClaudeBot are blocked in robots.txt. No major AI assistant can cite this site. Allow at least one major AI crawler to lift the cap. See Bot Access →
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
20
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
31
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 4%
Rank #39233
+64 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 67%
Score 15/100

cbsaustin.com 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 cbsaustin.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat16.3×

Fastest improvements

  • Allow GPTBot in robots.txt so AI crawlers can access your pages (see Crawl Access).
  • Allow ClaudeBot (many assistants rely on it) — blocking it often correlates with “AI invisibility.”
  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • Reduce token bloat (navigation/footer/code) so agents reach your main content faster (see Token Bloat).
  • 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.

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🛡️

Traditional SEO

20/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

43 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

305 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 16
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Austin News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News
  • ✓ og:description — KEYE TV CBS Austin is the news, sports and weather leader for the Texas Capitol Region, covering events in the surrounding area including Round Rock Pflugerville, Georgetown, Belton, Killeen, Taylor, Lakeway, Buda, Kyle, San Marcos, Wyldwood, Bastrop, Elgin, Bartlett, Jarrell, Bertram, Burnet and Salado.
  • ✓ 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

56/100 40 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium 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 government sector, gep.com (ACRI: 83) 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 →
cbsaustin.com
35
Your ACRI Score
83
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. gep.com has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses Drupal. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
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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)
Blocked
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Blocked
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡GPTBot is blocked. To appear in ChatGPT citations, add Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.
💡ClaudeBot is blocked. To be cited by Claude, allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt.

👻 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 31/100 — Low
Structured Elements 127 elements (127 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words4508
Raw Density2.8%
💡Low structure score (31/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 127 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

40
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
Critical
Blocklist Risk
Extractability40/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (75/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskCritical — 4 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

6%
🗑️ 94%
Useful Content (27.9 KB)Bloat (427.3 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio16.3× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context18% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage24 / 134 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 18% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 93.9% · SNR: 0.07 · Signal: 7151 / Noise: 109401 tokens

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🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
ServerCloudFront
CDNcloudfront
HTTP Status200
Load Time507 ms
Raw HTML Size455.3 KB
Visible Text Size27.9 KB

Performance & Speed

52/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

507 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

1868
DOM nodes
455 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=60
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudfront

🔬 Tracker Tax

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

73/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✗ Sitemap declared in robots.txt
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✗ GPTBot allowed
  • ✗ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

268
internal links
33
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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

Your site scores 35/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 90 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
35
Single-page score
+6
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
42
Avg across 90 pages · Range 0–60
Topical Cohesion
10%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
72203
Avg Bloat
113.0×
RAG Fractures [?]
2
⚠️
2 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 2 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/celebrate-black-atx-2026-marks-100-years-of-black-history-in-austin
Celebrate Black ATX 2026 Marks 100 Years of Black History in Austin
product 60 59.6× 1033
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/out-and-about-georgetown-best-dish-yet-tejas-meat-supply
Out & About: LIVE in Georgetown! Best Dish Yet- Tejas Meat Supply!
product 60 57.0× 1160
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/out-and-about-georgetown-hats-boots-and-local-flair-at-blushing-belle-boutique
Out & About: LIVE in Georgetown! Hats, Boots, & Local Flair at Blushing Belle Boutique!
product 60 42.9× 1646
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/out-about-live-in-georgetown-nature-meets-neighbors-at-wild-birds-unlimited
Out & About LIVE in Georgetown! Nature meets neighbors at Wild Birds Unlimited
product 60 74.7× 840
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/out-about-live-in-georgetown-downtown-georgetown-association-celebrates-heart-of-city
Out & About LIVE in Georgetown! Downtown Georgetown Association celebrates heart of city
product 60 68.4× 928
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/austin-city-limits-returns-for-season-52-with-a-star-packed-new-lineup
Austin City Limits returns for Season 52 with a star-packed new lineup
pricing 60 67.3× 945 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/out-about-live-in-georgetown-history-comes-to-life-at-the-williamson-museum
Out & About LIVE in Georgetown! History comes to life at the Williamson Museum
product 60 70.8× 896
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/good-party-atx-events-black-history-month-lunar-new-year-and-dog-friendly-trivia
Good Party ATX events! Black History Month, Lunar New Year and dog-friendly trivia
pricing 60 85.4× 727 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/free-first-sunday-at-the-bullock-celebrates-womens-history-month-this-march
Free First Sunday at the Bullock Celebrates Women’s History Month this March
product 60 64.7× 1070
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/limor-suss-shares-a-few-essentials-to-get-set-for-spring
Limor Suss shares a few essentials to get set for Spring
product 60 105.7× 571
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/amplify-austin-and-music-helps-take-over-c-boys-to-bring-bedside-concerts-to-patients
Amplify Austin and Music Helps take over C-Boy’s to bring bedside concerts to patients
product 60 70.3× 869
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/thank-you-walmart-for-supporting-our-cbs-austin-backpack-giveaway
Thank you, Walmart, for supporting our CBS Austin Backpack Giveaway!
pricing 60 78.0× 783 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/attorney-john-levy-shares-how-revocable-trusts-offer-privacy-and-control-of-final-wishes
Attorney John Levy shares how revocable trusts offer privacy and control of final wishes
pricing 60 94.7× 636 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/registered-dietitian-mia-syn-shares-easy-everyday-upgrades-for-healthier-choices
Registered Dietitian Mia Syn shares easy, everyday upgrades for healthier choices
product 60 82.8× 764
https://cbsaustin.com/features/we-are-austin/austin-les-dames-descoffier-awards-women-52k-in-scholarships-to-chase-culinary-dreams
Austin Les Dames d'Escoffier awards women $52K in scholarships to chase culinary dreams
pricing 60 59.1× 1048 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://cbsaustin.com/features/black-history-honors
Black History Honors
product 55 32.5× 2030
https://cbsaustin.com/news/auto-matters
Auto Matters
pricing 55 30.4× 2349 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/news
Austin News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News
pricing 55 25.7× 3511 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/news/voting
Voting
pricing 55 30.3× 2310 💰 Pricing
https://cbsaustin.com/features
Features
pricing 52 50.4× 1385 💰 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
/features/ 28 53 1% 83.3× Bot Blocked
/news/ 25 46 1% 68.7× Bot Blocked
/money/ 6 52 1% 71.2× Bot Blocked
/elections/ 4 20 1% 839.7× Bot Blocked
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/question-of-the-day/ 1 52 1% 62.9× Bot Blocked
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/newsletter/ 1 42 1% 218.1× Bot Blocked
/nextgen-tv/ 1 42 1% 117.0× Bot Blocked
/shopping/ 1 42 1% 133.0× Bot Blocked
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/fcc/ 1 42 1% 191.5× Bot Blocked
/research/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/home-of-the-brave/ 1 42 1% 213.5× Bot Blocked
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to cbsaustin.com. 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": "Cbsaustin",
  "url": "https://cbsaustin.com",
  "logo": "https://cbsaustin.com/resources/assets/keye/images/logos/favicon-32x32.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": "Cbsaustin",
  "url": "https://cbsaustin.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://cbsaustin.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow GPTBot in robots.txt
High Impact ⏱ 2 min
GPTBot is blocked — your content cannot appear in ChatGPT citations. Add this to your robots.txt:
text
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Medium Impact ⏱ 2 min
ClaudeBot is restricted — Claude may not be able to cite your content. Many AI assistants rely on it.
text
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 6% of your HTML is useful content. AI crawlers waste context window tokens on bloat.
html
<!-- Move inline CSS to external stylesheets -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css">

<!-- Move inline scripts to external files with defer -->
<script src="/js/app.js" defer></script>

<!-- Remove duplicate navigation blocks -->
<!-- Keep only ONE <nav> in the <header> -->

<!-- Ensure <main> wraps your primary content -->
<main>
  <!-- Your content here — this is what AI sees first -->
</main>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
15
Projected Score
46
Improvement
+31 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 pts
Allow ClaudeBot +5 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +5 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

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

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