cgtn.com 59 D
🛡️ SEO 45 🤖 GEO 70 ⚡ Perf 39 🏗️ Arch 80

cgtn.com — Global SEODiff Score 59/100

cgtn.com
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The AI-Readiness score for cgtn.com is 61/100 — a middling result that leaves significant room to climb the Radar rankings. Within the news vertical, this places cgtn.com above the industry average of 57 —, 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. With a 3.3× bloat ratio, the page delivers its content without excessive boilerplate, giving AI systems a clean extraction path. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

59
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Performance (39) has the most room for improvement.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)45 × 0.25 = 11.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)70 × 0.40 = 28.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)39 × 0.20 = 7.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)80 × 0.15 = 12.0
Weighted sum = 11.2 + 28.0 + 7.8 + 12.0
Global SEODiff Score = 59 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
6
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #4499
+51 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 51%
Score 61/100

cgtn.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 cgtn.com ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industrynews
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat3.3×

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 →
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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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🛡️

Traditional SEO

45/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

54 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

242 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 14
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.cgtn.com
  • ✓ 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 — CGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and Video
  • ✓ og:description — Get the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and sports to nature, travel and technology. CGTN delivers a Chinese perspective on global news through innovative use of the latest media tools.
  • ✓ 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

70/100 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 news sector, medi.de (ACRI: 82) 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 →
cgtn.com
38
Your ACRI Score
82
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. medi.de has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses TYPO3. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
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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 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 6/100 — Poor
Structured Elements 2 elements (2 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1678
Raw Density0.1%
💡Low structure score (6/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 2 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

47
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability47/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

30%
🗑️ 70%
Useful Content (118.0 KB)Bloat (273.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.3× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context81% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage88 / 108 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

43 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 69.9% · SNR: 0.43 · Signal: 30201 / Noise: 70101 tokens

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🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1283 ms
Raw HTML Size391.8 KB
Visible Text Size118.0 KB

Performance & Speed

39/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1283 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2880
DOM nodes
392 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✗ Cache-Control header
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 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.

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Architecture & Trust

80/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.cgtn.com/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

443
internal links
29
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 304 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
38
Single-page score
+13
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
51
Avg across 304 pages · Range 0–59
Topical Cohesion
3%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
509048
Avg Bloat
43.3×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.cgtn.com/special/afghan-tension-in-process.html
Afghan tension in process
other 59 29.1× 4910
https://www.cgtn.com/special/beijing2022/live-show.html
Live Shows
other 59 26.3× 3565
https://www.cgtn.com/special/beijing2022/winter-sports-in-china.html
Winter Sports in China
pricing 59 27.6× 4757 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/special/conflict-in-ukraine.html
Conflict in Ukraine
pricing 59 28.7× 4344 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
UKRAINE CRISIS
pricing 59 27.3× 4921 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/specials/Taiwan-the-treasure-island-of-China.html
Taiwan: the treasure island of China
other 59 28.5× 5409
https://www.cgtn.com/specials/2020/beijing2022.html
Winter Games 2022
other 59 26.9× 4708
https://www.cgtn.com/special/tokyo-2020/team-china.html
Team China
about 59 26.4× 4821
https://www.cgtn.com/special/Fukushima-wastewater.html
Fukushima wastewater
pricing 59 30.8× 4125 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/special/BizBeat.html
BizBeat
other 56 31.8× 4423
https://www.cgtn.com/special/7949544f304a336277566d55.html
90th Anniversary of founding the People's Liberation Army
pricing 56 33.5× 1597 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/special/794d444f304a336277566d55.html
NPC & CPPCC
pricing 56 32.8× 4111 💰 Pricing
https://www.cgtn.com/special/794d544f304a336277566d55.html
Inner Mongolia turns 70
other 56 42.0× 632
https://www.cgtn.com/special/79517a4e304a336277566d55.html
Xinjiang: China's New Frontier
other 56 41.4× 876
https://www.cgtn.com/special/covid-19-origins-tracing.html
COVID-19 origins-tracing
other 56 36.8× 2489
https://www.cgtn.com/special/7963544f304a336277566d55.html
APEC 2017
other 56 34.9× 1439
https://www.cgtn.com/special/7967544f304a336277566d55.html
World Internet Conference
other 56 38.6× 1900
https://www.cgtn.com/special/796b7a4e304a336277566d55.html
What Is China?
other 56 35.3× 953
https://www.cgtn.com/special/8th-wuzhen-theatre-festival-.html
8th Wuzhen Theatre Festival
other 56 39.2× 962
https://www.cgtn.com/special/Along-the-Chinese-Expressways.html
Along China’s Expressways
other 56 40.2× 721
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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
/special/ 241 55 0% 47.9× High JS Bloat
/specials/ 39 56 0% 38.0× High JS Bloat
/special-list/ 3 56 0% 49.7× High JS Bloat
/resources/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/help/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/trust/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/demo/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 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
/careers/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/solutions/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to cgtn.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": "Cgtn",
  "url": "https://cgtn.com",
  "logo": "https://www.cgtn.com/favicon.ico",
  "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": "Cgtn",
  "url": "https://cgtn.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://cgtn.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 Cgtn?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Cgtn does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Cgtn work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Cgtn."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
61
Projected Score
74
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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