edmontonjournal.com 63 C
🛡️ SEO 67 🤖 GEO 54 ⚡ Perf 47 🏗️ Arch 99

edmontonjournal.com — Global SEODiff Score 63/100

edmontonjournal.com
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edmontonjournal.com achieves a 81/100 on the AI-Crawler Reality Index, reflecting above-average readiness for AI-driven discovery. In the infrastructure sector, edmontonjournal.com outperforms the average (57), suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The low ghost ratio (0%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. A 26.0× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. With 4 JSON-LD schema blocks, the site provides explicit machine-readable metadata that enhances AI comprehension. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

63
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (47) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (26×) → +5–10 pts
⚠️ Crawl Blocked: Fetch failed (network timeout / connection error)
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 15, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 22 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 15
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)67 × 0.25 = 16.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)54 × 0.40 = 21.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)47 × 0.20 = 9.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)99 × 0.15 = 14.8
Weighted sum = 16.8 + 21.6 + 9.4 + 14.8
Global SEODiff Score = 63 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
53
Structure
avg 35
48
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 3%
Rank #26143
Aligned
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 5%
Score 81/100

edmontonjournal.com has balanced Google and AI visibility — both rank roughly in the same tier. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why edmontonjournal.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage4 blocks
Token bloat26.0×

Fastest improvements

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…

⚠️ Crawl Failed: Anti-Bot Protection Detected

Fetch failed (network timeout / connection error)

The scores below may not reflect actual site quality. The crawler received a challenge page instead of real content.

🛡️

Traditional SEO

67/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

23 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

144 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 15
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://edmontonjournal.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 — Edmonton Journal
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✓ 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

54/100 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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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.
📊 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)
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 53/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 249 elements (249 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words2907
Raw Density8.6%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks4 blocks

Schema Coverage Map

2/7 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.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

57
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability57/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (80/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

3%
🗑️ 97%
Useful Content (19.8 KB)Bloat (496.4 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio26.0× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context93% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage71 / 76 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 516.3 KB, but only 19.8 KB is text. 3% useful / 97% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (26.0×) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 96.2% · SNR: 0.04 · Signal: 5079 / Noise: 127091 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
🤖

AI Answer Preview

NEW

See how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.

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🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of edmontonjournal.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
The Edmonton Journal provides a digital replica of its printed newspaper (ePaper) and unlimited access to its website (Online Access)
Target Audience
Readers of the Edmonton Journal, including current subscribers (both print and online), and potential new subscribers seeking convenient access to local news and information.
Pricing Model
Subscription-based: Monthly or annual options for both ePaper and Online Access, billed via major credit card. Promotional offers may include gift cards, but these are non-refundable.
🔗 Integration Partners
PressReaderNewspaperDirect
🏆 Competitive Moat
Combination of a well-established local news brand and a robust digital delivery platform (PressReader) providing a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for accessing news content across multiple devices.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
FAQ schemaSign-in pagesSubscription pagesAccount management pages
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Complex account management process
• Difficulties with sign-in and login issues
• Limited commenting features and moderation
• Tax credit limitations
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Serveristio-envoy
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time532 ms
Raw HTML Size516.3 KB
Visible Text Size19.8 KB

Performance & Speed

47/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

532 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

2923
DOM nodes
516 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=180
  • ✗ 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

99/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

352
internal links
43
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 108 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
36
Single-page score
+24
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
60
Avg across 108 pages · Range 0–80
Topical Cohesion
9%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
144494
Avg Bloat
44.5×
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://edmontonjournal.com/faq
FAQ | Edmonton Journal
pricing 80 11.3× 3853 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/edmonton-oilers-darnell-nurse-stan-bowman-tristan-jarry-paul-coffey
'Fire Bowman asap': Hockey world reacts to outrageous play of Edmonton Oilers | Edmonton Journal
other 72 18.4× 4365
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/edmonton-oilers-power-rankings-mcdavid-draisaitl
Edmonton Oilers Power Rankings: Olympic break means not much movement | Edmonton Journal
other 67 31.6× 2195
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-budget-2026-deficit-ucp-spending
Alberta Budget 2026: Province delivers $9.4-billion deficit | Edmonton Journal
pricing 67 34.0× 2030 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-budget-2026-health-care-budget-balloons-to-record-34-4-billion
Alberta Budget 2026: Health care budget balloons to $34.4 billion | Edmonton Journal
pricing 67 35.1× 1978 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/letters/thursdays-letters-send-new-provincial-police-to-fight-rural-crime
Thursday's letters: Send new provincial police to fight rural crime | Edmonton Journal
pricing 67 33.1× 2013 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/letters/wednesdays-letters-ucp-blames-others-instead-of-governing
Wednesday's letters: UCP blames others instead of governing | Edmonton Journal
pricing 67 31.5× 2104 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/team-canada-fail-bouchard-schaefer-hyman
Why did Team Canada lose gold medal game? 'Big mistake': Toronto hockey commentators say | Edmonton Journal
about 67 32.2× 2090
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/what-the-edmonton-oilers-most-urgently-need-at-the-nhl-trade-deadline-9-things-stan-bowman
Which NHL Trade Deadline deal could save the Edmonton Oilers | Edmonton Journal
other 64 37.8× 1720
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/made-for-the-cold-world-cup-ice-climbing-returns-to-edmonton
Made for the cold: World Cup ice climbing returns to Edmonton | Edmonton Journal
other 64 60.2× 1153
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/iran-solidarity-rally
Edmonton Iranian community planning rally in support of regime change | Edmonton Journal
pricing 64 55.9× 1098 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/castle-for-sale
Oilers-saving philanthropist's history-rich villa lists for $7 million | Edmonton Journal
other 64 38.3× 2131
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/edmonton-oilers-sink-to-new-low-in-san-jose-can-this-mess-be-fixed
Edmonton Oilers sink to new low in San Jose, can this mess be fixed? | Edmonton Journal
other 64 41.8× 1502
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/player-grades-edmonton-oilers-with-usual-horrid-defence-lose-to-san-jose-sharks-5-4
Player grades: Edmonton Oilers with usual horrid defence, lose to San Jose Sharks 5-4 | Edmonton Journal
other 64 38.0× 1779
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/death-of-elderly-man-in-ponoka-county-confirmed-homicide
Elderly man dies in suspected homicide in Ponoka County | Edmonton Journal
other 64 84.1× 689
https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/review-live-big-wreck-econoline-crush-rogers-place
REVIEW: Live, Big Wreck and Econoline Crush warm up a chill arena | Edmonton Journal
pricing 64 39.0× 1731 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-road-construction-2026-major-projects-set-to-reshape-streets-across-the-city
Edmonton road construction 2026: Major projects set to reshape streets across the city | Edmonton Journal
pricing 64 44.9× 1442 💰 Pricing
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/lorne-gunter-poilievres-newfound-tough-stance-on-trump-likely-too-little-too-late
Lorne Gunter: Poilievre's newfound spine likely too little, too late | Edmonton Journal
other 64 46.6× 1365
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/letters/saturdays-letters-alberta-must-spend-on-basics-not-pet-projects
Saturday's letters: Alberta must spend on basics, not pet projects | Edmonton Journal
other 64 49.6× 1237
https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/new-wave-of-talent-might-just-push-oilers-to-stanley-cup-success-this-spring
New wave of talent might just push Oilers to Stanley Cup success this spring | Edmonton Journal
social-proof 64 51.7× 1180
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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/ 42 64 0% 51.4× High JS Bloat
/sports/ 30 64 0% 43.5× High JS Bloat
/opinion/ 17 64 0% 48.6× High JS Bloat
/life/ 5 64 0% 45.9× High JS Bloat
/entertainment/ 3 64 0% 46.6× High JS Bloat
/business/ 2 64 0% 48.8× High JS Bloat
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 80 0% 11.3× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 46 0% 34.4× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 108 pages
classifieds.edmontonjournal.com ×100
instagram.com ×100
business.financialpost.com ×100
epaper.edmontonjournal.com ×100
canoe.com ×100
shopping.edmontonjournal.com ×100
postmedia.com ×100
tailstold.com ×100
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 3% 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>
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 Edmontonjournal?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Edmontonjournal does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Edmontonjournal work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Edmontonjournal."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
81
Projected Score
89
Improvement
+8 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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