expressvpn.com 71 B
🛡️ SEO 67 🤖 GEO 78 ⚡ Perf 47 🏗️ Arch 93

expressvpn.com — Global SEODiff Score 71/100

expressvpn.com
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With a solid 73/100 ACRI, expressvpn.com is well-positioned for AI search — better than 75% of sites in the Radar. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places expressvpn.com above the industry average of 57 —, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Content is delivered server-side, meaning bots and AI agents can parse the full page without executing JavaScript. The 9.9× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. The presence of 4 structured data blocks ensures search engines and AI agents can accurately classify and extract entities from the page. All major AI bot user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended) are permitted by robots.txt, ensuring broad AI crawler access.

71
B — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (47) is your bottleneck.
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📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 20
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
📉 Mar 19 ACRI -1 (65→64)
🔄 Mar 12 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 10 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 4 Content change detected
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🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)67 × 0.25 = 16.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)78 × 0.40 = 31.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)47 × 0.20 = 9.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)93 × 0.15 = 13.9
Weighted sum = 16.8 + 31.2 + 9.4 + 13.9
Global SEODiff Score = 71 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
49
Structure
avg 35
8
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.5%
Rank #4829
+25 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 25%
Score 73/100

expressvpn.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 expressvpn.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage4 blocks
Token bloat9.9×

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…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

67/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

56 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

160 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 10
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — ExpressVPN: Best VPN Service for Speed & Privacy in 2026
  • ✓ og:description — Protect your privacy, stream worldwide, and enjoy fast speeds with ExpressVPN. Servers in 105 countries, 24/7 support, and a 30-day risk-free trial—start now!
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✗ twitter:card
📐 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

78/100 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.

🔗

Citation Alternatives

Research
💡
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 →
expressvpn.com
64
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

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 49/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 266 elements (266 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3666
Raw Density7.3%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks4 blocks

Schema Coverage Map

2/7 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.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

52
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability52/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (70/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (68.0 KB)Bloat (605.2 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.9× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage94 / 94 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: 89.9% · SNR: 0.11 · Signal: 17417 / Noise: 154939 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

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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 expressvpn.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
Secure and fast global network for privacy and security
Target Audience
Individuals, small businesses, tech-savvy users
Pricing Model
Paid subscription, 30-day money-back guarantee
🏆 Competitive Moat
Premium network with no data caps or throttling, strict no-logs policy
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
FAQ schema, template comparison pages
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No structured schema for FAQ, thin landing pages for setup and troubleshooting
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Serveropenresty/1.27.1.1
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time973 ms
Raw HTML Size673.3 KB
Visible Text Size68.0 KB

Performance & Speed

47/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

973 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1516
DOM nodes
673 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=3600, stale-while-revalidate, stale-if-error
  • ✗ 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

93/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

227
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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 229 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
64
Single-page score
-2
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
62
Avg across 229 pages · Range 0–90
Topical Cohesion
13%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
514660
Avg Bloat
29.5×
RAG Fractures [?]
210
⚠️
210 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 210 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/50-free-streaming-services-around-the-world/
25 Best Free Streaming Sites to Watch Movies & TV Shows Online in 2026
pricing 90 6.8× 14045 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/100-plus-movies-to-stream-this-halloween/
100+ movies to stream this Halloween | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 85 9.6× 7160 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/20-best-expat-destinations-for-each-life-stage/
Best Places for Expats to Live in 2026 | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 85 5.2× 15530 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/35-free-ai-tools/
35 Best Free AI Tools in 2026 | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 85 9.6× 7277 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/are-free-vpns-safe/
Are Free VPNs Safe? Free vs Paid VPNs Comparison
pricing 80 13.6× 4683 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/13-more-surveillance-themed-movies-and-shows/
13 More Surveillance Movies and Shows | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 77 16.5× 4134 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/athletes-who-are-gamers/
Athletes Who Dominate in Sports and Gaming | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 75 13.1× 5063 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/2fa-vs-mfa/
2FA vs MFA: Key Differences & How to Choose the Right One
pricing 75 13.0× 4918 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/10-scams-you-should-know-about-in-2024/
2026 Scam Survival Guide | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 75 13.3× 4853 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/address-resolution-protocol/
What is ARP? Detect spoofing and secure Wi-fi using VPNs
pricing 75 12.6× 4801 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/anti-dating-apps/
The 15 Best Anti-Dating Apps 2026 | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 75 11.5× 5870 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/2-years-post-musk-is-x-nearing-super-app-status/
Is X (Twitter) A Super App? | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 75 13.8× 4618 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/app-for-android-latest-updates/
ExpressVPN Android app: Latest updates and software upgrades
pricing 75 12.9× 5478 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/app-for-ios-latest-updates/
ExpressVPN iOS app: Latest updates and software upgrades
pricing 75 13.2× 5219 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/502-bad-gateway/
502 Bad Gateway Meaning & 10 Easy Fixes | ExpressVPN
pricing 75 13.4× 4557 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/adversary-in-the-middle-atack/
What is adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) and how does it work?
pricing 72 15.3× 3915 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/ai-phishing/
What is AI phishing and how can you avoid it?
pricing 72 17.0× 3393 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/advanced-persistent-threat/
Advanced persistent threats (APT): What you need to know
pricing 72 18.1× 3326 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/ai-look-alikes/
The Rise of AI Doppelgängers | ExpressVPN Blog
pricing 72 16.7× 3584 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/adware/
What is adware? Complete guide to protection and removal
pricing 72 16.2× 3722 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
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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
/blog/ 214 66 0% 29.3× High JS Bloat
/help/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/api/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/careers/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 64 0% 101.6× High JS Bloat
/solutions/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/terms/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 64 0% 34.6× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 1 64 0% 134.7× High JS Bloat
/privacy/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 44 0% 212.0× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 229 pages
linkedin.com ×211
youtube.com ×211
twitter.com ×210
facebook.com ×210
instagram.com ×210
go.expressvpn.com ×209
intego.com ×181
holiday.com ×181
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite expressvpn.com 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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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

A 5 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.

44
Homepage ACRI
64
Inner Avg ACRI
-20
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
40%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
64 40% pricing https://expressvpn.com/products
64 40% pricing https://expressvpn.com/features
64 40% pricing https://expressvpn.com/blog
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

F 0/100

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

11 DOMAINS

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

37
Total Links
11
Unique Domains
7.4
Avg/Page
30%
Diversity
linkedin.com youtube.com twitter.com facebook.com instagram.com holiday.com intego.com go.expressvpn.com teams.expressvpn.com support.apple.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 49.4

AI trust scores for the domains expressvpn.com links to. Citing high-trust sources lifts your own credibility signal.

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to expressvpn.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": "Expressvpn",
  "url": "https://expressvpn.com",
  "logo": "https://expressvpn.com/wp-ws/themes/expressvpn/assets/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png?v=137054",
  "sameAs": []
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
73
Projected Score
82
Improvement
+9 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Reduce token bloat +3 pts

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

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