iowa.gov 68 C
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 79 ⚡ Perf 56 🏗️ Arch 88

iowa.gov — Global SEODiff Score 68/100

iowa.gov
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iowa.gov shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 75/100, outperforming 81% of indexed domains. In the government sector, iowa.gov outperforms the average (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. The 9.6× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. Zero schema blocks puts this site at a disadvantage in knowledge graph and AI-answer pipelines that rely on explicit structured data. 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 (46) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 21, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 5 snapshots
Mar 4 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
No recent changes detected by adaptive crawler.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)79 × 0.40 = 31.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)56 × 0.20 = 11.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)88 × 0.15 = 13.2
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 31.6 + 11.2 + 13.2
Global SEODiff Score = 68 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
66
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.9%
Rank #8792
+19 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 19%
Score 75/100

iowa.gov 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 iowa.gov ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat9.6×

Fastest improvements

  • 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.

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
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Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

18 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

124 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 13
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Welcome
  • ✓ og:description — Welcome to Iowa.gov, the hub for information on government, education, business regulations, health, transparency, and more.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ 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

79/100 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 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 →
iowa.gov
54
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.

Analyzing hallucination risk…

🤖 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 66/100 — Good
Structured Elements 77 elements (77 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words593
Raw Density13.0%

🏷️ 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

55
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability55/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (40/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (20.8 KB)Bloat (179.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.6× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context31% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage5 / 16 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 31% 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: 89.6% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 5317 / Noise: 45827 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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🌐
This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
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AI Answer Preview

NEW

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

Simulating AI extraction…
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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of iowa.gov 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
This website provides information about disaster events in Iowa, including flooding, tornadoes, and severe storms.
Target Audience
Emergency management officials, residents of Iowa, news media, and researchers.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Provides detailed information about specific Iowa disaster events and their impact.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1304 ms
Raw HTML Size199.8 KB
Visible Text Size20.8 KB

Performance & Speed

56/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1304 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

707
DOM nodes
200 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=3600, public
  • ✗ 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.

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Architecture & Trust

88/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

79
internal links
9
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 154 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
54
Single-page score
-12
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
42
Avg across 154 pages · Range 0–69
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 54, but internal pages average only 42 — a -12-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
7%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
38393
Avg Bloat
246.6×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-report-unemployment-fraud
Report Unemployment Insurance Fraud | Iowa.gov
pricing 69 17.7× 1857 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-find-job
Find a Job | Iowa.gov
pricing 64 32.8× 942 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/policies
Policies | Iowa.gov
other 64 10.7× 2951
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-information-report-adult-abuse
Report Adult Abuse | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 37.0× 823 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-register-boat-iowa
Register a Boat in Iowa | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 48.5× 607 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-get-childrens-health-insurance
Get Children’s Health Insurance | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 58.9× 526 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-pay-traffic-ticket-online
Pay a Traffic Ticket Online | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 58.0× 516 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-pay-property-taxes
Pay Property Taxes | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 50.4× 544 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-file-your-weekly-unemployment-claim
File Your Weekly Unemployment Claim | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 46.6× 643 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-file-unemployment
File for Unemployment | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 49.2× 697 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-enroll-hunter-education-course
Enroll in a Hunter Education Course | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 44.0× 644 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-visit-inmate
Visit an Inmate | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 43.8× 683 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-get-marriage-birth-and-death-records
Get Marriage, Birth, and Death Records | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 36.5× 896 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/community-resources
Community Resources in a Disaster | Iowa.gov
blog 61 53.3× 504
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-reserve-campsite
Reserve a Campsite | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 45.3× 637 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/how-do-i-request-criminal-history-background-check
Request a Criminal History Background Check | Iowa.gov
pricing 61 37.5× 800 💰 Pricing
https://www.iowa.gov/adoption
Adoption | Iowa.gov
other 57 62.4× 213
https://iowa.gov/about
About Disaster Events | Iowa.gov
about 51 86.6× 292
https://www.iowa.gov/faq
FAQ | Iowa.gov
support 51 99.3× 283
https://iowa.gov/faq
FAQ | Iowa.gov
support 51 99.3× 283
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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
/how-to-guides/ 11 38 1% 425.7× Bot Blocked
/contacts/ 5 37 1% 579.9× Bot Blocked
/locations/ 5 39 1% 395.8× Bot Blocked
/federal-assistance-0/ 5 45 1% 275.4× Bot Blocked
/state-iowa-disaster-assistance/ 3 32 1% 229.9× Bot Blocked
/node/ 3 35 1% 441.9× Bot Blocked
/faq/ 2 51 1% 99.3× Bot Blocked
/about-alignment/ 2 46 1% 204.4× Bot Blocked
/how-do-i-locate-county-auditors-office/ 1 41 1% 331.3× Bot Blocked
/how-do-i-find-job/ 1 64 0% 32.8× High JS Bloat
/everfi/ 1 33 1% 199.0× Bot Blocked
/how-do-i-hunting-seasons/ 1 51 1% 123.5× Bot Blocked
/contact-us/ 1 22 1% 1005.0× Bot Blocked
/governors-annual-condition-state-address/ 1 33 1% 194.5× Bot Blocked
/dps-alignment/ 1 51 1% 111.0× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 154 pages
directory.iowa.gov ×147
engage.iowa.gov ×146
dom.iowa.gov ×142
linkedin.com ×142
data.iowa.gov ×142
hhs.iowa.gov ×21
iowadot.gov ×16
iowadnr.gov ×12
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite iowa.gov 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

F 15 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.

51
Homepage ACRI
32
Inner Avg ACRI
+19
ACRI Delta
60%
Homepage Ghost
61%
Inner Avg Ghost
100
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
30 70% other https://www.iowa.gov/federal-assistance-0
22 70% support https://iowa.gov/contact
31 60% blog https://www.iowa.gov/personal-records-guides
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

C 50/100

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
Named leadership: Camp Dodge Lodging
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Citation Profile

15 DOMAINS

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

87
Total Links
15
Unique Domains
5.8
Avg/Page
17%
Diversity
directory.iowa.gov engage.iowa.gov data.iowa.gov dom.iowa.gov linkedin.com iowanationalguard.com adaircounty.iowa.gov helpid.iowa.gov iowalegalaid.org iowacourts.gov
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 9.1

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for iowa.gov:

Current Score
75
Projected Score
91
Improvement
+16 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +3 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

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

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