irs.gov 72 B
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 86 ⚡ Perf 65 🏗️ Arch 89

irs.gov — Global SEODiff Score 72/100

irs.gov
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irs.gov shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 77/100, outperforming 86% of indexed domains. Compared to other government sites (avg score: 57), irs.gov performs above the benchmark, 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. A tight 3.1× token bloat ratio reflects disciplined markup: minimal noise between the crawler and the content it needs. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

72
B — 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 20, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 3 snapshots
Mar 7 Mar 20
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)86 × 0.40 = 34.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)65 × 0.20 = 13.0
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)89 × 0.15 = 13.3
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 34.4 + 13.0 + 13.3
Global SEODiff Score = 72 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
87
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.1%
Rank #1284
+14 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 14%
Score 77/100

irs.gov shows stronger AI visibility than traditional SEO ranking. Great AI foundation to build on. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why irs.gov ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat3.1×

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.

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

78 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

151 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 22
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✗ og:title
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✓ 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

86/100 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 →
irs.gov
71
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 →
🚨

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 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 87/100 — Excellent
Structured Elements 252 elements (252 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1107
Raw Density22.8%

🏷️ 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

71
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability71/100 — AI models can easily extract answers from this page
Crawl CostLow (30/100) — efficient for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

32%
🗑️ 68%
Useful Content (32.6 KB)Bloat (67.5 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.1× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context75% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage15 / 20 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

48 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 67.4% · SNR: 0.48 · Signal: 8347 / Noise: 17275 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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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.

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of irs.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
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Target Audience
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Federal law enforcement with jurisdiction over Internal Revenue Code violations, high conviction rate
📊 Content Depth
2/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No core offering described
• No target audience specified
• No pricing model mentioned
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-27

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time521 ms
Raw HTML Size100.1 KB
Visible Text Size32.6 KB

Performance & Speed

65/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

521 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

963
DOM nodes
100 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=86400
  • ✗ 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

89/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

206
internal links
12
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 71/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 1010 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
71
Single-page score
-7
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 1010 pages · Range 0–85
Topical Cohesion
9%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
697751
Avg Bloat
37.9×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.irs.gov/vi/help/report-fraud/report-fake-irs-treasury-or-tax-related-emails-and-messages
Báo cáo mồi chài và lừa đảo trực tuyến | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 85 9.1× 3490 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/last-defendant-sentenced-in-gangster-disciples-case
Last defendant sentenced in Gangster Disciples case | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 85 9.4× 2327 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/irs-criminal-investigation-voluntary-disclosure-practice
IRS Criminal Investigation Voluntary Disclosure Practice | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 85 9.5× 2686 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/georgia-man-pleads-guilty-in-new-york-federal-court-on-charges-related-to-ponzi-and-covid-19-fraud-schemes
Georgia man pleads guilty in New York federal court on charges related to Ponzi and COVID-19 fraud schemes | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 85 9.8× 2243 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/irs-secure-messaging-terms-of-service-and-rules-of-conduct
IRS Secure Messaging terms of service and rules of conduct | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 19.2× 1037 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/let-us-help-you
Let us help you | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 18.2× 1445 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/ht/help/report-fraud/report-fake-irs-treasury-or-tax-related-emails-and-messages
Rapòte amsonaj ak eskokri anliy | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 10.0× 2976 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/ru/help/report-fraud/report-fake-irs-treasury-or-tax-related-emails-and-messages
Докладывайте о «фишинге» и мошенничестве в интернете | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 13.9× 2700 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/vi/help/tools
Công cụ | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 17.1× 1365 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/es/help/let-us-help-you
Permítanos ayudarle | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 14.7× 1982 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/accessibility-guide-for-irsgov
Accessibility guide for IRS.gov | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 11.1× 2047 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/irs-levy-programs-toolkit
IRS levy programs toolkit | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 18.3× 1137 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/irs-face-to-face-saturday-help
IRS face-to-face Saturday help | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 11.1× 2190 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/es/help/report-fraud/report-fake-irs-treasury-or-tax-related-emails-and-messages
Informe de mensajes y correos electrónicos falsos del IRS, el Tesoro o relacionados con impuestos | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 13.2× 2102 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/ru/help/let-us-help-you
Мы готовы вам помочь | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 18.2× 1867 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/ht/help/tax-scams/recognize-tax-scams-and-fraud
Rekonèt èskrokri enpo ak fwod yo | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 17.3× 1525 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/vi/help/tax-scams/recognize-tax-scams-and-fraud
Nhận biết lừa đảo và gian lận thuế | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 12.9× 2166 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/report-fraud/report-tax-fraud-a-scam-or-law-violation
Report tax fraud, a scam or law violation | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 16.5× 2544 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/submit-a-whistleblower-claim-for-award
Submit a whistleblower claim for award | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 13.1× 1697 💰 Pricing
https://www.irs.gov/help/report-fraud/report-fake-irs-treasury-or-tax-related-emails-and-messages
Report fake IRS, Treasury or tax-related emails and messages | Internal Revenue Service
pricing 75 16.4× 1586 💰 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
/compliance/ 443 70 0% 25.3× High JS Bloat
/es/ 15 72 0% 25.2× High JS Bloat
/help/ 14 74 0% 16.5× High JS Bloat
/vi/ 8 74 0% 18.9× High JS Bloat
/ru/ 7 71 0% 27.2× High JS Bloat
/ko/ 5 71 0% 24.4× High JS Bloat
/ht/ 4 74 0% 16.4× High JS Bloat
/zh-hans/ 2 70 0% 51.6× High JS Bloat
/zh-hant/ 1 70 0% 42.9× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 75 0% 18.3× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 1010 pages
twitter.com ×1001
treasury.gov ×1001
youtube.com ×1001
vote.gov ×1001
sa.www4.irs.gov ×1001
instagram.com ×1001
usa.gov ×1001
usaspending.gov ×1001
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Bait & Switch Delta

D 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.

75
Homepage ACRI
47
Inner Avg ACRI
+28
ACRI Delta
0%
Homepage Ghost
20%
Inner Avg Ghost
46
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
47 20% pricing https://www.irs.gov/ko/help/tax-scams
47 20% pricing https://www.irs.gov/zh-hant/help/contact-my-local-office-internationally
47 20% pricing https://www.irs.gov/zh-hant/help/tools
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 30/100

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

32 DOMAINS

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

220
Total Links
32
Unique Domains
14.7
Avg/Page
14%
Diversity
jobs.irs.gov instagram.com usa.gov vote.gov sa.www4.irs.gov youtube.com treasury.gov facebook.com twitter.com home.treasury.gov
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 40.0

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
77
Projected Score
90
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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