lacity.gov 67 C
🛡️ SEO 50 🤖 GEO 72 ⚡ Perf 62 🏗️ Arch 86

lacity.gov — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

lacity.gov
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With a solid 66/100 ACRI, lacity.gov is well-positioned for AI search — better than 57% of sites in the Radar. Compared to other government sites (avg score: 57), lacity.gov performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Server-side rendering keeps the ghost ratio near zero, giving AI systems direct access to all visible content. The 6.7× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. All major AI bot user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended) are permitted by robots.txt, ensuring broad AI crawler access.

67
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (50) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 17, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 5 snapshots
Feb 23 Mar 17
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)50 × 0.25 = 12.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)72 × 0.40 = 28.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)62 × 0.20 = 12.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)86 × 0.15 = 12.9
Weighted sum = 12.5 + 28.8 + 12.4 + 12.9
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
31
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 2%
Rank #24564
+41 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 43%
Score 66/100

lacity.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 lacity.gov ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat6.7×

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

50/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

26 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

137 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://lacity.gov/
  • ✓ 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 — Home | City of Los Angeles
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✗ 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

72/100 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 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 →
lacity.gov
42
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.

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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 31/100 — Low
Structured Elements 14 elements (14 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words483
Raw Density2.9%
💡Low structure score (31/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 14 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

49
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability49/100 — AI models can partially 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

14%
🗑️ 86%
Useful Content (9.0 KB)Bloat (50.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio6.7× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage13 / 13 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: 85.0% · SNR: 0.18 · Signal: 2299 / Noise: 13016 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of lacity.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
The City of Los Angeles provides a comprehensive suite of services and resources to residents and businesses in the 27th
Target Audience
Residents of the 27th Street neighborhood, particularly those affected by the explosion, including families, business owners, and individuals seeking support and resources.
Pricing Model
Variable; Primarily reliant on city funding and grants, with some direct financial assistance provided to affected families.
🔗 Integration Partners
ATFLAPDMayor’s FundAEG Facilities
🛡️ Compliance Standards
ADAAmericans with Disabilities Act
🏆 Competitive Moat
The City of Los Angeles’s comprehensive response and long-term commitment to supporting the 27th Street community, coupled with dedicated Councilmember support, create a strong barrier to entry for alternative providers.
📊 Content Depth
8/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Disaster recovery challenges
• Limited access to resources
• Complex claim filing process
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1617 ms
Raw HTML Size59.8 KB
Visible Text Size9.0 KB

Performance & Speed

62/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1617 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

523
DOM nodes
60 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=31536000
  • ✗ 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

86/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✗ Sitemap declared in robots.txt
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

44
internal links
6
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 105 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
42
Single-page score
-4
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
38
Avg across 105 pages · Range 0–82
Topical Cohesion
10%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
29114
Avg Bloat
81.3×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://lacity.gov/government/departments-bureaus
Departments & Bureaus | City of Los Angeles
pricing 82 2.7× 5246 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/27thstreet-archive
27th Street Incident Archive | City of Los Angeles
pricing 77 6.3× 2315 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/27thstreet
27th Street Fireworks Explosion – One Year’s Progress | City of Los Angeles
other 77 5.4× 1606
https://lacity.gov/myla311/myla311-frequently-asked-questions
Frequently Asked Questions | City of Los Angeles
pricing 77 6.4× 1399 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/government/boards-commissions
Boards and Commissions | City of Los Angeles
pricing 67 10.9× 1461 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/regional-cyber-coalition
Regional Cyber Coalition | City of Los Angeles
other 67 12.6× 538
https://lacity.gov/government/history-los-angeles
The History of Los Angeles | City of Los Angeles
pricing 67 12.4× 642 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/residents/community-assistance/environmental-programs
Environmental Programs | City of Los Angeles
pricing 64 15.9× 647 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/directory
City Directory | City of Los Angeles
pricing 59 58.3× 1178 💰 Pricing
https://lacity.gov/tv/about
ABOUT LA CITYVIEW TV | City of Los Angeles
about 57 15.7× 396
https://lacity.gov/public-records-request
Public Records Request | City of Los Angeles
other 57 15.4× 422
https://lacity.gov/government/city-charter-rules-and-codes
City Charter, Rules, and Codes | City of Los Angeles
other 54 16.8× 411
https://lacity.gov/jobs
Jobs | City of Los Angeles
careers 49 26.2× 489
https://lacity.gov/residents/request-services-report-problems
Request City Services/ Report Problems | City of Los Angeles
product 49 45.7× 207
https://lacity.gov/LAstrong
LA STRONG – Support Wildfire Relief Efforts | City of Los Angeles
other 49 27.7× 405
https://lacity.gov/residents/community/family-services
Community & Family Services | City of Los Angeles
product 49 28.9× 292
https://lacity.gov/government/elected-officials/city-council-committees
City Council Committees | City of Los Angeles
other 49 34.3× 213
https://lacity.gov/residents/community-assistance/domestic-violence-resources
Domestic Violence Resources | City of Los Angeles
blog 49 37.1× 237
https://lacity.gov/myla311
MyLA311 | City of Los Angeles
other 49 20.9× 437
https://lacity.gov/government/elected-officials/mayor/james-hahn
James Hahn | City of Los Angeles
pricing 49 25.7× 279 💰 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
/government/ 32 40 0% 108.8× High JS Bloat
/residents/ 26 41 0% 63.7× High JS Bloat
/tv/ 6 36 0% 97.2× High JS Bloat
/AngelenoConnect/ 6 42 0% 41.8× High JS Bloat
/myla311/ 3 54 0% 44.3× High JS Bloat
/business/ 3 44 0% 48.5× High JS Bloat
/27thstreet/ 2 58 0% 20.1× High JS Bloat
/jobs/ 2 42 0% 54.9× High JS Bloat
/test-icon/ 1 26 0% 418.5× High JS Bloat
/cao/ 1 39 0% 44.6× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/home/ 1 49 0% 30.9× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 105 pages
instagram.com ×96
facebook.com ×96
youtube.com ×96
x.com ×95
forms.gle ×95
disclaimer.lacity.gov ×95
clerk.lacity.org ×13
ladwp.com ×12
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to lacity.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": "Lacity",
  "url": "https://lacity.gov",
  "logo": "https://lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph2451/themes/site/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": "Lacity",
  "url": "https://lacity.gov",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://lacity.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 Lacity?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Lacity does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Lacity work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Lacity."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
66
Projected Score
82
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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