lsu.edu 71 B
🛡️ SEO 50 🤖 GEO 84 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 70

lsu.edu — Global SEODiff Score 71/100

lsu.edu
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lsu.edu achieves a 75/100 on the AI-Crawler Reality Index, reflecting above-average readiness for AI-driven discovery. Within the education vertical, this places lsu.edu 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. A tight 2.9× token bloat ratio reflects disciplined markup: minimal noise between the crawler and the content it needs. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. 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 Traditional SEO (50) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 21, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 29 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 21
🔔 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)84 × 0.40 = 33.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)70 × 0.15 = 10.5
Weighted sum = 12.5 + 33.6 + 14.8 + 10.5
Global SEODiff Score = 71 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
75
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.6%
Rank #5970
+19 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 19%
Score 75/100

lsu.edu 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 lsu.edu ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat2.9×

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 →
  • 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

60 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

159 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 8
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.lsu.edu/index.php
  • ✓ 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
  • ✗ 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

84/100 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 education sector, educationdirectory.com.au (ACRI: 86) 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 →
lsu.edu
67
Your ACRI Score
86
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. educationdirectory.com.au has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses Custom / Proprietary. 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 75/100 — Good
Structured Elements 157 elements (157 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words919
Raw Density17.1%

🏷️ 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

67
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability67/100 — 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

34%
🗑️ 66%
Useful Content (24.9 KB)Bloat (48.1 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio2.9× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage11 / 11 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

52 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 65.9% · SNR: 0.52 · Signal: 6368 / Noise: 12320 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of lsu.edu 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 guide provides information on disability rights, responsibilities, and procedures for students, faculty, and staff at LSU, ensuring accessible learning environments and accommodations.
Target Audience
Students with disabilities, faculty, and staff at LSU
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Comprehensive guidance on disability accommodations and grievance procedures within a university setting.
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Syllabus statementAccessibility guidelines
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Lack of clarity on student rights and responsibilities
• Potential for faculty misunderstanding of accommodation procedures
• Need for clear communication regarding accessibility requirements
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
ServerApache/2.4.6 (CentOS) OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips PHP/5.4.16
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time615 ms
Raw HTML Size73.0 KB
Visible Text Size24.9 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

615 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

759
DOM nodes
73 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✗ Cache-Control header
  • ✗ 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

70/100 15 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

133
internal links
23
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 67/100. 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
67
Single-page score
-22
Severe hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
45
Avg across 1010 pages · Range 0–82
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 67, but internal pages average only 45 — a -22-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
14%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
533064
Avg Bloat
51.6×
RAG Fractures [?]
8
⚠️
8 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 8 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.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/services/tiger-card/policies.php
Tiger Card Funds | LSU Auxiliary Services
pricing 82 4.2× 2730 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/career/blog/2025/07/wlae_tv_rtr_blog.php
WLAE-TV Welcomes Talented LSU Senior for Summer Internship
pricing 77 8.2× 1647 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/career/blog/index.php
Career Chats | LSU Career Center
pricing 77 9.1× 1792 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/research/guide/index.php
Guide
pricing 77 9.9× 2536 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/blog/index-227019.php
LSU Stories
pricing 77 7.5× 3455 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/engagement/about/faqs.php
Frequently Asked Question
pricing 77 5.8× 1047 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/manship/about/who-we-are/history/index.php
History | LSU Manship School of Mass Communication
pricing 77 5.3× 2120 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/disability/about/guide.php
Rights & Responsibilities | LSU Disability Services
pricing 77 7.5× 2140 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/science/geology/about/department-history.php
Department History | Department of Geology and Geophysics
pricing 77 5.4× 3437 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/shc/about/policies.php
Policies | LSU Student Health Center
pricing 77 5.3× 4733 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/resources/department-resources/mailing-resources.php
Mailing Services | Auxiliary Services
pricing 77 5.9× 2706 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.lsu.edu/engagement/resources/training.php
Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX Training
pricing 77 8.9× 986 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/manship/about/what-we-do/assessment-plan/index.php
Undergraduate Assessment Plan | LSU Manship School of Mass Communication
pricing 77 8.3× 1088 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/cct/resources/external-with-policies.php
External Resources | LSU CCT
pricing 77 8.7× 1658 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/police/about/career/index.php
Career Opportunities | LSU Police
pricing 77 7.3× 2174 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/manship/about/what-we-do/high-school-outreach/lspa-conference.php
LSPA Conference | LSU Manship School of Mass Communication
pricing 77 9.8× 895 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/services/book-spaces/reservation-guidelines-off-campus-entities.php
Reservation Guidelines Off Campus Entities | Auxiliary Services
pricing 77 9.0× 1349 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/services/theater/student-org-policies.php
Student Organizations Theater Policy | LSU Auxiliary Services
pricing 77 8.2× 2568 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/services/mail-on-campus.php
Mail on Campus | Auxiliary Services
pricing 77 6.7× 1380 💰 Pricing
https://www.lsu.edu/auxiliary-services/services/tiger-card/index.php
Tiger Card Office
pricing 77 6.5× 1792 💰 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
/career/ 113 59 0% 22.8× High JS Bloat
/housing/ 85 52 0% 35.6× High JS Bloat
/manship/ 61 59 0% 19.7× High JS Bloat
/urec/ 28 50 0% 37.7× High JS Bloat
/auxiliary-services/ 25 67 0% 14.1× High JS Bloat
/research/ 24 59 0% 23.1× High JS Bloat
/global-engagement/ 23 55 0% 25.1× High JS Bloat
/student-affairs/ 22 55 0% 19.6× High JS Bloat
/police/ 20 59 0% 20.7× High JS Bloat
/disability/ 19 56 0% 20.8× High JS Bloat
/admissions/ 18 64 0% 20.3× High JS Bloat
/engagement/ 13 61 0% 16.0× High JS Bloat
/shc/ 11 55 0% 31.4× High JS Bloat
/agriculture/ 6 65 0% 12.2× High JS Bloat
/administration/ 6 63 0% 14.7× High JS Bloat
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite lsu.edu 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

B 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.

62
Homepage ACRI
51
Inner Avg ACRI
+11
ACRI Delta
0%
Homepage Ghost
9%
Inner Avg Ghost
14
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
49 20% pricing https://www.lsu.edu/housing/about/blog/index.php
29 20% pricing https://www.lsu.edu/housing/about/blog/_props.php
49 20% pricing https://www.lsu.edu/blog/2024/03/lsus-enroll-record-227019.php
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

F 15/100

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

34 DOMAINS

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

245
Total Links
34
Unique Domains
16.3
Avg/Page
14%
Diversity
calendar.lsu.edu itservice.lsu.edu lib.lsu.edu twitter.com facebook.com youtube.com map.lsu.edu instagram.com linkedin.com dineoncampus.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 47.5

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to lsu.edu. 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": "Lsu",
  "url": "https://lsu.edu",
  "logo": "https://lsu.edu/_resources_fierce/img/favicon-16x16.png",
  "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": "Lsu",
  "url": "https://lsu.edu",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://lsu.edu/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 Lsu?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Lsu does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Lsu work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Lsu."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for lsu.edu:

Current Score
75
Projected Score
88
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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