mnstate.edu 73 B
🛡️ SEO 45 🤖 GEO 83 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 90

mnstate.edu — Global SEODiff Score 73/100

mnstate.edu
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mnstate.edu shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 77/100, outperforming 86% of indexed domains. Within the education vertical, this places mnstate.edu above the industry average of 57 —, 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 token bloat ratio sits at a lean 2.3×, meaning the ratio of code to visible content is efficient — crawlers spend their token budget on actual information. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

73
B — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (45) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 7 snapshots
Feb 23 Mar 19
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
📉 Mar 19 ACRI -1 (65→64)
🔄 Mar 14 Content change detected
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)45 × 0.25 = 11.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)83 × 0.40 = 33.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)90 × 0.15 = 13.5
Weighted sum = 11.2 + 33.2 + 14.8 + 13.5
Global SEODiff Score = 73 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
69
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 10%
Rank #97187
Aligned
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 14%
Score 77/100

mnstate.edu has balanced Google and AI visibility — both rank roughly in the same tier. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why mnstate.edu ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat2.3×

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…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

45/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

24 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

232 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 2
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.mnstate.edu/
  • ✓ 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 — Minnesota State Moorhead
  • ✓ og:description — You'll receive an exceptional education at an unrivaled value from Minnesota State Moorhead, a public university in northwest Minnesota. When you're among Dragons, you'll find the courage and drive to achieve your highest potential.
  • ✓ 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

83/100 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 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 →
mnstate.edu
64
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.
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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 0%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 69/100 — Good
Structured Elements 118 elements (118 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words815
Raw Density14.5%

🏷️ 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

66
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability66/100 — 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

43%
🗑️ 57%
Useful Content (28.1 KB)Bloat (36.3 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio2.3× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context80% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage4 / 5 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

68 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 56.4% · SNR: 0.77 · Signal: 7189 / Noise: 9282 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of mnstate.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 website outlines the rights and responsibilities of students at Minnesota State University Moorhead, covering academic freedom, freedom of expression,
Target Audience
Students (undergraduate, graduate, online), prospective students, parents, faculty, and staff at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Comprehensive student rights and responsibilities framework, aligned with state and federal regulations, providing a clear and accessible guide for students.
📊 Content Depth
7/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Complex legal and policy language
• Lack of centralized, easily accessible information
• Potential for student misunderstandings regarding rights and responsibilities
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-05

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
ServerMicrosoft-IIS/10.0
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time744 ms
Raw HTML Size64.3 KB
Visible Text Size28.1 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

744 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

695
DOM nodes
64 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

90/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

128
internal links
17
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 64/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for mnstate.edu
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 42 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
64
Single-page score
-15
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
50
Avg across 42 pages · Range 0–77
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 64, but internal pages average only 50 — a -15-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
27221
Avg Bloat
14.1×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/policies-procedures/student-rights-responsibilities
Student Rights & Responsibilities at MSU Moorhead
about 77 8.4× 1120
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/accreditation/program-accreditation
Accreditation & Certifications at Minnesota State University Moorhead
about 77 10.0× 1386
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/engaged-learning
Center for Engaged Learning at Minnesota State Moorhead
pricing 77 8.5× 2390 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/accreditation/licensure-certification
Licensure & Certification Disclosure at MSU Moorhead
pricing 77 5.1× 3772 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/academics/support/asc/student-learning-resources/advising-registration
Academic Success Center Advising & Registration at Moorhead
pricing 77 7.0× 1579 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/institutional-effectiveness/student-right-to-know
Student Right-to-Know at Minnesota State Moorhead
about 67 13.3× 821
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/institutional-effectiveness/institutional-reports
Institutional Annual Reports at MSU Moorhead
about 67 16.6× 672
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/assessment
Minnesota State Moorhead's University Assessment
pricing 67 11.4× 759 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/strategic-priorities
Minnesota State Moorhead Strategic Framework
pricing 67 11.2× 1046 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/institutional-effectiveness/graduate-statistics
Graduate Follow-up Survey & Statistics at MSU Moorhead
pricing 67 11.4× 1458 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/accreditation
Accreditation & Compliance for Minnesota State University Moorhead
about 67 17.8× 502
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/mission
Minnesota State Moorhead Strategic Framework
pricing 67 11.2× 1046 💰 Pricing
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/facts
Minnesota State Moorhead Facts
about 67 13.5× 751
https://www.mnstate.edu/contact/accessibility
Accessibility at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
support 67 10.8× 800
https://www.mnstate.edu/academics/support
Academic Support at Minnesota State Moorhead
support 67 15.8× 537
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/history-traditions
Minnesota State Moorhead History & Traditions
pricing 64 17.6× 853 💰 Pricing
https://mnstate.edu/about
About Minnesota State Moorhead
about 64 17.0× 611
https://www.mnstate.edu/about
About Minnesota State Moorhead
about 64 17.0× 611
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/outcomes
MSU Moorhead Graduate Outcomes
about 64 19.0× 547
https://www.mnstate.edu/about/university-leadership
University Leadership at Minnesota State Moorhead
about 64 19.5× 668
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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
/about/ 23 64 0% 15.5× High JS Bloat
/academics/ 7 56 0% 21.2× High JS Bloat
/library/ 2 49 0% 27.3× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 67 0% 10.8× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/admissions/ 1 49 0% 23.6× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 42 pages
msumdragons.com ×34
nces.ed.gov ×34
twitter.com ×34
facebook.com ×34
outlook.com ×34
youtube.com ×34
instagram.com ×34
msumfoundation.org ×34
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

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

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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