ndsu.edu 67 C
🛡️ SEO 38 🤖 GEO 81 ⚡ Perf 62 🏗️ Arch 86

ndsu.edu — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

ndsu.edu
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With a solid 75/100 ACRI, ndsu.edu is well-positioned for AI search — better than 81% of sites in the Radar. Within the education vertical, this places ndsu.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 4.7×, 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. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

67
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (38) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 25 snapshots
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🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)38 × 0.25 = 9.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)81 × 0.40 = 32.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)62 × 0.20 = 12.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)86 × 0.15 = 12.9
Weighted sum = 9.5 + 32.4 + 12.4 + 12.9
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
65
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 3%
Rank #25615
+17 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 19%
Score 75/100

ndsu.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 ndsu.edu ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat4.7×

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).
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JavaScript Rendering Check

We check what AI crawlers miss when they skip JavaScript execution.

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Traditional SEO

38/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

36 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

310 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 19
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.ndsu.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
  • ✗ 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

81/100 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, rndirectors.com (ACRI: 85) 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 →
ndsu.edu
58
Your ACRI Score
85
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. rndirectors.com has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses WordPress. 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 65/100 — Good
Structured Elements 76 elements (76 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words608
Raw Density12.5%

🏷️ 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

65
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability65/100 — 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

21%
🗑️ 79%
Useful Content (19.2 KB)Bloat (70.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio4.7× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage12 / 12 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

8 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 78.6% · SNR: 0.27 · Signal: 4913 / Noise: 18088 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of ndsu.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 provides a comprehensive resource for graduate students in North Dakota and Minnesota, offering links to community resources, financial
Target Audience
Graduate students, prospective graduate students, and their families in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Extensive local resource aggregation and curated information for graduate students.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Directory of resourcesEvent listingsLinks to external organizations
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Limited SEO structure
• Lack of a centralized database for graduate student resources
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1040 ms
Raw HTML Size89.8 KB
Visible Text Size19.2 KB

Performance & Speed

62/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1040 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

689
DOM nodes
90 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

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

86/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

89
internal links
10
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.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 110 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
58
Single-page score
-15
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
43
Avg across 110 pages · Range 0–77
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 58, but internal pages average only 43 — a -15-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
13%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
47226
Avg Bloat
116.6×
RAG Fractures [?]
1
⚠️
1 RAG-Chunking Fracture Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 1 page will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/meditation_and_mindfulness
Meditation and Mindfulness
blog 77 9.1× 2526
http://www.ndsu.edu/onestop/finaid/guide
Financial Aid Guide
pricing 67 13.1× 2271 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/making_new_friends
College Life and New Friends
pricing 67 14.1× 1383 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/test_anxiety
Managing Test Anxiety
blog 67 13.9× 1455
http://www.ndsu.edu/graduate-school/about/community-resources
Community Resources
about 67 14.9× 1322
http://www.ndsu.edu/onestop/resources/policies
Policies and Procedures, Consumer Information
pricing 67 10.1× 2769 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/onestop/resources/consumer
Consumer Information
pricing 67 16.5× 1950 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/grief_and_trauma
Recovering From Grief and Trauma
pricing 67 10.9× 1919 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/about/campus/history-traditions
History & Traditions
about 64 15.0× 1141
http://www.ndsu.edu/about/campus
Explore NDSU’s Campus
about 59 32.3× 547
http://www.ndsu.edu/about/alumni
Once a Bison, Always a Bison
pricing 59 30.7× 531 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/english/about
About
about 59 20.1× 952
http://www.ndsu.edu/staff_senate/about/Staff_Senate_Committees
Staff Senate Committees
about 59 23.3× 680
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library
Self-Help Library
pricing 59 30.7× 928 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/assertiveness_skills
Assertiveness Skills
pricing 59 20.7× 940 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/study_skills_tips
Study Skills Tips
pricing 59 24.4× 752 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/transitions
Transitions
blog 59 35.4× 510
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/time_management
Time Management
pricing 59 25.1× 731 💰 Pricing
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/anxiety_information
Anxiety Information
blog 59 22.6× 868
http://www.ndsu.edu/counseling/resources/self_help_library/depression_information
Depression Information
blog 59 27.1× 715
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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
/onestop/ 37 45 0% 134.8× High JS Bloat
/counseling/ 18 57 0% 33.2× High JS Bloat
/about/ 7 58 0% 31.1× High JS Bloat
/marketing-communications/ 6 44 0% 111.9× High JS Bloat
/graduate-school/ 4 58 0% 29.6× High JS Bloat
/forward/ 4 34 0% 356.6× High JS Bloat
/dining/ 3 39 0% 89.7× High JS Bloat
/staff_senate/ 3 45 0% 162.4× High JS Bloat
/communication/ 3 36 0% 175.5× High JS Bloat
/spanish-global-studies/ 3 36 0% 172.2× High JS Bloat
/physics/ 2 41 0% 94.6× High JS Bloat
/women-gender-studies/ 2 41 0% 81.5× High JS Bloat
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/facultysenate/ 1 26 0% 1451.6× High JS Bloat
/studenthealthservice/ 1 46 0% 114.7× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 110 pages
youtube.com ×102
myndsu.ndsu.edu ×102
ndsufoundation.com ×102
gobison.com ×102
ndstate.co1.qualtrics.com ×101
twitter.com ×101
linkedin.com ×101
instagram.com ×101
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to ndsu.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": "Ndsu",
  "url": "https://ndsu.edu",
  "logo": "https://ndsu.edu/sites/default/files/favicon/ndsu-favicon/favicon-96x96.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": "Ndsu",
  "url": "https://ndsu.edu",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://ndsu.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 Ndsu?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Ndsu does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Ndsu work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Ndsu."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

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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