psychologytoday.com 60 C
🛡️ SEO 43 🤖 GEO 77 ⚡ Perf 39 🏗️ Arch 72

psychologytoday.com — Global SEODiff Score 60/100

psychologytoday.com
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With a solid 78/100 ACRI, psychologytoday.com is well-positioned for AI search — better than 88% of sites in the Radar. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), psychologytoday.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Its server-rendered architecture ensures AI crawlers receive complete HTML on first request, a key advantage for extractability. The token bloat ratio sits at a lean 3.6×, meaning the ratio of code to visible content is efficient — crawlers spend their token budget on actual information. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. All major AI bot user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended) are permitted by robots.txt, ensuring broad AI crawler access.

60
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (39) is your bottleneck.
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📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Mar 5 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
🔄 Mar 21 Content change detected
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📈 Mar 20 ACRI +1 (59→60)
📉 Mar 19 ACRI -1 (60→59)
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)43 × 0.25 = 10.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)77 × 0.40 = 30.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)39 × 0.20 = 7.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)72 × 0.15 = 10.8
Weighted sum = 10.8 + 30.8 + 7.8 + 10.8
Global SEODiff Score = 60 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
47
Structure
avg 35
42
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.1%
Rank #1127
+12 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 12%
Score 78/100

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

Why psychologytoday.com ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat3.6×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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Traditional SEO

43/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

67 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

213 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 43
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

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

77/100 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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60
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. safely.co.jp has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses WordPress. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
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Hallucination Risk

Research

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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 47/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 205 elements (205 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3131
Raw Density6.6%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

1/7 schema types detected
✅ Organization
❌ Product/Service
❌ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
❌ WebSite
💡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

70
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability70/100 — 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

27%
🗑️ 73%
Useful Content (45.2 KB)Bloat (118.2 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.6× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context54% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage35 / 65 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

35 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 72.3% · SNR: 0.38 · Signal: 11569 / Noise: 30263 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of psychologytoday.com 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 connects users with verified mental health professionals – therapists, psychiatrists, and treatment centers – both in-person and online, facilitating access to professional support.
Target Audience
Individuals seeking mental health support, families needing therapy, and those looking for specialized treatment centers.
Pricing Model
Professionals pay a flat fee for listings; no premium placements exist.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Verified professional listings and unbiased search results, combined with a long-standing reputation and global reach.
📊 Content Depth
5/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Search with Confidence: Reliable search resultsRotating exposure: Randomized rotations ensure no single listing dominates
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Lack of structured FAQ schema
• Thin landing pages for features
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
ServerApache
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1063 ms
Raw HTML Size163.4 KB
Visible Text Size45.2 KB

Performance & Speed

39/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1063 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1693
DOM nodes
163 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=5529600, public
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 Tracker Tax

1
tracker scripts
1
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
doubleclick.net
📐 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

72/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

421
internal links
4
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-CA
  • ✓ 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 23 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
60
Single-page score
-55
Severe hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
5
Avg across 23 pages · Range 0–67
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 60, but internal pages average only 5 — a -55-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
2%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
896
Avg Bloat
2.3×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://psychologytoday.com/about
About Us
about 67 10.2× 556
https://psychologytoday.com/help
Log in | Psychology Today
support 49 42.9× 340
https://psychologytoday.com/pricing pricing 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/api docs 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/guides blog 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/resources blog 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/products product 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/solutions product 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/features product 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/docs docs 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/blog blog 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/demo conversion 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/get-started conversion 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/case-studies social-proof 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/faq support 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/support support 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/integrations integrations 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/contact support 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/security trust 0 0.0× 0
https://psychologytoday.com/trust trust 0 0.0× 0
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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
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/guides/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/demo/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/trust/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/terms/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 67 0% 10.2× High JS Bloat
/help/ 1 49 0% 42.9× High JS Bloat
/api/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/support/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/security/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 23 pages
docs.psychologytoday.com ×2
instagram.com ×1
join.psychologytoday.com ×1
bsky.app ×1
x.com ×1
facebook.com ×1
linkedin.com ×1
member.psychologytoday.com ×1
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite psychologytoday.com 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 2 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.

67
Homepage ACRI
49
Inner Avg ACRI
+18
ACRI Delta
0%
Homepage Ghost
20%
Inner Avg Ghost
22
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
49 20% support https://psychologytoday.com/help
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 35/100

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
Address: 10 Market St, Suite 750, Camana Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-9006, Cayman Islands © 2025 Sussex Dir
🔗

Citation Profile

10 DOMAINS

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

11
Total Links
10
Unique Domains
5.5
Avg/Page
91%
Diversity
docs.psychologytoday.com bsky.app x.com about.psychologytoday.com join.psychologytoday.com instagram.com linkedin.com member.psychologytoday.com subscribe.psychologytoday.com facebook.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 42.2

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to psychologytoday.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

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": "Psychologytoday",
  "url": "https://psychologytoday.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://psychologytoday.com/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 Psychologytoday?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Psychologytoday does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Psychologytoday work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Psychologytoday."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for psychologytoday.com:

Current Score
78
Projected Score
85
Improvement
+7 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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🧠 AI Citation Graph

How this domain is cited across the machine-readable web

0.3
AI-Trust
#1725
Global Rank
4%
Percentile
11
Inbound AI Links
0
Outbound AI Links
48
Avg Inbound ACRI
27%
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