qualys.com 67 C
🛡️ SEO 65 🤖 GEO 58 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 82

qualys.com — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

qualys.com
📊

qualys.com shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 74/100, outperforming 78% of indexed domains. Within the developer vertical, this places qualys.com above the industry average of 57 —, 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. Heavy markup overhead (19.6× bloat) forces AI systems to wade through excess code before finding useful information. Rich structured data (6 schema blocks) gives AI systems strong semantic signals for entity recognition and knowledge graph inclusion. 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 AI Readiness (58) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Monitor weekly to catch regressions early
⚠️ Crawl Blocked: Fetch failed (network timeout / connection error)
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 15, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 2 snapshots
Mar 6 Mar 15
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
No recent changes detected by adaptive crawler.
Does your site score higher than qualys.com?
Run the same 40-signal audit on your own domain — free, instant results.
Scan Your Site Free →
🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)65 × 0.25 = 16.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)58 × 0.40 = 23.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)82 × 0.15 = 12.3
Weighted sum = 16.2 + 23.2 + 14.8 + 12.3
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
22
Structure
avg 35
52
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.3%
Rank #3195
+22 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 22%
Score 74/100

qualys.com 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 qualys.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
Industrydeveloper
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage6 blocks
Token bloat19.6×

Fastest improvements

  • 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…

⚠️ Crawl Failed: Anti-Bot Protection Detected

Fetch failed (network timeout / connection error)

The scores below may not reflect actual site quality. The crawler received a challenge page instead of real content.

🛡️

Traditional SEO

65/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

52 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

150 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 2
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 15
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Enterprise Cyber Risk and Security Platform | Qualys
  • ✓ og:description — Discover how Qualys helps your business measure & eliminate cyber threats through a host of cybersecurity detection & remediation tools. Try it today!
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary_large_image
📐 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.

🤖

AI Readiness / GEO

58/100 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.

🔗

Citation Alternatives

Research
💡
Insight: In the developer sector, hikkoshizamurai.jp (ACRI: 88) 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 →
qualys.com
32
Your ACRI Score
88
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. hikkoshizamurai.jp has schema coverage of 5 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 22/100 — Low
Structured Elements 16 elements (16 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1115
Raw Density1.4%
💡Low structure score (22/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 16 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 ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks6 blocks

Schema Coverage Map

3/7 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.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

49
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability49/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

5%
🗑️ 95%
Useful Content (7.3 KB)Bloat (136.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio19.6× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context87% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage39 / 45 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: 94.9% · SNR: 0.05 · Signal: 1879 / Noise: 35000 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

🌐
This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
🤖

AI Answer Preview

NEW

See how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.

Simulating AI extraction…
🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of qualys.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
Cloud security and compliance solutions for IT systems and web applications
Target Audience
IT security teams, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, CSOs, CIOs
Pricing Model
Not explicitly stated, but likely enterprise pricing based on customer scale
🏆 Competitive Moat
Leading in cloud security with the Enterprise TruRisk Platform
📊 Content Depth
5/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No structured FAQ schema
• Thin landing pages for features
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time543 ms
Raw HTML Size144.1 KB
Visible Text Size7.3 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

543 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

706
DOM nodes
144 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public,max-age=0,must-revalidate
  • ✓ CDN cache status → DYNAMIC
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 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

82/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

45
internal links
7
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
  • ✓ 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 is currently blocking AI crawlers. Unblock them and rescan to earn your AI-Verified badge.

AI-Verified badge for qualys.com
Unverified — crawl access is blocked
<a href="https://seodiff.io/radar/domains/qualys.com" rel="noopener"><img src="https://seodiff.io/api/v1/badge?domain=qualys.com" alt="AI-Verified by SEODiff" width="280" height="52"></a>

💡 Paste in your site footer, GitHub README, or email signature. Badge updates automatically as your score changes.

� Deep Crawl Analysis 333 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
32
Single-page score
+19
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
52
Avg across 333 pages · Range 0–95
Topical Cohesion
19%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
365844
Avg Bloat
114.1×
RAG Fractures [?]
12
⚠️
12 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 12 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.qualys.com/fundamentals/identity-security-posture-management-ispm
What is Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) | Qualys
pricing 95 3.4× 7033 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/ci-cd-security-best-practices
CI/CD Pipeline Security Best Practices: Complete Guide | Qualys
pricing 92 5.0× 2579 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/what-is-cnapp-guide
What is a CNAPP? The Ultimate Guide to Cloud-Native Application Protection
pricing 92 4.3× 3700 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/external-attack-surface-management
What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)? | Qualys
pricing 92 4.7× 3071 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/what-is-ctem-threat-exposure-management
What is CTEM? Complete Guide to Threat Exposure Management | Qualys
pricing 92 4.4× 3284 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/what-is-agentic-ai
What is Agentic AI? A Complete Guide to Autonomous Intelligence | Qualys
pricing 87 5.9× 2835 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/cyber-security-asset-management
What is Cybersecurity Asset Management (CSAM)? - Qualys
pricing 87 5.1× 3000 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/what-is-kubernetes-security-posture-management-kspm
What is KSPM? Kubernetes Security Explained | Qualys
pricing 87 5.2× 2527 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/cybersecurity-risk-management
Cybersecurity Risk Management: Process, Benefits & Key Frameworks
pricing 87 6.4× 1647 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/support/faq/pci
Qualys PCI FAQ
pricing 82 3.6× 4393 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/connectors
IT Security and Compliance Platform | Qualys, Inc.
other 77 9.1× 3019
https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2025
The Risk Operations Conference 2025, Houston
pricing 77 9.8× 10082 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qualys.com/rocon
The Risk Operations Conference 2025, Houston
pricing 77 9.8× 10082 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2025/houston
The Risk Operations Conference 2025, Houston
pricing 77 9.8× 10082 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qualys.com/2025/sector-canada
Revolutionizing Cyber Risk Management at SECTOR Blackhat Event
pricing 77 6.7× 2647 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/rocon/2025/mumbai
The Risk Operations Conference 2025, Mumbai
pricing 77 9.5× 5567 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qualys.com/fundamentals/what-is-vulnerability-management-detection-response
Vulnerability Management Detection & Response FAQs & Resources
other 77 12.0× 1187
https://www.qualys.com/company/privacy/content
Qualys Privacy Policy | Data Protection & User Privacy | Qualys
about 76 5.0× 3379
https://www.qualys.com/company/management
Executive Management Team and Board of Directors | Qualys
pricing 74 7.4× 1612 💰 Pricing
https://www.qualys.com/company/board-of-directors
Leadership at Qualys: Board Members Shaping Our Future
pricing 74 7.2× 1603 💰 Pricing
Showing 20 of 100 pages. Unlock full subpage table →
📂
Health by Sub-Directory
Average ACRI and top issues aggregated by URL path prefix
Path Pages Avg ACRI Ghost % Bloat Top Issue
/apps/ 49 62 1% 27.8× Bot Blocked
/lp/ 36 41 1% 45.0× Bot Blocked
/company/ 16 53 1% 456.9× Bot Blocked
/solutions/ 15 57 1% 37.4× Bot Blocked
/rocon/ 14 56 0% 31.1× High JS Bloat
/security-advisories/ 14 40 1% 35.0× Bot Blocked
/2025/ 13 49 0% 40.7× High JS Bloat
/connectors/ 13 43 1% 40.3× Bot Blocked
/qsc/ 13 63 0% 15.7× High JS Bloat
/fundamentals/ 12 84 0% 7.4× High JS Bloat
/partners/ 11 45 1% 246.4× Bot Blocked
/2024/ 10 49 1% 94.5× Bot Blocked
/support/ 8 70 0% 9.0× High JS Bloat
/switch-now/ 7 46 0% 196.8× High JS Bloat
/subscriptions/ 5 52 1% 41.0× Bot Blocked
🔄 Re-Crawl & Update 📡 Track this Domain

Scores update automatically each month. Create a free account for on-demand re-crawls (3/month free).

🔌 API Access

Pull this data programmatically. All sub-page metrics are available via our public API.

curl https://seodiff.io/api/v1/deep10/domain/qualys.com

Get your free API key — 100 requests/month included.

🔗 Similar developer Sites

Domains with a similar tech stack, industry, and AI readiness profile to qualys.com. Compare side-by-side.

Domain ACRI AI Score Tech Stack Token Bloat Schema
qualys.com (this site) 32 74 Next.js 19.6× 6
figma.com 57 68 Next.js 276.5× 1 Compare →
ensedeciencia.com 57 77 WordPress 19.1× 1 Compare →
didyouknowfacts.com 57 78 WordPress 19.0× 1 Compare →
crocoblock.com 57 77 WordPress 21.4× 1 Compare →
rivieraprofumi.com 57 78 WordPress 17.4× 1 Compare →
Compare All 5 Similar Sites →

📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite qualys.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.

Analyzing citation landscape…

🎭

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.

64
Homepage ACRI
42
Inner Avg ACRI
+22
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
54%
Inner Avg Ghost
15
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
32 70% pricing https://www.qualys.com/company/newsroom/news-releases
22 70% pricing https://www.qualys.com/company/events
52 70% pricing https://www.qualys.com/resources
🛡️

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

45 DOMAINS

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

161
Total Links
45
Unique Domains
10.7
Avg/Page
28%
Diversity
vimeo.com facebook.com twitter.com linkedin.com youtube.com blog.qualys.com success.qualys.com notifications.qualys.com community.qualys.com qualysguard.qualys.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 41.9

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 5% of your HTML is useful content. AI crawlers waste context window tokens on bloat.
html
<!-- Move inline CSS to external stylesheets -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css">

<!-- Move inline scripts to external files with defer -->
<script src="/js/app.js" defer></script>

<!-- Remove duplicate navigation blocks -->
<!-- Keep only ONE <nav> in the <header> -->

<!-- Ensure <main> wraps your primary content -->
<main>
  <!-- Your content here — this is what AI sees first -->
</main>
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 Qualys?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Qualys does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Qualys work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Qualys."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
74
Projected Score
82
Improvement
+8 pts
Reduce token bloat +5 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

📋 Data Export

Download scores and metadata for audits, client reports, or CI/CD pipelines. Exports contain computed metrics only (no copyrighted content).

All data is generated automatically and updated with each crawl. JSON exports contain scores and metadata only (no copyrighted content).

Is this your company?

Monitor your AI visibility score weekly and get alerted when changes happen.

Start Free →

🧭 Self-Diffing (Private Layer)

For owned domains, combine this world snapshot with private drift + regression history.
Template Drift
Track in My Site
Drift → Traffic Impact
In development coming soon
Regression Incidents
Track in My Site
Internal Linking
Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
Content Quality
Thin/duplicate tracking

🕒 History

Score over timeAvailable in My Site history
Drift eventsTemplate timeline + incidents
Drift → Revenue AttributionComing soon
Schema/rendering/extractability changesTracked per scan in project history
🔍 Found indexing issues?
Run a free deep audit to diagnose crawled-not-indexed, soft 404s, redirect errors, and more.
Free Deep Audit → GSC Error Guide →