qub.ac.uk 66 C
🛡️ SEO 44 🤖 GEO 76 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 83

qub.ac.uk — Global SEODiff Score 66/100

qub.ac.uk
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qub.ac.uk shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 79/100, outperforming 91% of indexed domains. In the education sector, qub.ac.uk outperforms the average (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. A 19.7× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. Minimal structured data (1 block) limits the site's ability to communicate entity relationships to AI systems. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

66
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (44) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add HSTS header → +2 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 27 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
No recent changes detected by adaptive crawler.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)44 × 0.25 = 11.0
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)76 × 0.40 = 30.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)83 × 0.15 = 12.4
Weighted sum = 11.0 + 30.4 + 11.8 + 12.4
Global SEODiff Score = 66 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
88
Structure
avg 35
2
Schema
avg 9
65
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 1%
Rank #14610
+8 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 9%
Score 79/100

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

Why qub.ac.uk ranks here

Tech stackLaravel
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat19.7×

Fastest improvements

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

44/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

61 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

156 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 2
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.qub.ac.uk
  • ✓ 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 — Queen's University Belfast: Shaping a Better World since 1845
  • ✓ og:description — A prestigious Russell Group UK university, Queen's University Belfast is a leader in innovation and impact, and is ranked 200 in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021)
  • ✓ 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

76/100 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 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 →
qub.ac.uk
65
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.
📊 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.

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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 88/100 — Excellent
Structured Elements 201 elements (201 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words872
Raw Density23.0%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

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

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

57
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability57/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (60/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

5%
🗑️ 95%
Useful Content (25.4 KB)Bloat (474.1 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio19.7× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage7 / 7 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: 6501 / Noise: 121364 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of qub.ac.uk 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
Queen’s University Belfast is a leading UK and Irish university focused on research and education, committed to shaping a better
Target Audience
Students, researchers, faculty, alumni, prospective students, and the general public interested in higher education and research.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Strong research reputation, historical legacy, membership in Russell Group, and commitment to innovation and economic impact.
📊 Content Depth
7/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Search for ‘Queen’s University Belfast’Search for ‘Athena Swan Silver status’Search for ‘Queen’s Anniversary Prize’
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Limited information on specific research areas beyond general statements.
• Lack of detailed information on specific programs and courses.
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkLaravel
AI-Readiness Score65/100
ServerApache
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time886 ms
Raw HTML Size499.5 KB
Visible Text Size25.4 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

886 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

863
DOM nodes
500 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✗ Cache-Control header
  • ✗ 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
googletagmanager.com
📐 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

83/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → http://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/sitemap/index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

226
internal links
9
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

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 137 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
65
Single-page score
-23
Severe hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
42
Avg across 137 pages · Range 0–56
🔍
Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 65, but internal pages average only 42 — a -23-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
6%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
49292
Avg Bloat
511.5×
RAG Fractures [?]
3
⚠️
3 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 3 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://qub.ac.uk/about
About | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 85.1× 1258 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/digital-transformation/about/awards/
Awards | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
about 56 137.7× 722
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/BroadcastContentforEducation/
Broadcast Content for Education | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 184.9× 539
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ITServiceDesk/
IT Service Desk | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 49.5× 2125 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Security/
Cyber Security - Protecting Our Information | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 60.8× 1699
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ITProcurementRecycling/
IT Procurement & Recycling | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 125.4× 806 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Security/DataEncryption/
Data Encryption | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 66.9× 1518
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/EstatesDirectorate/Services/Security/
Security | Estates Directorate | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 150.0× 672 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/EstatesDirectorate/Services/Maintenance/
Maintenance | Estates Directorate | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 87.5× 1177 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/EstatesDirectorate/Services/CarParking/
Car Parking | Estates Directorate | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 137.8× 730 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ITServiceDesk/Feedback/
Feedback | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 129.2× 768 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/working-from-home/
Working from home | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 83.8× 1231 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Catalogue/DataBackupandRecovery/
Data Backup and Recovery | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 182.6× 543
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Catalogue/LargeFormatPlotting/
Large Format Plotting | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 177.7× 558
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Security/MicrosoftDefender/
Microsoft Defender | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 142.6× 702
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ComputerLabs/
Computer Labs | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 185.8× 538 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/Microsoft365Queens/Microsoft365PermissionsandPrivacy/
Microsoft 365 Permissions and Privacy | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 190.4× 528
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ITServiceDesk/upgrading-to-windows-11/
Upgrading to Windows 11 | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 105.2× 955
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/ITServiceDesk/ITAccessAfterLeavingQUBStudent/
IT Access After Leaving QUB (Student) | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
pricing 56 148.1× 669 💰 Pricing
https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/InformationServices/Services/icdl/
ICDL (International Certification of Digital Literacy) | Information Services | Queen's University Belfast
product 56 125.5× 800
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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
/directorates/ 127 45 0% 545.1× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 36 0% 760.1× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 56 0% 85.1× High JS Bloat
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
🔗
Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 137 pages
facebook.com ×129
leadershipinstitute.co.uk ×129
pure.qub.ac.uk ×129
alumni.qub.ac.uk ×129
instagram.com ×129
youtube.com ×129
daro.qub.ac.uk ×129
virtualexperience.qub.ac.uk ×129
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite qub.ac.uk 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

F 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.

56
Homepage ACRI
36
Inner Avg ACRI
+20
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
40%
Inner Avg Ghost
100
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
36 40% support https://qub.ac.uk/contact
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 30/100

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

11 DOMAINS

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

19
Total Links
11
Unique Domains
9.5
Avg/Page
58%
Diversity
leadershipinstitute.co.uk facebook.com instagram.com daro.qub.ac.uk alumni.qub.ac.uk virtualexperience.qub.ac.uk pure.qub.ac.uk youtube.com linkedin.com qubis.co.uk
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 95.6

AI trust scores for the domains qub.ac.uk links to. Citing high-trust sources lifts your own credibility signal.

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to qub.ac.uk. 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": "Ac",
  "url": "https://qub.ac.uk",
  "logo": "https://qub.ac.uk/home/media/qub-shield-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": "Ac",
  "url": "https://qub.ac.uk",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://qub.ac.uk/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
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 Ac?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Ac does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Ac work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Ac."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for qub.ac.uk:

Current Score
79
Projected Score
97
Improvement
+18 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +5 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

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

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