rtl.de 52 D
🛡️ SEO 29 🤖 GEO 53 ⚡ Perf 41 🏗️ Arch 100

rtl.de — Global SEODiff Score 52/100

rtl.de
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rtl.de scores 52/100 on the AI-Readiness Index, placing it in the middle tier of indexed domains — there is clear room for improvement. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), rtl.de is trailing the benchmark, indicating room for competitive improvement. Content is delivered server-side, meaning bots and AI agents can parse the full page without executing JavaScript. A 50.0× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Most AI crawlers are restricted by robots.txt, limiting how AI-powered search engines can index and surface this content.

52
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (29) has the most room for improvement.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (171×) → +5–10 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 20, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Feb 23 Mar 20
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
🔄 Mar 20 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 20 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 18 Content change detected
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)29 × 0.25 = 7.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)53 × 0.40 = 21.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)41 × 0.20 = 8.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)100 × 0.15 = 15.0
Weighted sum = 7.2 + 21.2 + 8.2 + 15.0
Global SEODiff Score = 52 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
40
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
43
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.5%
Rank #5281
+58 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 58%
Score 52/100

rtl.de 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 rtl.de ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat50×+

Fastest improvements

  • Allow GPTBot in robots.txt so AI crawlers can access your pages (see Crawl Access).
  • 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).
  • 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

29/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

45 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

159 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 24
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.rtl.de
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → de
  • ➖ Hreflang tags — N/A (single language site)
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — RTL.de: Nachrichten, die Deutschland bewegen.
  • ✓ og:description — Alles, was ihr braucht, auf einen Blick: Nachrichten, TV- und Streaming-Highlights, Star-News, RTL-Sportereignisse sowie Lifestyle- und Ratgeber-Informationen.
  • ✓ 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.

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AI Readiness / GEO

53/100 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 infrastructure sector, safely.co.jp (ACRI: 90) 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 →
rtl.de
42
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.
📊 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)
Blocked
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Allowed
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡GPTBot is blocked. To appear in ChatGPT citations, add Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.

👻 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 43/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 243 elements (243 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words4373
Raw Density5.6%

🏷️ 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

38
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
High
Blocklist Risk
Extractability38/100 — AI models can barely extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (100/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskHigh — 3 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

1%
🗑️ 99%
Useful Content (30.0 KB)Bloat (5090.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio50×+ — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage224 / 224 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 5120.0 KB, but only 30.0 KB is text. 1% useful / 99% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (50×+) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 99.4% · SNR: 0.01 · Signal: 7675 / Noise: 1303045 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of rtl.de 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
RTL+ provides on-demand access to a vast library of RTL television content, including live streams and full episodes of popular shows and movies.
Target Audience
TV viewers, RTL channel subscribers, families seeking entertainment options, German-speaking audiences interested in RTL programming.
Pricing Model
Subscription-based access to RTL+ content, with tiered pricing options (likely based on features and viewing quality).
🏆 Competitive Moat
Extensive RTL content library and live streaming capabilities, combined with a strong brand reputation in German television.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Links to individual shows and moviesCategorization of content by genre and theme
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Lack of explicit pricing information
• Limited information on specific features beyond basic access
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time598 ms
Raw HTML Size5120.0 KB
Visible Text Size30.0 KB

Performance & Speed

41/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

598 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

4633
DOM nodes
5120 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=30s, stale-if-error=3600, stale-while-revalidate=180
  • ✗ 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

100/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.rtl.de/sitemap-index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✗ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

484
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 → de
  • ✓ 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 42/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 226 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
42
Single-page score
+17
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
60
Avg across 226 pages · Range 0–65
Topical Cohesion
11%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
217463
Avg Bloat
188.2×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6714954.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 51.4× 2475 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30076486.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 50.2× 2553 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30095227.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 56.4× 2171 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id4936447.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 56.3× 2179 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6631247.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 56.7× 2158 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6806286.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 55.1× 2191 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30161956.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 47.8× 2731 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id4419389.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 56.4× 2179 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30118012.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 55.7× 2188 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30110272.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 57.9× 2107 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6777119.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 57.1× 2129 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30316485.html
GEWINNSPIELBESCHREIBUNG
pricing 65 60.8× 2662 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30223252.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 50.1× 2564 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30260989.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 50.5× 2536 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30220959.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 49.9× 2572 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id30149303.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 56.7× 2160 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6854906.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 50.1× 2560 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/gewinnspielbeschreibung-id6822061.html
Gewinnspielbeschreibung
pricing 65 50.5× 2536 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/rtl-deutschland-veranstaltet-in-der-zeit-16-10-23-10-2025-ein-gewinnspiel-mit-folgendem-inhalt-id6805198.html
RTL Deutschland veranstaltet in der Zeit 16.10-23.10.2025 ein Gewinnspiel mit folgendem Inhalt:
pricing 65 60.5× 2675 💰 Pricing
https://www.rtl.de/cms/service/teilnahmebedingungen-id6796370.html
Teilnahmebedingungen
pricing 65 60.6× 2684 💰 Pricing
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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
/news/ 54 63 1% 232.6× Bot Blocked
/sendungen/ 46 65 1% 235.6× Bot Blocked
/cms/ 29 65 1% 91.7× Bot Blocked
/unterhaltung/ 29 64 1% 199.5× Bot Blocked
/sport/ 12 64 1% 206.5× Bot Blocked
/geld/ 11 65 1% 195.6× Bot Blocked
/ratgeber/ 10 65 1% 202.0× Bot Blocked
/rtl-west/ 6 65 1% 256.1× Bot Blocked
/leben/ 5 65 1% 177.4× Bot Blocked
/reality/ 3 65 1% 188.9× Bot Blocked
/serien/ 2 65 1% 141.3× Bot Blocked
/rtl-nord/ 2 65 1% 240.1× Bot Blocked
/help/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/wetter/ 1 65 1% 208.3× Bot Blocked
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 226 pages
unternehmen.rtl.de ×211
rtl-living.de ×211
company.rtl.com ×211
cybersecurity.rtl.de ×211
prospekte.rtl.de ×211
wetter.de ×211
rtl-up.de ×211
jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com ×211
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to rtl.de. 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": "Rtl",
  "url": "https://rtl.de",
  "logo": "https://rtl.de/favicon.ico?141339703335374e",
  "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": "Rtl",
  "url": "https://rtl.de",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://rtl.de/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow GPTBot in robots.txt
High Impact ⏱ 2 min
GPTBot is blocked — your content cannot appear in ChatGPT citations. Add this to your robots.txt:
text
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 0% 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 Rtl?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Rtl does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Rtl work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Rtl."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for rtl.de:

Current Score
52
Projected Score
78
Improvement
+26 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 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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