sandia.gov 67 C
🛡️ SEO 38 🤖 GEO 81 ⚡ Perf 56 🏗️ Arch 90

sandia.gov — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

sandia.gov
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At 78/100, the ACRI for sandia.gov indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Within the government vertical, this places sandia.gov above the industry average of 57 —, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The low ghost ratio (0%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. A 5.4× bloat ratio is typical for sites in this tech tier — not wasteful, but streamlining could further boost extractability. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

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 3 snapshots
Mar 8 Mar 18
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)38 × 0.25 = 9.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)81 × 0.40 = 32.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)56 × 0.20 = 11.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)90 × 0.15 = 13.5
Weighted sum = 9.5 + 32.4 + 11.2 + 13.5
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
72
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 2%
Rank #16820
+11 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 12%
Score 78/100

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

Why sandia.gov ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat5.4×

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

28 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

385 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 26
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Sandia National Laboratories: Exceptional Service in the National Interest
  • ✓ og:description — Exceptional service in the national interest Our unique responsibilities in the nuclear weapons program create a foundation from which we leverage capabilities, enabling us to solve complex national security problems. Research Committed to science with the mission in mind, Sandia creates innovati...
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary
📐 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 government sector, gep.com (ACRI: 83) 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 →
sandia.gov
59
Your ACRI Score
83
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. gep.com has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses Drupal. 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 72/100 — Good
Structured Elements 100 elements (100 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words643
Raw Density15.6%

🏷️ 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

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

18%
🗑️ 82%
Useful Content (29.0 KB)Bloat (127.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio5.4× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context42% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage10 / 24 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 42% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 81.5% · SNR: 0.23 · Signal: 7424 / Noise: 32726 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of sandia.gov 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
Sandia National Laboratories provides science and technology solutions for national security and innovation.
Target Audience
Government agencies, industry partners, academic institutions, and research organizations.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Strong science, technology, and engineering foundation with collaborative research and innovation.
📊 Content Depth
3/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1559 ms
Raw HTML Size156.8 KB
Visible Text Size29.0 KB

Performance & Speed

56/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1559 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

720
DOM nodes
157 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-store
  • ✗ 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

90/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.sandia.gov/wp-sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

120
internal links
23
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-US
  • ✓ 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 26 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
59
Single-page score
-28
Severe hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
31
Avg across 26 pages · Range 0–67
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 59, but internal pages average only 31 — a -28-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
3%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
8312
Avg Bloat
108.8×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.sandia.gov/public-health-service-financial-conflict-of-interest-policy/
Public Health Service Financial Conflict of Interest Policy – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 67 14.9× 1985 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/archive/
Archive – Sandia National Laboratories
other 59 30.8× 977
https://www.sandia.gov/privacy-and-security/
Privacy and Security – Sandia National Laboratories
legal 59 28.8× 970
https://www.sandia.gov/site-directory/
Site Directory – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 59 41.7× 792 💰 Pricing
https://sandia.gov/about
About Sandia – Sandia National Laboratories
about 46 89.6× 359
https://sandia.gov/contact
Contact Us – Sandia National Laboratories
support 46 66.0× 441
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/inclement-weather-delayed-start-time-10-a-m-at-sandias-albuquerque-site/
Inclement weather delayed start time 10 a.m., at Sandia’s Albuquerque site – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 46 101.9× 266 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/power-outage-closure-at-kirtland-air-force-base-march-15-2024-2/
Power outage closure at Kirtland Air Force Base, March 15, 2024 – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 46 99.2× 274 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/contact-us/
Contact Us – Sandia National Laboratories
support 46 65.2× 444
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/
Emergency Alerts – Sandia National Laboratories
other 46 62.5× 485
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/inclement-weather-3-p-m-early-release-at-sandias-albuquerque-nm-site/
Inclement weather 3 p.m. early release at Sandia’s Albuquerque, NM, site – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 46 92.9× 292 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/inclement-weather-delayed-start-time-9-10-a-m-at-sandias-albuquerque-site/
Inclement weather delayed start time 9-10 a.m., at Sandia’s Albuquerque site – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 46 101.9× 266 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/delayed-start-time-at-sandias-albuquerque-site-nov-7/
Delayed start time at Sandia’s Albuquerque site, Nov. 7 – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 36 139.0× 194 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/sandia-to-resume-normal-operations-on-kafb-saturday-march-16-at-5-a-m/
Sandia to resume normal operations on KAFB Saturday, March 16, at 5 a.m. – Sandia National Laboratories
other 36 164.3× 164
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/delayed-start-time-at-sandias-abq-site-dec-4/
Delayed start time at Sandia’s ABQ site, Dec. 4 – Sandia National Laboratories
pricing 36 138.8× 194 💰 Pricing
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/update-power-outage-closure-at-kirtland-air-force-base-march-15-2024/
Update: Power Outage closure at Kirtland Air Force Base March 15, 2024 – Sandia National Laboratories
other 36 204.1× 132
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/power-outage-closure-at-kirtland-air-force-base-march-15-2024/
CLOSURE: – Sandia National Laboratories
other 26 649.3× 41
https://www.sandia.gov/alerts/lapse-in-appropriations/
Lapse in appropriations – Sandia National Laboratories
other 26 738.4× 36
https://sandia.gov/pricing pricing 0 0.0× 0
https://sandia.gov/features product 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
/alerts/ 11 39 0% 226.6× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact-us/ 1 46 0% 65.2× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 46 0% 89.6× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 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
/privacy-and-security/ 1 59 0% 28.8× High JS Bloat
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 46 0% 66.0× High JS Bloat
/site-directory/ 1 59 0% 41.7× High JS Bloat
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/public-health-service-financial-conflict-of-interest-policy/ 1 67 0% 14.9× High JS Bloat
/archive/ 1 59 0% 30.8× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 26 pages
twitter.com ×18
facebook.com ×18
newsreleases.sandia.gov ×18
instagram.com ×18
ip.sandia.gov ×18
youtube.com ×18
flickr.com ×18
linkedin.com ×18
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to sandia.gov. 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": "Sandia",
  "url": "https://sandia.gov",
  "logo": "https://www.sandia.gov/app/themes/thunderberg/favicon.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": "Sandia",
  "url": "https://sandia.gov",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://sandia.gov/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 Sandia?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Sandia does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Sandia work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Sandia."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for sandia.gov:

Current Score
78
Projected Score
94
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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