sba.gov 70 B
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 86 ⚡ Perf 65 🏗️ Arch 77

sba.gov — Global SEODiff Score 70/100

sba.gov
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sba.gov achieves a 79/100 on the AI-Crawler Reality Index, reflecting above-average readiness for AI-driven discovery. In the government sector, sba.gov outperforms the average (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. The token bloat ratio sits at a lean 2.6×, meaning the ratio of code to visible content is efficient — crawlers spend their token budget on actual information. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

70
B — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (46) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 18, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 5 snapshots
Mar 4 Mar 18
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
🔄 Mar 15 Content change detected
📈 Mar 4 ACRI +1 (70→71)
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)86 × 0.40 = 34.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)65 × 0.20 = 13.0
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)77 × 0.15 = 11.5
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 34.4 + 13.0 + 11.5
Global SEODiff Score = 70 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
83
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #3681
+9 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 9%
Score 79/100

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

Why sba.gov ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat2.6×

Fastest improvements

  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • 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 →
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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…
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Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

29 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

144 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 12
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

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

86/100 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 →
sba.gov
71
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.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
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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 0%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 83/100 — Excellent
Structured Elements 239 elements (239 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1145
Raw Density20.9%

🏷️ 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

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

38%
🗑️ 62%
Useful Content (47.0 KB)Bloat (74.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio2.6× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context82% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage18 / 22 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

60 Entropy
Fair Token Bloat: Medium
Noise Ratio: 61.4% · SNR: 0.63 · Signal: 12032 / Noise: 19143 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
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AI Answer Preview

NEW

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

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of sba.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
SBA provides resources and support to small businesses for growth and recovery.
Target Audience
Small business owners, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Dedicated federal agency providing comprehensive small business support.
📊 Content Depth
3/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
ServerApache
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time503 ms
Raw HTML Size121.8 KB
Visible Text Size47.0 KB

Performance & Speed

65/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

503 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

1015
DOM nodes
122 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=1800, public
  • ✗ 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

77/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

242
internal links
8
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.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 1010 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
71
Single-page score
-15
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
57
Avg across 1010 pages · Range 0–77
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 71, but internal pages average only 57 — a -15-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
15%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
707281
Avg Bloat
36.2×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.sba.gov/article/2006/may/10/eric-m-thorson-inspector-general-ussmall-business-administration-subcommittee-government-management
Eric M. Thorson, Inspector General, U.S.Small Business Administration Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Finance, Accountability of the Commitee on Government Reform, United States House of Representatives, May 10, 2006 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 7.8× 3212 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2011/mar/10/peggy-e-gustafson-inspector-general-us-small-business-administration-small-business-entrepreneurship
Peggy E. Gustafson, Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration, Before the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, United States Senate, March 3, 2011 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 9.6× 2505 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2010/apr/21/peggy-e-gustafson-inspector-general-us-small-business-administration-small-business-committee-united
Peggy E. Gustafson, Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration, Before the Small Business Committee, United States House of Representatives, April 21, 2010 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 8.2× 3026 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2009/jul/16/debra-ritt-assistant-inspector-general-auditing-us-small-business-administration-ad-hoc-subcommittee
Debra Ritt, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, U.S. Small Business Administration, before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight of the Committee of Homeland Security and Government Affairs, United States Senate, July 16, 2009 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 8.7× 2804 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2007/nov/13/eric-m-thorson-inspector-general-us-small-business-administration-committee-small-business
Eric M. Thorson Inspector General U.S. Small Business Administration Before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship United States Senate November 13, 2007 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 8.1× 3036 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2007/sep/20/testimony-debra-s-ritt-assistant-inspector-general-auditing-us-small-business-administration
Testimony of Debra S. Ritt, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, U.S. Small Business Administration, Before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship United States Senate September 20, 2007 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 9.6× 2471 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2007/jul/25/statement-hon-eric-m-thorson-inspector-general-us-small-business-administration-committee-small
Statement of Hon. Eric M. Thorson, Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration Before the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship United States Senate July 25, 2007 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 9.2× 2595 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2006/jul/13/eric-m-thorson-inspector-general-us-small-business-administration-committee-homeland-security
Eric M. Thorson, Inspector General U.S. Small Business Administration Before the Committee On Homeland Security, Subcommitee On Management, Integration and Oversight, United States House of Representatives July 13, 2006 | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 77 9.3× 2600 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/st-louis-company-grows-over-200-percent-looking-export-markets
St. Louis Company Grows Over 200 Percent by Looking to Export Markets | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.9× 1100 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/article/2019/aug/09/va-16070-sba-offers-disaster-assistance-businesses-residents-virginia-affected-severe-weather
VA 16070 - SBA Offers Disaster Assistance to Businesses and Residents of Virginia Affected by Severe Weather and Flooding | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 14.5× 1618 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/how-write-your-business-plan-2019-style
How to Write Your Business Plan, 2019 Style | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 18.7× 1190 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/4-ways-mom-pop-businesses-can-outshine-their-bigger-competitors
4 Ways Mom and Pop Businesses Can Outshine Their Bigger Competitors | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 20.0× 1118 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/should-your-business-get-involved-awareness-campaign
Should Your Business Get Involved in an Awareness Campaign? | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.7× 1123 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/recent-natural-disasters-what-it-means-tax-wise-your-business
Recent Natural Disasters: What It Means Tax-wise for Your Business | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.4× 1150 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/22-holiday-marketing-ideas-local-businesses
22 Holiday Marketing Ideas for Local Businesses | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 18.8× 1183 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/you-have-business-idea-whats-next
You Have a Business Idea, What's Next? | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.7× 1120 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/17-ideas-marketing-seasonal-business-season
17 Ideas for Marketing a Seasonal Business in the Off-Season | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.9× 1109 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/interview-small-business-owner-who-also-happens-be-military-spouse
Interview with a Small Business Owner, Who also Happens to be a Military Spouse | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 12.3× 1861 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/can-you-really-start-business-just-smartphone-yes
Can You Really Start a Business With Just a Smartphone? Yes! | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 19.7× 1121 💰 Pricing
https://www.sba.gov/blog/5-key-tips-sales-forecasting-business-owners
5 Key Tips on Sales Forecasting for Business Owners | U.S. Small Business Administration
pricing 67 18.9× 1171 💰 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
/article/ 314 61 0% 28.8× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 186 60 0% 29.6× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 1010 pages
data.sba.gov ×1003
regulations.gov ×1003
instagram.com ×1003
twitter.com ×1003
youtube.com ×1003
whitehouse.gov ×1003
linkedin.com ×1003
usa.gov ×1003
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite sba.gov 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

A 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.

49
Homepage ACRI
42
Inner Avg ACRI
+7
ACRI Delta
20%
Homepage Ghost
20%
Inner Avg Ghost
8
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
59 20% pricing https://sba.gov/blog
59 20% pricing https://sba.gov/contact
39 20% pricing https://www.sba.gov/article/2017/aug/29/sba-revokes-authority-atlanta-micro-fund-inc-participate-sba-microloan-program
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E-E-A-T Trust Signals

C 40/100

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

19 DOMAINS

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

173
Total Links
19
Unique Domains
11.5
Avg/Page
11%
Diversity
youtube.com linkedin.com whitehouse.gov regulations.gov learning.sba.gov advocacy.sba.gov instagram.com usa.gov data.sba.gov facebook.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 40.3

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
79
Projected Score
92
Improvement
+13 pts
Add Organization schema +6 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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