sportingnews.com struggles with AI visibility, recording a critical ACRI of 15/100 — AI crawlers face significant hurdles extracting its content. In the infrastructure sector, sportingnews.com underperforms relative to the average (57), indicating room for competitive improvement. Its server-rendered architecture ensures AI crawlers receive complete HTML on first request, a key advantage for extractability. 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 site includes 2 schema blocks, providing adequate structured data for basic entity recognition. Comprehensive AI crawler restrictions limit this domain's presence in the growing AI search ecosystem.
🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
sportingnews.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 sportingnews.com ranks here
Fastest improvements
- Allow GPTBot in robots.txt so AI crawlers can access your pages (see Crawl Access).
- Allow ClaudeBot (many assistants rely on it) — blocking it often correlates with “AI invisibility.”
- Create an
llms.txtfile 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 →
Traditional SEO
46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence📝 Title Tag
Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.
📋 Meta Description
Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.
🔤 Heading Hierarchy
- ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
- ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
- ✗ <h2> not before <h1>
🔍 Indexability
- ✓ Canonical tag present →
https://www.sportingnews.com/ca - ✓ No noindex directive
- ✓ Meta viewport set
- ✓ HTML lang attribute →
en-ca - ✅ Hreflang tags
- ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt
🌐 Social / OpenGraph
- ✓ og:title — Sporting News Canada - NHL | NFL | NBA | MLB | Soccer | Golf
- ✓ og:description — The latest news, videos, scores and more on the biggest sports, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, NASCAR and more with Sporting News Canada
- ✓ 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
84/100 40 % of Global Score 🟢 High ConfidenceThis pillar aggregates citation share, hallucination risk, bot access, schema health, and content extractability. The individual diagnostic sections below contribute to this score.
Is AI lying about your brand? This panel measures how likely LLMs are to hallucinate facts when extracting information from your page.
🤖 Bot Access Matrix
Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.📊 Structure & Information Density Docs
🏷️ Schema Health Docs
Schema Coverage Map
📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs
Token Bloat Research
Multimodal Readiness
TDM Rights
🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research
🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation
See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
AI Answer Preview
NEWSee how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.
The LLM Interpretation
AI-VERIFIEDSEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of sportingnews.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.
🔧 Tech Stack
Performance & Speed
34/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence⏱️ Time to First Byte
Google considers <200 ms "good". AI crawlers may have even shorter timeouts.
📦 Page Weight
DOM nodes
HTML payload
🗄️ Cache & CDN
- ✓ Cache-Control header →
public, max-age=60 - ✓ CDN cache status →
HIT - ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare
🔬 Tracker Tax
tracker scripts
third-party domains
token overhead
📐 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
93/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence🗺️ Sitemap & Robots
- ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt →
https://www.sportingnews.com/vn/sitemap.xml - ✓ Googlebot allowed
- ✗ GPTBot allowed
- ✗ ClaudeBot allowed
🔗 Linking
internal links
external links
🔒 Security & Trust
- ✓ HSTS header (Strict-Transport-Security)
- ✗ Content-Security-Policy header
- ✓ HTTP status 200 OK (got 200)
♿ Accessibility Signals
- ✓ HTML lang attribute → en-ca
- ✓ 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 67/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.
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💡 Paste in your site footer, GitHub README, or email signature. Badge updates automatically as your score changes.
� Deep Crawl Analysis 226 pages · Deep-10
Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 5 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.
| Page | Type | ACRI | Token Bloat | Words | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | 80 | 11.5× | 2332 | 💰 Pricing | |
| about | 77 | 19.5× | 1254 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 15.4× | 1656 | 💰 Pricing | |
| pricing | 77 | 18.5× | 2681 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 19.9× | 1223 | ✓ | |
| other | 77 | 17.8× | 1464 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 19.6× | 1330 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 14.8× | 1656 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 16.6× | 1488 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 19.5× | 1249 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 17.6× | 1378 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 17.4× | 1453 | ✓ | |
| other | 77 | 19.8× | 1289 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 15.4× | 1668 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 17.2× | 1463 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 77 | 17.1× | 1469 | 💰 Pricing | |
| other | 77 | 17.6× | 1424 | ✓ | |
| pricing | 72 | 23.5× | 1269 | 💰 Pricing | |
| pricing | 72 | 22.1× | 1191 | ⚠️ RAG Fracture | |
| other | 72 | 24.2× | 908 | ✓ |
| Path | Pages | Avg ACRI | Ghost % | Bloat | Top Issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /vn/ | 210 | 69 | 0% | 35.5× | High JS Bloat |
| /terms/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /case-studies/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /features/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /products/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /help/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /pricing/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /about/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /solutions/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /integrations/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /blog/ | 1 | 64 | 0% | 121.8× | High JS Bloat |
| /api/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /faq/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /careers/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
| /privacy/ | 1 | 0 | 0% | 0.0× | Low AI Readiness |
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🔌 API Access
Pull this data programmatically. All sub-page metrics are available via our public API.
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice
How often would an AI cite sportingnews.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…
Remediation Patches
COPY-PASTEAuto-generated code fixes tailored to sportingnews.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →
User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Allow: /
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "FAQPage",
"mainEntity": [
{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "What is Sportingnews?",
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "Add your answer here — describe what Sportingnews does in 1-2 sentences."
}
},
{
"@type": "Question",
"name": "How does Sportingnews work?",
"acceptedAnswer": {
"@type": "Answer",
"text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Sportingnews."
}
}
]
}
</script>
Projected Impact
ROI EST.If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for sportingnews.com:
*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.
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