sumup.com 66 C
🛡️ SEO 67 🤖 GEO 65 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 73

sumup.com — Global SEODiff Score 66/100

sumup.com
📊

Among all indexed domains, sumup.com ranks in the top echelon with an ACRI of 86, demonstrating that its content is highly visible to AI systems. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 57), sumup.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Content is delivered server-side, meaning bots and AI agents can parse the full page without executing JavaScript. A 29.4× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. Structured data coverage is solid at 2 blocks, covering core entities — expanding to include FAQ or Breadcrumb schemas could strengthen the profile further. 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 Performance (59) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (29×) → +5–10 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 17, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Feb 21 Mar 17
🔔 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)67 × 0.25 = 16.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)65 × 0.40 = 26.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)73 × 0.15 = 10.9
Weighted sum = 16.8 + 26.0 + 11.8 + 10.9
Global SEODiff Score = 66 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
60
Structure
avg 35
84
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.7%
Rank #7463
Aligned
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 1%
Score 86/100

sumup.com has balanced Google and AI visibility — both rank roughly in the same tier. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why sumup.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage2 blocks
Token bloat29.4×

Fastest improvements

  • 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

67/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

55 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

157 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 11
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — SumUp: Card Readers and POS Systems | Payment Solutions
  • ✓ og:description — Millions of small businesses use SumUp to run their business with our affordable payment solutions and easy to use point-of-sale solutions. Get a demo today.
  • ✓ 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

65/100 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
💡
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 →
sumup.com
57
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.

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 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 60/100 — Good
Structured Elements 82 elements (82 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words766
Raw Density10.7%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ✅ Present
Total Schema Blocks2 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

3/7 schema types detected
✅ Organization
✅ Product/Service
❌ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
❌ WebSite
💡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

67
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability67/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (75/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

3%
🗑️ 97%
Useful Content (12.2 KB)Bloat (346.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio29.4× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context18% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage11 / 61 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 358.9 KB, but only 12.2 KB is text. 3% useful / 97% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (29.4×) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.
💡Only 18% 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: 96.6% · SNR: 0.04 · Signal: 3126 / Noise: 88753 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

🌐
This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
🤖

AI Answer Preview

NEW

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

Simulating AI extraction…
🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of sumup.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.

Core Offering
SumUp provides affordable and easy-to-use payment solutions for small businesses globally.
Target Audience
Street food vendors, salon owners, sales assistants, small business owners
Pricing Model
No contracts, no hidden fees, transparent pricing for payment solutions.
🛡️ Compliance Standards
PCI-DSSEMV
🏆 Competitive Moat
Secure payment processing and regulatory compliance for small businesses.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time782 ms
Raw HTML Size358.9 KB
Visible Text Size12.2 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

782 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1296
DOM nodes
359 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public
  • ✓ CDN cache status → DYNAMIC
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 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

73/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

104
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-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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

Your site scores 57/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for sumup.com
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 1010 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
57
Single-page score
-6
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
51
Avg across 1010 pages · Range 0–66
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
1151223
Avg Bloat
182.0×
RAG Fractures [?]
971
⚠️
971 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 971 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.sumup.com/en-gb/running-business/customers/how-to-get-clients/
How To Get Clients: 12 Proven Strategies for Any Business
pricing 66 19.9× 6087 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/de-de/kartenterminals/
Vergleichen Sie die SumUp Kartenterminals und finden Sie das passende Terminal für Ihr Geschäft
pricing 63 95.8× 1228 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/tipo-de-sociedad-de-una-empresa/
Cómo elegir el tipo de sociedad de una empresa - SumUP
pricing 61 26.0× 1723 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/guia-operacion-renta/
Operación Renta 2025: guía completa
pricing 61 22.8× 2088 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/nombres-exitosos-para-negocios/
Todo sobre los nombres exitosos para negocios - SumUp
pricing 61 25.0× 1805 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/guia-completa-para-ordenar-las-finanzas/
Guía completa para ordenar las finanzas de tu negocio
pricing 61 25.7× 1585 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/como-generar-ingresos-extras/
Descubre cómo generar ingresos extras en Chile - SumUp
pricing 61 27.8× 1538 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/guia-de-impuestos-para-las-pymes/
Obligaciones tributaria de una pyme
pricing 61 27.2× 1678 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/voucher-valido-como-boleta/
¿Cómo funciona el voucher de pago con tarjeta?
pricing 61 32.4× 1449 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/crear-una-empresa-en-chile/
¿Cómo crear una empresa en Chile?
pricing 61 20.7× 2364 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/tipos-de-empresas-en-chile/
Tipos de empresas en Chile: Estrategias y ejemplos - SumUp
pricing 61 25.2× 1750 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/que-es-la-sociedad-de-responsabilidad-limitada/
¿Qué es la sociedad de responsabilidad limitada? - SumUp
pricing 61 24.6× 1869 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/que-es-un-modelo-de-negocio/
¿Qué es un modelo de negocio? Guía completa - SumUp
pricing 61 23.4× 1834 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/ideas-de-emprendimiento/
La guía de ideas de emprendimiento definitiva - SumUp
pricing 61 24.9× 1783 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/tipos-de-modelos-de-negocios/
¿Qué tipos de modelos de negocios hay en Chile? - SumUp
pricing 61 25.4× 1700 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/como-crear-una-empresa/
Cómo crear una empresa en Chile: Guía en 10 pasos - SumUp
pricing 61 26.5× 1680 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/inspirate/historia-le-lutin/
Volver a lo Simple: conoce a la panadería Le Lutin
pricing 61 46.5× 921 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/inspirate/volver-a-lo-simple/
Serie micro-documental SumUp: Volver a lo Simple
pricing 61 85.0× 511 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/inspirate/sum-up-mes-de-la-mujer-chile/
Día Internacional de la mujer. Emprendedoras alrededor del mundo nos entregan sus tips
pricing 61 25.3× 1741 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.sumup.com/es-cl/blog/tips-para-tu-negocio/guia-completa-de-redes-sociales/
Guía completa de redes sociales para tu negocio: Facebook, Instagram y TikTok
pricing 61 25.4× 1606 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
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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
/da-dk/ 130 58 1% 68.0× Bot Blocked
/de-de/ 91 59 1% 68.7× Bot Blocked
/de-ch/ 76 58 1% 81.1× Bot Blocked
/es-cl/ 72 59 1% 42.4× Bot Blocked
/de-at/ 58 58 1% 69.4× Bot Blocked
/en-gb/ 27 59 1% 43.3× Bot Blocked
/bg-bg/ 15 58 1% 94.0× Bot Blocked
/cs-cz/ 14 58 1% 92.9× Bot Blocked
/en-ie/ 6 58 1% 87.6× Bot Blocked
/en-mt/ 3 58 1% 86.2× Bot Blocked
/careers/ 2 58 1% 71.0× Bot Blocked
/en-us/ 1 58 1% 17.8× Bot Blocked
/es-es/ 1 61 1% 21.6× Bot Blocked
/pricing/ 1 58 1% 57.2× Bot Blocked
/el-cy/ 1 58 1% 77.1× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 1010 pages
help.sumup.com ×997
youtube.com ×978
instagram.com ×978
facebook.com ×978
twitter.com ×978
linkedin.com ×978
status.sumup.com ×961
developer.sumup.com ×872
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite sumup.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.

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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

B 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.

58
Homepage ACRI
47
Inner Avg ACRI
+11
ACRI Delta
80%
Homepage Ghost
76%
Inner Avg Ghost
22
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
39 90% pricing https://www.sumup.com/it-it/fatture/dizionario/api/
57 90% pricing https://www.sumup.com/en-gb/business-account/pricing/
50 80% pricing https://www.sumup.com/en-us/loyalty-program/pricing/
🛡️

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

16 DOMAINS

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

150
Total Links
16
Unique Domains
10.0
Avg/Page
11%
Diversity
facebook.com help.sumup.com twitter.com linkedin.com instagram.com youtube.com developer.sumup.com status.sumup.com me.sumup.com store.sumup.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 47.5

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to sumup.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

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": "Sumup",
  "url": "https://sumup.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://sumup.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 3% 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 Sumup?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Sumup does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Sumup work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Sumup."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for sumup.com:

Current Score
86
Projected Score
98
Improvement
+12 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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