thestage.co.uk 54 D
🛡️ SEO 38 🤖 GEO 61 ⚡ Perf 39 🏗️ Arch 82

thestage.co.uk — Global SEODiff Score 54/100

thestage.co.uk
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At 62/100, thestage.co.uk falls in the moderate bracket of AI-Readiness, suggesting its content is partially accessible to AI systems but not fully optimized. In the healthcare sector, thestage.co.uk outperforms the average (57), suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The low ghost ratio (10%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. Heavy markup overhead (15.0× bloat) forces AI systems to wade through excess code before finding useful information. Zero schema blocks puts this site at a disadvantage in knowledge graph and AI-answer pipelines that rely on explicit structured data. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

54
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (38) has the most room for improvement.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 19 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 20
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)38 × 0.25 = 9.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)61 × 0.40 = 24.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)39 × 0.20 = 7.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)82 × 0.15 = 12.3
Weighted sum = 9.5 + 24.4 + 7.8 + 12.3
Global SEODiff Score = 54 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
97
Rendering
avg 93
13
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 8%
Rank #79960
+42 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 49%
Score 62/100

thestage.co.uk 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 thestage.co.uk ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industryhealthcare
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat15.0×

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).
  • 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

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🛡️

Traditional SEO

38/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

67 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

164 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 181
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — The Stage | UK Theatre News, Reviews, Interviews & Jobs
  • ✓ og:description — Get the latest UK theatre news, reviews, interviews, and industry insights. Only from world’s longest-running publication for theatre professionals – The Stage.
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✓ 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

61/100 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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Your ACRI Score
86
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. adelaideaccountant.com has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses Express. 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 10%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type Hybrid

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 13/100 — Poor
Structured Elements 13 elements (13 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words2522
Raw Density0.5%
💡Low structure score (13/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 13 list items, 0 table rows, 0 table headers. Convert features into <ul> lists and data into <table> elements to help AI models extract structured information.

🏷️ 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

35
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability35/100 — AI models can barely extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

6%
🗑️ 94%
Useful Content (18.2 KB)Bloat (254.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio15.0× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context55% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage83 / 150 images have alt text

TDM Rights

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

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 93.3% · SNR: 0.07 · Signal: 4647 / Noise: 65019 tokens

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🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
ServerApache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu)
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1237 ms
Raw HTML Size272.1 KB
Visible Text Size18.2 KB

Performance & Speed

39/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1237 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2678
DOM nodes
272 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
  • ✗ 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

82/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.thestage.co.uk/SiteMap_TheStage_index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

457
internal links
15
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 55 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
36
Single-page score
+10
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
47
Avg across 55 pages · Range 0–67
Topical Cohesion
28%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
47310
Avg Bloat
25.7×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/european-capitals-of-culture-coping-with-the-covid-19-crisis
How Rijeka, one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture, is coping with the Covid-19 crisis
pricing 67 11.4× 2886 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/the-stage-100-2026-intro
The Stage 100 2026
pricing 64 15.5× 1983 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/druid-theatre-in-galway-european-city-of-culture-2020-we-have-a-plan-b
Druid Theatre in Galway, European City of Culture 2020: ‘We have a plan B’
pricing 64 16.6× 1859 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/alan-lane-the-skills-we-are-using-are-the-same-ones-we-use-to-make-shows
Arts Council England supplement – Alan Lane, Slung Low
product 64 14.2× 2340
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/jamie-muscato-i-was-embarrassed-of-singing-for-a-long-time
Jamie Muscato: ‘I was embarrassed of singing for a long time’
product 59 21.4× 1349
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/future-proof-how-is-opera-in-the-uk-innovating-to-reach-new-audiences
Future proof: How is opera in the UK innovating to reach new audiences?
product 59 22.7× 1305
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/top-50-shows-of-2025-london
Top 50 shows of 2025: London
product 59 21.3× 1353
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/in-vogue-meet-the-creatives-straddling-the-worlds-of-fashion-and-theatre
Meet the creatives who straddle both fashion and theatre
product 59 22.4× 1268
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/grappling-with-theatre-how-wrestling-is-slamming-its-way-on-to-our-stages
How wrestling is slamming its way on to theatre stages
product 59 21.4× 1351
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/new-to-the-stage-musical-theatre-writers-jonathan-oneill-and-isaac-savage
New to The Stage: MT writers Jonathan O’Neill and Isaac Savage
product 59 21.6× 1328
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/changing-ends-what-these-producers-learned-from-swapping-the-west-end-for-broadway
Swapping the West End for Broadway – what these producers learned
pricing 59 21.8× 1312 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/legalaliens-lara-parmiani-we-want-to-get-a-different-perspective-on-migration
Legal Aliens’ Lara Parmiani: ‘We want a different perspective on migration’
product 59 21.8× 1379
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/new-to-the-stage-actor-hannah-saxby
Shining a spotlight on emerging actor Hannah Saxby
product 59 21.6× 1319
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/whats-in-store-for-2026-theatre-leaders-share-their-forecasts
What’s in store for 2026? Theatre leaders share their forecasts
product 59 22.5× 1252
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/the-stages-top-50-shows-of-2025
The Stage’s Top 50 shows of 2025
product 59 21.7× 1368
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/a-day-in-the-life-series-by-lyn-gardner
A day in the life series... by Lyn Gardner
pricing 59 22.1× 1295 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/the-stage-awards-2026-shortlist-producer-of-the-year
The Stage Awards 2026 shortlist: Producer of the Year
product 59 22.0× 1295
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/patricia-davenport-im-a-doer-and-a-problem-solver-you-need-to-be-like-that-as-a-stage-manager
Patricia Davenport on her career as a stage manager
pricing 59 22.1× 1301 💰 Pricing
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/the-stage-100-2025-london-theatres
The Stage 100 2025: London theatres
product 59 22.1× 1290
https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/top-50-shows-of-2025-opera
Top 50 shows of 2025: Opera
product 59 21.7× 1340
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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
/features/ 46 55 0% 29.6× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 46 0% 51.7× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 55 pages
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thestagemediacompany.teamtailor.com ×47
lovearts.com ×47
getintotheatre.org ×47
lovetheatre.com ×47
youtube.com ×47
britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ×47
twitter.com ×47
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🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to thestage.co.uk. 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": "Co",
  "url": "https://thestage.co.uk",
  "logo": "https://d3s3zh7icgjwgd.cloudfront.net/AcuCustom/Sitename/Icon/Favorite/favicon-32x32.png?cdn=519",
  "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": "Co",
  "url": "https://thestage.co.uk",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://thestage.co.uk/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 6% 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 Co?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Co does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Co work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Co."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for thestage.co.uk:

Current Score
62
Projected Score
80
Improvement
+18 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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