union.edu 58 D
🛡️ SEO 17 🤖 GEO 71 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 93

union.edu — Global SEODiff Score 58/100

union.edu
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At 74/100, the ACRI for union.edu indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. In the education sector, union.edu outperforms the average (57), 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 11.6× bloat ratio is typical for sites in this tech tier — not wasteful, but streamlining could further boost extractability. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

58
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (17) has the most room for improvement.
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🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)17 × 0.25 = 4.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)71 × 0.40 = 28.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)93 × 0.15 = 13.9
Weighted sum = 4.2 + 28.4 + 11.8 + 13.9
Global SEODiff Score = 58 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
58
Structure
avg 35
2
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 4%
Rank #43118
+18 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 22%
Score 74/100

union.edu 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 union.edu ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat11.6×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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Traditional SEO

17/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

13 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

179 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 15
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.union.edu/
  • ✓ 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 — Union College
  • ✓ og:description — More than a community, we're a union. Of the liberal arts and engineering. Of people with bright minds and courageous hearts. Of who you are and who you will become. We Are Union.
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✗ twitter:card
📐 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

71/100 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. melbourneschool.com has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses Custom / Proprietary. 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 58/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 70 elements (70 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words682
Raw Density10.3%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

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

52
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability52/100 — 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

8%
🗑️ 92%
Useful Content (14.4 KB)Bloat (153.4 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio11.6× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage10 / 10 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: 91.4% · SNR: 0.09 · Signal: 3688 / Noise: 39281 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of union.edu 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
Union College utilizes data-driven strategies to enhance student recruitment and retention, focusing on maximizing revenue while maintaining enrollment targets through
Target Audience
College administrators, admissions officers, fundraising professionals, and marketing teams at similar private colleges and universities.
Pricing Model
Not explicitly stated; likely a subscription-based model with tiered pricing based on features and usage.
🔗 Integration Partners
Workday
🏆 Competitive Moat
Data-driven enrollment strategy and predictive analytics for student recruitment and financial aid optimization, combined with a robust alumni engagement program.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Template comparison pagesIntegration directory pages
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Controlling the ‘discount rate’ (financial aid),
• Attracting qualified students with limited need for financial aid
• Improving admissions yield rates
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-02

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time532 ms
Raw HTML Size167.8 KB
Visible Text Size14.4 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

532 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

943
DOM nodes
168 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=180, 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

93/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.union.edu/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

121
internal links
13
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 85 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
55
Single-page score
-4
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
52
Avg across 85 pages · Range 0–72
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
41008
Avg Bloat
89.9×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.union.edu/about/leadership/trustees/board-report/board-report-february-24
Board Chair's Report February 2024 | Union College
pricing 72 14.6× 2040 💰 Pricing
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/eating-disorders-helping-friend
Eating Disorders: Helping a Friend | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 29.1× 1210
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/alcoholism-and-alcohol-abuse
Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 24.6× 1445
https://www.union.edu/admissions/school-counselors/resources/how-to-prepare
How to prepare for the first year | Admissions | Union College
blog 67 29.9× 1022
https://www.union.edu/admissions/school-counselors/resources/test-optional
Test Scores Optional | Admissions | Union College
blog 67 33.5× 910
https://www.union.edu/admissions/school-counselors/resources/sports-at-union
Sports at a liberal arts college | Admissions | Union College
blog 67 32.0× 955
https://www.union.edu/admissions/school-counselors/resources/fafsa-fear
Helping students and families tackle financial aid | Admissions | Union College
pricing 67 32.4× 962 💰 Pricing
https://www.union.edu/admissions/school-counselors/resources/helping-students-prioritize
Helping students prioritize | Admissions | Union College
blog 67 25.2× 1226
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/anxiety-disorders
Anxiety Disorders | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 37.5× 932
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/local-counselors
Local Counselors & Groups (* denotes counselors of color) | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 29.0× 1222
https://www.union.edu/about/area/dining-out
Dining out | Union College
pricing 67 24.0× 1415 💰 Pricing
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/adjusting-college
Adjusting to College | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 24.8× 1438
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/anger-management
Anger Management | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 28.3× 1252
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/bipolar-disorder
Bipolar Disorder | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 41.3× 845
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/assertiveness
Assertiveness | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 38.3× 911
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/depression
Depression | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 38.8× 901
https://www.union.edu/counseling-center/resources/students/handouts/grief-and-loss
Grief and Loss | Counseling Center | Union College
blog 67 27.6× 1276
https://www.union.edu/minerva-programs/about/student-faqs
Student FAQs | Minerva Programs | Union College
about 64 50.3× 612
https://www.union.edu/about/area/accommodations
Where to stay | Union College
about 64 55.3× 507
https://www.union.edu/about/area/maps-directions
Maps & Directions | Union College
about 64 55.6× 529
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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
/about/ 31 54 0% 129.1× High JS Bloat
/counseling-center/ 29 60 0% 81.4× High JS Bloat
/admissions/ 8 65 0% 45.4× High JS Bloat
/minerva-programs/ 4 56 0% 89.0× High JS Bloat
/feigenbaum/ 1 54 0% 109.7× High JS Bloat
/case-studies/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/products/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/docs/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/blog/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/contact/ 1 22 1% 151.6× Bot Blocked
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/health-services/ 1 44 0% 165.1× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/features/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to union.edu. 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": "Union",
  "url": "https://union.edu",
  "logo": "https://union.edu/themes/custom/union_theme/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": "Union",
  "url": "https://union.edu",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://union.edu/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 8% 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 Union?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Union does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Union work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Union."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for union.edu:

Current Score
74
Projected Score
92
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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