usu.edu 63 C
🛡️ SEO 35 🤖 GEO 83 ⚡ Perf 53 🏗️ Arch 70

usu.edu — Global SEODiff Score 63/100

usu.edu
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With a solid 74/100 ACRI, usu.edu is well-positioned for AI search — better than 78% of sites in the Radar. In the education sector, usu.edu outperforms the average (57), suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Server-side rendering keeps the ghost ratio near zero, giving AI systems direct access to all visible content. Token bloat registers at 6.6× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

63
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (35) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Mar 21, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 30 snapshots
Feb 24 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
🔄 Mar 21 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 20 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 20 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
🔄 Mar 19 Content change detected
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)35 × 0.25 = 8.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)83 × 0.40 = 33.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)53 × 0.20 = 10.6
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)70 × 0.15 = 10.5
Weighted sum = 8.8 + 33.2 + 10.6 + 10.5
Global SEODiff Score = 63 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
71
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.7%
Rank #7284
+22 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 22%
Score 74/100

usu.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 usu.edu ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat6.6×

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

We check what AI crawlers miss when they skip JavaScript execution.

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

35/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

32 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

326 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 20
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✗ Canonical tag present
  • ✓ 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 — Welcome To Utah State University
  • ✓ og:description — Founded in 1888, Utah State University is Utah's only land grant institution, serving over 28,000 students in Logan and around the state at Statewide Campuses, as well as at USU Eastern. Known for its robust and cutting edge research, Utah State challenges students to pursue academic opportunities that will change the world.
  • ✗ og:image
  • ✓ 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

83/100 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.

🔗

Citation Alternatives

Research
💡
Insight: In the education sector, melbourneschool.com (ACRI: 86) 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 →
usu.edu
63
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.
📊 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 71/100 — Good
Structured Elements 147 elements (147 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words970
Raw Density15.1%

🏷️ 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

61
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability61/100 — 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

15%
🗑️ 85%
Useful Content (8.7 KB)Bloat (49.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio6.6× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage18 / 18 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: 84.9% · SNR: 0.18 · Signal: 2235 / Noise: 12547 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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

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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 usu.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
Utah State University is a land-grant and space-grant university focused on research and innovation, providing education and resources to students
Target Audience
Students, alumni, prospective students, Utah residents, researchers, and community members.
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Land-grant status, research focus, diverse locations, and commitment to student success and community engagement.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Rankings (U.S. News & World Report, Washington Monthly)Online Bachelor’s Programs (Top 25 in 10 of the past 11 years)Best Bang for the Buck (West)1st Public University in the Nation
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Limited information on specific programs beyond general descriptions.
• Lack of detail regarding research opportunities beyond broad categories.
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-02-28

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Servernginx/1.28.2
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1692 ms
Raw HTML Size57.7 KB
Visible Text Size8.7 KB

Performance & Speed

53/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1692 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1079
DOM nodes
58 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-cache
  • ✗ 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

70/100 15 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

188
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 23 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
63
Single-page score
-18
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
45
Avg across 23 pages · Range 42–82
🔍
Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 63, but internal pages average only 45 — a -18-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
5%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
5052
Avg Bloat
71.7×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://usu.edu/privacy
Privacy Notice | Utah State University
legal 82 3.8× 2651
https://usu.edu/about
Meet Utah State University, Home of the Aggies
pricing 67 14.3× 631 💰 Pricing
https://usu.edu/contact
Contact Utah State University
support 52 21.3× 330
https://usu.edu/pricing
Page Not Found | Utah State University
pricing 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/api
Page Not Found | Utah State University
docs 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/guides
Page Not Found | Utah State University
blog 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/resources
Page Not Found | Utah State University
blog 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/help
Page Not Found | Utah State University
support 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/features
Page Not Found | Utah State University
product 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/solutions
Page Not Found | Utah State University
product 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/products
Page Not Found | Utah State University
product 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/docs
Page Not Found | Utah State University
docs 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/blog
Page Not Found | Utah State University
blog 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/case-studies
Page Not Found | Utah State University
social-proof 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/demo
Page Not Found | Utah State University
conversion 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/get-started
Page Not Found | Utah State University
conversion 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/integrations
Page Not Found | Utah State University
integrations 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/support
Page Not Found | Utah State University
support 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/faq
Page Not Found | Utah State University
support 42 80.5× 72
https://usu.edu/security
Page Not Found | Utah State University
trust 42 80.5× 72
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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/ 1 67 0% 14.3× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 52 0% 21.3× High JS Bloat
/features/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/integrations/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/terms/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/demo/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/privacy/ 1 82 0% 3.8× Healthy
/pricing/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/products/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/trust/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/security/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
/api/ 1 42 0% 80.5× High JS Bloat
🔗
Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 23 pages
instagram.com ×23
twitter.com ×23
youtube.com ×23
it.usu.edu ×23
utahstateaggies.com ×23
apply.studyabroad.usu.edu ×23
rgs.usu.edu ×23
library.usu.edu ×23
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite usu.edu 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.

42
Homepage ACRI
45
Inner Avg ACRI
-3
ACRI Delta
0%
Homepage Ghost
0%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
67 0% pricing https://usu.edu/about
42 0% product https://usu.edu/products
42 0% product https://usu.edu/features
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

C 50/100

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

24 DOMAINS

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

318
Total Links
24
Unique Domains
21.2
Avg/Page
8%
Diversity
linkedin.com canvas.usu.edu catalog.usu.edu statewide.usu.edu rgs.usu.edu twitter.com gradschool.usu.edu directory.usu.edu library.usu.edu jobs.usu.edu
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 18.4

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
74
Projected Score
90
Improvement
+16 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Reduce token bloat +3 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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