wtae.com 44 D
🛡️ SEO 35 🤖 GEO 76 ⚡ Perf 47 🏗️ Arch 99

wtae.com — Global SEODiff Score 44/100

wtae.com
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With only 15/100 on the AI-Readiness Index, wtae.com is at severe risk of being overlooked by AI-powered search and answer engines. In the infrastructure sector, wtae.com underperforms relative to the average (57), indicating room for competitive improvement. The rendering approach is hybrid, with a moderate ghost ratio of 15% — most content is accessible without JS, though some elements are client-rendered. The 8.4× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. A full AI bot restriction means AI-powered search and answer engines cannot currently crawl and index this domain's content.

44
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (35) has the most room for improvement.
🎯 Top Fix: Allow GPTBot + ClaudeBot in robots.txt → lift the score cap
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📈 ACRI Trend 3 snapshots
Mar 5 Mar 21
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)35 × 0.25 = 8.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)76 × 0.40 = 30.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)47 × 0.20 = 9.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)99 × 0.15 = 14.8
Weighted sum = 8.8 + 30.4 + 9.4 + 14.8
⚠️ Fatal multiplier: All major AI bots blocked → ×0.5
Global SEODiff Score = 44 (D)
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Gatekeeper Rule: Score cannot exceed 15. Both GPTBot and ClaudeBot are blocked in robots.txt. No major AI assistant can cite this site. Allow at least one major AI crawler to lift the cap. See Bot Access →
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
20
Bot Access
avg 92
94
Rendering
avg 93
56
Structure
avg 35
2
Schema
avg 9
50
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 3%
Rank #31273
+64 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 67%
Score 15/100

wtae.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 wtae.com ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat8.4×

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.”
  • 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

73 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

163 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 2
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 30
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.wtae.com
  • ✓ 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 — Pittsburgh PA News, Weather and Sports - WTAE-TV Pittsburgh Action News 4
  • ✓ og:description — Stay in the know with the latest Pittsburgh news, weather and sports. Catch all of the day’s top stories and more from the team at WTAE Pittsburgh Action News 4.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✗ 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

76/100 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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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 →
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48
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.
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Hallucination Risk

Research

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🤖 Bot Access Matrix

GPTBot (OpenAI)
Blocked
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Blocked
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡GPTBot is blocked. To appear in ChatGPT citations, add Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.
💡ClaudeBot is blocked. To be cited by Claude, allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt.

👻 Rendering (Ghost Ratio) Docs

Ghost Ratio 15%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type Hybrid

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 56/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 108 elements (108 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1143
Raw Density9.4%

🏷️ 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

53
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
Critical
Blocklist Risk
Extractability53/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskCritical — 4 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

11%
🗑️ 89%
Useful Content (30.1 KB)Bloat (224.1 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio8.4× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context96% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage25 / 26 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: 88.2% · SNR: 0.13 · Signal: 7706 / Noise: 57377 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of wtae.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
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Target Audience
General public, news consumers, local viewers
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
SEMANTIC VOID
📊 Content Depth
1/10
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-01

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Servernginx/1.18.0
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1385 ms
Raw HTML Size254.2 KB
Visible Text Size30.1 KB

Performance & Speed

47/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1385 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1021
DOM nodes
254 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=240, must-revalidate
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 Tracker Tax

1
tracker scripts
1
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
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📐 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

99/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.wtae.com/sitemap_index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✗ GPTBot allowed
  • ✗ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

155
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 43 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
48
Single-page score
-22
Severe hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
26
Avg across 43 pages · Range 0–64
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 48, but internal pages average only 26 — a -22-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
13%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
7369
Avg Bloat
71.2×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.wtae.com/national-news
National Headlines, Breaking News and Live Alerts
pricing 64 80.9× 536 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/homepage-severe pricing 64 51.6× 991 💰 Pricing
https://wtae.com/contact
Contact Us
pricing 54 130.4× 468 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/roadtoireland
Road To Ireland
pricing 54 167.8× 230 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/project-community
Project Community - WTAE-TV
pricing 54 127.5× 314 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers News - WTAE Channel 4
pricing 54 134.5× 309 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/penguins
Pittsburgh Penguins Scores, Schedules and Stats - WTAE Channel 4
pricing 54 116.6× 359 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/high-school-sports
High School Sports
pricing 54 135.0× 306 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/pitt-panthers
University of Pittsburgh Sports - WTAE Channel 4
pricing 54 118.6× 348 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/play-of-the-week
Play of the Week - WTAE-TV Pittsburgh
pricing 54 149.9× 264 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/game-of-the-week
Game of the Week - WTAE-TV Pittsburgh
pricing 54 156.9× 251 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/draft
draft
pricing 54 132.4× 289 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/olympics pricing 54 94.4× 461 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/data-journalism
Data Journalism
pricing 54 119.8× 347 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/consumer
Consumer News
pricing 54 114.6× 336 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/wtae-listens
4 The Record
pricing 54 106.8× 396 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/project-hunger
Project Hunger
pricing 54 115.3× 367 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/4-the-record
4 The Record
pricing 54 106.8× 396 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/breaking-news
Breaking News
pricing 44 443.3× 69 💰 Pricing
https://www.wtae.com/roll-call
Roll Call - WTAE-TV Pittsburgh
pricing 44 197.0× 195 💰 Pricing
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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
/high-school-sports/ 1 54 0% 135.0× High JS Bloat
/pricing/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/gtf-weather/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/project-hunger/ 1 54 0% 115.3× High JS Bloat
/wtae-listens/ 1 54 0% 106.8× High JS Bloat
/nota/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/gtf-investigates/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/gtf-consumer/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/consumer/ 1 54 0% 114.7× High JS Bloat
/quiptown/ 1 44 0% 261.9× High JS Bloat
/integrations/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/about/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/gtf-clarified/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/gtf-politics/ 1 0 0% 0.0× Low AI Readiness
/national-news/ 1 64 0% 80.9× High JS Bloat
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to wtae.com. 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": "Wtae",
  "url": "https://wtae.com",
  "logo": "https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/htv_default_image/wtae/favicon.png?resize=16:16",
  "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": "Wtae",
  "url": "https://wtae.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://wtae.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow GPTBot in robots.txt
High Impact ⏱ 2 min
GPTBot is blocked — your content cannot appear in ChatGPT citations. Add this to your robots.txt:
text
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Medium Impact ⏱ 2 min
ClaudeBot is restricted — Claude may not be able to cite your content. Many AI assistants rely on it.
text
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
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 Wtae?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Wtae does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Wtae work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Wtae."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
15
Projected Score
44
Improvement
+29 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 pts
Allow ClaudeBot +5 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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