afternic.com 60 C
🛡️ SEO 50 🤖 GEO 59 ⚡ Perf 62 🏗️ Arch 78

afternic.com — Global SEODiff Score 60/100

afternic.com
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The AI-Readiness profile for afternic.com is strong: an ACRI of 74/100 places it ahead of 79% of domains in the index. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places afternic.com above the industry average of 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. The bloated 50.0× token ratio highlights an urgent need to clean up non-content markup, scripts, and navigation clutter. 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.

60
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (50) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (56×) → +5–10 pts
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)50 × 0.25 = 12.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)59 × 0.40 = 23.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)62 × 0.20 = 12.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)78 × 0.15 = 11.7
Weighted sum = 12.5 + 23.6 + 12.4 + 11.7
Global SEODiff Score = 60 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
63
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 10
70
Tech Stack
avg 64
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.1%
Rank #395
+21 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 21%
Score 74/100

afternic.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 afternic.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat50×+

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

50/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

52 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

155 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.afternic.com/static/homepage
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en-US
  • ✗ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Sell, Buy and Park Domains with Afternic
  • ✓ og:description — Afternic is a one-stop site to buy, sell and park domains. See for your self why Afternic is the world's premiere domain marketplace and exchange reseller.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ 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.

🤖

AI Readiness / GEO

59/100 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 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 →
afternic.com
45
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 63/100 — Good
Structured Elements 44 elements (44 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words368
Raw Density12.0%

🏷️ 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

45
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability45/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (45/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

1%
🗑️ 99%
Useful Content (2.2 KB)Bloat (122.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio50×+ — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context88% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage15 / 17 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 125.0 KB, but only 2.2 KB is text. 1% useful / 99% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (50×+) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 98.2% · SNR: 0.02 · Signal: 566 / Noise: 31430 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

A local LLM (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of afternic.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
Instant domain transfers to increase domain sales speed and revenue
Target Audience
Domain sellers, domain resellers, prospective buyers
Pricing Model
Commission-based, no explicit pricing
🏆 Competitive Moat
Unique exposure to 85 million searches, faster closing process
📊 Content Depth
5/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
directory listingscomparison pages
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No explicit pricing details
• Repetitive text
Model: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-27 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Serverenvoy
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1679 ms
Raw HTML Size125.0 KB
Visible Text Size2.2 KB

Performance & Speed

62/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1679 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

486
DOM nodes
125 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → s-maxage=15, stale-while-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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

78/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

34
internal links
4
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 45/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for afternic.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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💡 Paste in your site footer, GitHub README, or email signature. Badge updates automatically as your score changes.

� Deep Crawl Analysis 5 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
45
Single-page score
0
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
45
Avg across 5 pages · Range 30–63
Topical Cohesion
17%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
1889
Avg Bloat
75.6×
RAG Fractures
5
Ext. Citations
7
⚠️
5 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 5 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.afternic.com/fast-transfer
Fast Transfer - Get Paid Faster with Instant Domain Transfers - Afternic
pricing 63 41.1× 606 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.afternic.com/sell-domains
Sell Domains on the Premiere Domain Marketplace - Afternic
pricing 53 49.8× 576 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.afternic.com/domain-parking
Domain Parking - Monetize Your Domain with Afternic
pricing 40 87.1× 251 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.afternic.com/afternic-domain-marketplace
About Afternic - The World's Premier Domain Marketplace
pricing 40 84.3× 256 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.afternic.com/domain-broker
Let Afternic's Domain Brokers Negotiate for You - Afternic
pricing 30 115.5× 200 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
🔗
Outbound External Citations
7 unique external domains cited across 5 pages
twitter.com ×5
domaining.com ×5
blog.afternic.com ×5
sso.afternic.com ×5
facebook.com ×5
help.afternic.com ×5
godaddy.com ×1
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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

A 5 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.

30
Homepage ACRI
49
Inner Avg ACRI
-19
ACRI Delta
80%
Homepage Ghost
75%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score
Worst Inner Pages
40 80% pricing https://www.afternic.com/afternic-domain-marketplace
40 80% pricing https://www.afternic.com/domain-parking
63 80% pricing https://www.afternic.com/fast-transfer
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

F 0/100

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

7 DOMAINS

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

31
Total Links
7
Unique Domains
6.2
Avg/Page
23%
Diversity
twitter.com domaining.com blog.afternic.com help.afternic.com sso.afternic.com facebook.com godaddy.com
🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to afternic.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": "Afternic",
  "url": "https://afternic.com",
  "logo": "https://img1.wsimg.com/cdnassets/transform/bfa8cd58-2650-4746-bf80-4babd8cd4e55/android-chrome-192x192",
  "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": "Afternic",
  "url": "https://afternic.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://afternic.com/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 1% 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 Afternic?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Afternic does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Afternic work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Afternic."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

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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🧭 Self-Diffing (Private Layer)

For owned domains, combine this world snapshot with private drift + regression history.
Template Drift
Track in My Site
Drift → Traffic Impact
In development coming soon
Regression Incidents
Track in My Site
Internal Linking
Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
Content Quality
Thin/duplicate tracking

🕒 History

Score over timeAvailable in My Site history
Drift eventsTemplate timeline + incidents
Drift → Revenue AttributionComing soon
Schema/rendering/extractability changesTracked per scan in project history