ancestry.co.uk 69 C
🛡️ SEO 47 🤖 GEO 75 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 100

ancestry.co.uk — Global SEODiff Score 69/100

ancestry.co.uk
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ancestry.co.uk achieves a 67/100 on the AI-Crawler Reality Index, reflecting above-average readiness for AI-driven discovery. In the infrastructure sector, ancestry.co.uk outperforms the average (58), 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. A 9.0× bloat ratio is typical for sites in this tech tier — not wasteful, but streamlining could further boost extractability. Zero schema blocks puts this site at a disadvantage in knowledge graph and AI-answer pipelines that rely on explicit structured data. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

69
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (47) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)47 × 0.25 = 11.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)75 × 0.40 = 30.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)100 × 0.15 = 15.0
Weighted sum = 11.8 + 30.0 + 11.8 + 15.0
Global SEODiff Score = 69 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
97
Rendering
avg 93
33
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
65
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.7%
Rank #6964
+41 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 41%
Score 67/100

ancestry.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 ancestry.co.uk ranks here

Tech stackAdobe Experience Manager
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat9.0×

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

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
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Traditional SEO

47/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

59 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

154 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 2
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 11
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en-GB
  • ✓ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✗ og:title
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✗ 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

75/100 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 →
ancestry.co.uk
47
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

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 10%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type Hybrid

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 33/100 — Low
Structured Elements 37 elements (37 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1136
Raw Density3.3%
💡Low structure score (33/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 37 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

45
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability45/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (60/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

11%
🗑️ 89%
Useful Content (45.6 KB)Bloat (366.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.0× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual ContextNo images detected
Image Alt Coverage0 / 0 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: 89.0% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 11665 / Noise: 93901 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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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.
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AI Answer Preview

NEW

See how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of ancestry.co.uk 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
Ancestry provides an online family history resource and DNA testing services to help users build family trees, discover ancestors, and share genealogical discoveries.
Target Audience
Genealogists, family history enthusiasts, individuals interested in DNA ancestry research, families seeking to connect with relatives.
Pricing Model
Subscription-based with tiered pricing. Free access to basic features; paid subscriptions (Ancestry Plus, AncestryDNA) with varying levels of access to content and features, ranging from $19.99/month to $19.99/year.
🔗 Integration Partners
AncestryDNANewspapers.comFind a GraveFold3ArchivesWeRemember
🏆 Competitive Moat
Extensive historical records database combined with AI-powered DNA matching and family tree building tools, creating a significant barrier to entry for competitors.
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Integration directory pagesTemplate comparison pages
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Potential for unexpected and emotionally challenging discoveries
• Need for parental/guardian consent for minors using DNA services
• Restrictions on reselling DNA test kits
• Data privacy and security concerns regarding DNA data storage and usage
Model: mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-28 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score65/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time543 ms
Raw HTML Size412.4 KB
Visible Text Size45.6 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

543 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

1337
DOM nodes
412 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate,max-age=0
  • ✓ CDN cache status → HIT
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 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

100/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.ancestry.co.uk/smp/fam-facts/sitemaps/index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

40
internal links
9
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-GB
  • ✓ 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 182 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
47
Single-page score
+8
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
56
Avg across 182 pages · Range 47–74
Topical Cohesion
6%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
106728
Avg Bloat
122.1×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://ancestry.co.uk/terms
Terms and Conditions - Ancestry.com
pricing 74 5.5× 7679 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/trust
Trust Surname Meaning & Trust Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 126.0× 548 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/southers
Southers Surname Meaning & Southers Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 131.1× 525 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/jelbert
Jelbert Surname Meaning & Jelbert Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 100.3× 682 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/hanslip
Hanslip Surname Meaning & Hanslip Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 111.9× 612 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/dulmage
Dulmage Surname Meaning & Dulmage Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 116.5× 588 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/tugman
Tugman Surname Meaning & Tugman Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 130.3× 524 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/strelecki
Strelecki Surname Meaning & Strelecki Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 120.2× 554 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/debardelaben
Debardelaben Surname Meaning & Debardelaben Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 118.4× 565 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/liford
Liford Surname Meaning & Liford Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 128.6× 522 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/dooris
Dooris Surname Meaning & Dooris Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 128.2× 525 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/athow
Athow Surname Meaning & Athow Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 116.4× 577 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/steeby
Steeby Surname Meaning & Steeby Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 124.9× 535 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/gorrell
Gorrell Surname Meaning & Gorrell Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 113.1× 632 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/pillot
Pillot Surname Meaning & Pillot Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 112.5× 606 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/mcfadden
Mcfadden Surname Meaning & Mcfadden Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 119.7× 618 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/herdman
Herdman Surname Meaning & Herdman Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 118.8× 614 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/websell
Websell Surname Meaning & Websell Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 120.9× 551 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/tondre
Tondre Surname Meaning & Tondre Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 118.3× 569 💰 Pricing
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/last-name-meaning/kostal
Kostal Surname Meaning & Kostal Family History at Ancestry.co.uk®
pricing 57 113.7× 595 💰 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
/last-name-meaning/ 178 56 1% 124.6× Bot Blocked
/terms/ 1 74 0% 5.5× High JS Bloat
/careers/ 1 56 0% 34.4× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 1 49 0% 4.8× Thin Content
/contact/ 1 49 0% 4.8× Thin Content
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to ancestry.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://ancestry.co.uk",
  "logo": "https://cmsasset.ancestrycdn.com/etc.clientlibs/ancestry/clientlibs/clientlib-base/resources/images/favicons/favicon-32x32.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": "Co",
  "url": "https://ancestry.co.uk",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://ancestry.co.uk/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 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 ancestry.co.uk:

Current Score
67
Projected Score
83
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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