aol.com 29 F
🛡️ SEO 39 🤖 GEO 30 ⚡ Perf 62 🏗️ Arch 53

aol.com — Global SEODiff Score 29/100

aol.com
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aol.com struggles with AI visibility, recording a critical ACRI of 15/100 — AI crawlers face significant hurdles extracting its content. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places aol.com below the industry average of 57 —, indicating room for competitive improvement. Server-side rendering keeps the ghost ratio near zero, giving AI systems direct access to all visible content. The bloated 41.1× token ratio highlights an urgent need to clean up non-content markup, scripts, and navigation clutter. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Complete AI crawler restriction cuts this domain off from the growing AI search ecosystem entirely.

29
F — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Critical gaps across the board. Start with AI Readiness (30).
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)39 × 0.25 = 9.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)30 × 0.40 = 12.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)62 × 0.20 = 12.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)53 × 0.15 = 7.9
Weighted sum = 9.8 + 12.0 + 12.4 + 7.9
⚠️ Fatal multiplier: All major AI bots blocked → ×0.5
Global SEODiff Score = 29 (F)
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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
97
Rendering
avg 93
0
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 10
50
Tech Stack
avg 64
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.1%
Rank #418
+64 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 64%
Score 15/100

aol.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 aol.com ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat41.1×

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.”
  • 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

39/100 25 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

📝 Title Tag

20 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

0 chars
Missing

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

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

🔍 Indexability

  • ✗ Canonical tag present
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✗ HTML lang attribute
  • ✗ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

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

30/100 40 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium 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
💡
Insight: In the infrastructure sector, plodopitomnik-sad.ru (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 →
aol.com
13
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. plodopitomnik-sad.ru has schema coverage of 12 blocks and uses Express. 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…

AI Visibility Gap Notice

This domain ranks well in traditional search but shows low AI extractability in our automated analysis. Another domain scored higher in our AI retrieval tests for overlapping queries.

13
aol.com ACRI
vs
90
safely.co.jp ACRI
77-point ACRI gap
safely.co.jp scored higher in AI extraction tests than aol.com
Evidence Score: 81/100 Retrieval MismatchHallucination Risk41x Token Bloat
View Full Analysis → Run Hallucination Check

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

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 0/100 — Poor
Structured Elements 0 elements (0 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words224
Raw Density0.0%
💡Low structure score (0/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 0 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

27
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
Critical
Blocklist Risk
Extractability27/100 — AI models can barely extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (45/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskCritical — 4 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

2%
🗑️ 98%
Useful Content (2.2 KB)Bloat (86.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio41.1× — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context0% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage0 / 4 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 88.9 KB, but only 2.2 KB is text. 2% useful / 98% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (41.1×) risks context-window truncation by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Reduce inline scripts, CSS, hydration payloads, and tracking code.
💡Only 0% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 97.6% · SNR: 0.02 · Signal: 553 / Noise: 22203 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…

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Serverguce
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1605 ms
Raw HTML Size88.9 KB
Visible Text Size2.2 KB

Performance & Speed

62/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1605 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

69
DOM nodes
89 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-cache, no-store, must-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.

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Architecture & Trust

53/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

3
internal links
2
external links
Limited internal links — consider adding contextual cross-links

🔒 Security & Trust

  • ✓ HSTS header (Strict-Transport-Security)
  • ✗ Content-Security-Policy header
  • ✓ HTTP status 200 OK (got 200)

♿ Accessibility Signals

  • ✗ HTML lang attribute
  • ✓ 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 13/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for aol.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 6 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
13
Single-page score
+33
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
46
Avg across 6 pages · Range 46–46
Total Words
1320
Avg Bloat
82.8×
Ext. Citations
1
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://aol.com/products
Your privacy choices
product 46 82.8× 220
https://aol.com/blog
Your privacy choices
blog 46 82.8× 220
https://aol.com/docs
Your privacy choices
docs 46 82.8× 220
https://aol.com/case-studies
Your privacy choices
social-proof 46 82.8× 220
https://aol.com/contact
Your privacy choices
support 46 82.8× 220
https://aol.com/integrations
Your privacy choices
integrations 46 82.8× 220
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Outbound External Citations
1 unique external domains cited across 6 pages
s.aolcdn.com ×6
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to aol.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": "Aol",
  "url": "https://aol.com",
  "logo": "https://s.yimg.com/oa/build/images/favicons/aol.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": "Aol",
  "url": "https://aol.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://aol.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 blocked — Claude cannot cite your content. Many AI assistants rely on it.
text
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 2% 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>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
15
Projected Score
46
Improvement
+31 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 pts
Allow ClaudeBot +5 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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