bl.uk 62 C
🛡️ SEO 50 🤖 GEO 58 ⚡ Perf 56 🏗️ Arch 100

bl.uk — Global SEODiff Score 62/100

bl.uk
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At 73/100, the ACRI for bl.uk indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. In the infrastructure sector, bl.uk outperforms the average (58), 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. A 50.0× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

62
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (50) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (70×) → +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)58 × 0.40 = 23.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)56 × 0.20 = 11.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)100 × 0.15 = 15.0
Weighted sum = 12.5 + 23.2 + 11.2 + 15.0
Global SEODiff Score = 62 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
54
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.9%
Rank #9122
+25 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 25%
Score 73/100

bl.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 bl.uk 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

153 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.bl.uk
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ✗ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Welcome to the British Library
  • ✓ og:description — We are the UK's national library. Open to everyone and free to use. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ 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.

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AI Readiness / GEO

58/100 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
💡
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 →
bl.uk
43
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 →
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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 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 54/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 36 elements (36 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words419
Raw Density8.6%

🏷️ 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

42
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability42/100 — 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

1%
🗑️ 99%
Useful Content (2.7 KB)Bloat (183.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio50×+ — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage9 / 9 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 186.3 KB, but only 2.7 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: 98.6% · SNR: 0.01 · Signal: 682 / Noise: 47015 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.
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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 bl.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
The British Library provides access to a vast national collection of published and written materials, supports research, and offers services
Target Audience
Researchers, students, businesses, local communities, and the general public seeking information and cultural experiences.
Pricing Model
Free to use and open to everyone; donations are welcome to support the library's work.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Vast national collection, comprehensive services, and a long-standing commitment to accessibility and research.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Legal depositPublished authors, illustrators, editors, translators or audiobook narratorsbusiness servicesresearch organisation
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Limited information on specific pricing beyond donations
• Lack of explicit details on integration capabilities
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

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1419 ms
Raw HTML Size186.3 KB
Visible Text Size2.7 KB

Performance & Speed

56/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1419 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

609
DOM nodes
186 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, 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

100/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.bl.uk/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

56
internal links
5
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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

Your site scores 43/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for bl.uk
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 157 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
43
Single-page score
+11
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
54
Avg across 157 pages · Range 32–74
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
166832
Avg Bloat
33.0×
RAG Fractures [?]
2
⚠️
2 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 2 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.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-announces-food-season-2025
British Library Announces Food Season 2025 - British Library
pricing 74 7.1× 3809 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/unearthed-the-power-of-gardening
Unearthed opens at the British Library - The British Library
pricing 74 9.7× 2154 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/beyond-the-bassline-500-years-of-black-british-music-opens-at-the-british-library
Beyond the Bassline opens - British Library
about 73 9.9× 2367
https://www.bl.uk/services/research-collaboration/postdoctoral-visiting-fellowship-in-sustainability-and-environment
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability & Environment
pricing 68 19.0× 1083 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-acquires-rare-medieval-manuscripts
British Library acquires rare medieval manuscripts - British Library
about 64 12.6× 1581
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/cataloguing-the-paul-hirsch-papers
Cataloguing the Paul Hirsch Papers
pricing 64 11.3× 2589 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.bl.uk/about/careers
Careers, vacancies and benefits - British Library
about 63 22.6× 1598
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/first-exhibition-to-document-500-years-of-black-music-in-britain
First exhibition to document 500 years of Black music in Britain
about 63 12.3× 1448
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/2024-at-the-british-library
2024 at the British Library - British Library
about 63 12.7× 1325
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-announces-2025-food-season-awards-winners
British Library announces 2025 Food Season Awards winners
pricing 63 13.3× 1267 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/careers/early-careers
Early careers, apprenticeships, work experience - British Library
about 63 23.1× 969
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/last-chance-to-see-major-exhibition-that-tells-the-story-of-medieval-women-in-their-own-words
Last chance to see Medieval Women exhibition - British Library
about 63 10.8× 2118
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-acquires-elizabeth-barrett-browning-letters-and-john-galsworthy-archive
Library acquires Barrett Browning letters & John Galsworthy archive
about 63 10.4× 1862
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-announces-2025-exhibitions
British Library announces 2025 exhibitions - British Library
pricing 63 13.1× 1364 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/writers-award-2025
Writer's Award 2025 goes to Peter Brathwaite and Joseph Zárate
about 63 12.6× 1333
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/last-chance-to-see-major-exhibition-on-secret-maps-at-the-british-library
Last chance to see Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library
pricing 63 12.8× 1701 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/eccles-institute/america-collections
United States of America collection
about 63 12.8× 1497
https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/transforming-the-library/st-pancras
Transforming the Library at St Pancras - British Library
pricing 63 23.8× 928 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/last-chance-to-see-major-exhibition-exploring-fantasy
Last chance to see major exhibition exploring Fantasy
pricing 63 11.4× 2075 💰 Pricing
https://www.bl.uk/about/press/releases/british-library-opens-major-exhibition-on-secret-maps
British Library opens major exhibition on secret maps
pricing 63 12.7× 1838 💰 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
/about/ 64 57 0% 28.5× High JS Bloat
/stories/ 53 56 0% 28.6× High JS Bloat
/bipc/ 23 45 1% 50.8× Bot Blocked
/services/ 11 54 1% 32.2× Bot Blocked
/visit/ 2 60 1% 38.5× Bot Blocked
/hubs/ 2 43 1% 77.3× Bot Blocked
/collection/ 1 53 1% 54.8× Bot Blocked
/accessibility-statement/ 1 42 1% 38.0× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 157 pages
tiktok.com ×157
instagram.com ×157
support.bl.uk ×157
creativecommons.org ×157
imagesonline.bl.uk ×157
twitter.com ×157
events.bl.uk ×157
facebook.com ×157
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for bl.uk:

Current Score
73
Projected Score
91
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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