brandonhall.com 67 C
🛡️ SEO 81 🤖 GEO 76 ⚡ Perf 28 🏗️ Arch 71

brandonhall.com — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

brandonhall.com
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With a solid 76/100 ACRI, brandonhall.com is well-positioned for AI search — better than 84% of sites in the Radar. Compared to other education sites (avg score: 57), brandonhall.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Its server-rendered architecture ensures AI crawlers receive complete HTML on first request, a key advantage for extractability. Token bloat registers at 9.1× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. Structured data coverage is solid at 2 blocks, covering core entities — expanding to include FAQ or Breadcrumb schemas could strengthen the profile further. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

67
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (28) is your bottleneck.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)81 × 0.25 = 20.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)76 × 0.40 = 30.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)28 × 0.20 = 5.6
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)71 × 0.15 = 10.7
Weighted sum = 20.2 + 30.4 + 5.6 + 10.7
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
31
Structure
avg 35
44
Schema
avg 10
85
Tech Stack
avg 64
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 24%
Rank #241524
-8 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 16%
Score 76/100

brandonhall.com is more visible to Google than to AI models. There's room to improve AI discoverability to match your search reputation. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why brandonhall.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage2 blocks
Token bloat9.1×

Fastest improvements

  • 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

81/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

18 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

146 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 6
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 69
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Brandon Hall Group
  • ✓ og:description — Brandon Hall Group is a research and advisory firm that provides expert insights, tools, and strategies to help organizations achieve their goals.
  • ✓ 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

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 education sector, rndirectors.com (ACRI: 85) 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 →
brandonhall.com
59
Your ACRI Score
85
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. rndirectors.com has schema coverage of 4 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 0%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 31/100 — Low
Structured Elements 141 elements (141 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words4973
Raw Density2.8%
💡Low structure score (31/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 141 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 ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks2 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

4/7 schema types detected
✅ Organization
❌ Product/Service
✅ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
✅ Article
✅ WebSite
💡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.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

56
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability56/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (85/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (87.1 KB)Bloat (705.3 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.1× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context28% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage19 / 67 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 28% 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: 89.0% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 22298 / Noise: 180547 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.

Simulating AI extraction…

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time1027 ms
Raw HTML Size792.4 KB
Visible Text Size87.1 KB

Performance & Speed

28/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1027 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

3122
DOM nodes
792 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=600, must-revalidate
  • ✓ CDN cache status → DYNAMIC
  • ✓ 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

71/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://brandonhall.com/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

212
internal links
32
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 59/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for brandonhall.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 1 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
59
Single-page score
+5
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 1 pages · Range 64–64
Total Words
3679
Avg Bloat
36.2×
RAG Fractures
1
Ext. Citations
9
⚠️
1 RAG-Chunking Fracture Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 1 page will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://brandonhall.com/about
About Us - Brandon Hall GroupAbout Us - Brandon Hall Group
pricing 64 36.2× 3679 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
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Outbound External Citations
9 unique external domains cited across 1 pages
totaltech.brandonhall.com ×1
youtube.com ×1
excellenceawards.brandonhall.com ×1
excellenceconference.brandonhall.com ×1
twitter.com ×1
facebook.com ×1
linkedin.com ×1
agency.brandonhall.com ×1
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to brandonhall.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

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

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
76
Projected Score
82
Improvement
+6 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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