buzzsprout.com 67 C
🛡️ SEO 50 🤖 GEO 76 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 80

buzzsprout.com — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

buzzsprout.com
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At 69/100, the ACRI for buzzsprout.com indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 58), buzzsprout.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The low ghost ratio (0%) confirms that what crawlers see matches what users see — a hallmark of strong SSR implementation. A 9.4× 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. All major AI bot user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended) are permitted by robots.txt, ensuring broad AI crawler access.

67
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (50) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Feb 28, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 25 snapshots
Feb 22 Feb 28
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
No recent changes detected by adaptive crawler.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)50 × 0.25 = 12.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)76 × 0.40 = 30.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)80 × 0.15 = 12.0
Weighted sum = 12.5 + 30.4 + 11.8 + 12.0
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
33
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #3673
+36 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 36%
Score 69/100

buzzsprout.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 buzzsprout.com ranks here

Tech stackRuby on Rails
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat9.4×

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

33 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

148 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 16
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Buzzsprout: Podcast Hosting, Promotion & Analytics
  • ✓ og:description — Buzzsprout is the easiest way to start a podcast. It gets your podcast online and into Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify. Then you can track your show with the most advanced podcast statistics.
  • ✓ 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
💡
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 →
buzzsprout.com
48
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 0%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 33/100 — Low
Structured Elements 36 elements (36 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1091
Raw Density3.3%
💡Low structure score (33/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 36 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

46
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability46/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostLow (30/100) — efficient for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (16.4 KB)Bloat (138.4 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.4× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage65 / 65 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: 89.4% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 4205 / Noise: 35437 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
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AI Answer Preview

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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/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of buzzsprout.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
Podcast hosting and support for creators
Target Audience
Podcasters, content creators, podcast industry professionals
Pricing Model
Not explicitly stated, but likely tiered pricing based on features and usage
🛡️ Compliance Standards
IAB v2.2 certified analytics
🏆 Competitive Moat
Early contributor to podcasting standards, comprehensive community support, direct listener connection
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Weekly newsletterYouTube channel subscriptionFacebook group participation
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No structured FAQ schema
• Thin landing pages for features
Model: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-28 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkRuby on Rails
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time572 ms
Raw HTML Size154.9 KB
Visible Text Size16.4 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

572 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

867
DOM nodes
155 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
  • ✓ CDN cache status → MISS
  • ✓ 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

80/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

57
internal links
15
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

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 377 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
48
Single-page score
+7
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
55
Avg across 377 pages · Range 36–90
Topical Cohesion
19%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
246070
Avg Bloat
49.1×
RAG Fractures [?]
3
⚠️
3 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 3 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.buzzsprout.com/blog/how-to-start-a-podcast
How to Start a Podcast: Complete Step-by-Step Guide [2026]
pricing 90 4.1× 5097 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/podcasting-tips
80 Podcasting Tips to Start a Successful Podcast [2026]
pricing 90 4.9× 3306 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/book-top-podcast-guests
10 Ways to Book Podcast Guests That Will Grow Your Audience
pricing 90 4.5× 3262 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/best-podcasts-for-podcasters
Best Podcasts about Podcasting [2024]
pricing 85 6.3× 2183 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/untapped-podcasting-ideas
75 Podcast Ideas and Topics to Explore in 2026
pricing 85 5.7× 3300 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/garageband-podcast-tutorial
GarageBand Tutorial for Podcasters: How to Setup, Record, and Edit a Podcast on a Mac
pricing 85 7.1× 1848 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/promote-podcast
How to Promote Your Podcast: 8 Simple Strategies [2024]
pricing 85 7.3× 1927 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/best-podcast-courses
Best Free Podcast Courses for 2024
pricing 85 6.4× 2297 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/buzzsprout-setup
Setting up a Buzzsprout Account
pricing 85 10.0× 1284 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/best-podcasting-blogs
15 Best Podcasting Blogs [2021 Update] 
pricing 85 7.5× 1815 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/how-to-cut-a-track-in-audacity
How to Cut a Track in Audacity
pricing 85 9.3× 1298 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/best-podcast-apps
Best Podcast Listening Apps for iOS & Android [2022]
pricing 85 6.5× 2372 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/descript-walkthrough
Descript Review & Walkthrough
pricing 85 7.2× 1832 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/submit-podcast-spotify
How to Submit Your Podcast to Spotify: Complete Guide [2024]
pricing 85 8.3× 1596 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/free-music-for-podcasts
10 Best Places to Get Free Music for Your Podcast [2024]
pricing 85 7.0× 1891 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/record-your-podcast
How to Record a Podcast in 5 Easy Steps [2026]
pricing 85 8.3× 1544 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/record-podcast-remotely
How I Record Remote Podcasts (Best Tools & Settings for 2026)
pricing 85 5.8× 2630 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/podcast-statistics
Podcast Statistics and Data [September 2024]
pricing 85 7.4× 2112 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/podcast-seo
How to Rank Higher on Apple Podcasts (Data‑Backed Guide)
pricing 85 6.7× 2048 💰 Pricing
https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/best-headphones-for-podcasting
Best Headphones for Podcasting [2026]
pricing 85 5.9× 2328 💰 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
/help/ 143 52 0% 30.2× High JS Bloat
/new/ 118 36 0% 108.5× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 102 80 0% 10.6× High JS Bloat
/features/ 2 59 0% 25.5× High JS Bloat
/gdpr/ 1 49 0% 22.9× High JS Bloat
/privacy/ 1 77 0% 9.4× High JS Bloat
/podcast-name-generator/ 1 77 0% 9.6× High JS Bloat
/refunds/ 1 64 0% 18.4× High JS Bloat
/policies_summary/ 1 49 0% 31.0× High JS Bloat
/pricing/ 1 46 0% 53.7× High JS Bloat
/dmca/ 1 77 0% 7.4× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 59 0% 22.7× High JS Bloat
/tos/ 1 77 0% 5.2× High JS Bloat
/wordpress-podcast-plugin/ 1 46 0% 39.6× High JS Bloat
/switch/ 1 64 0% 16.0× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 377 pages
twitter.com ×377
youtube.com ×376
facebook.com ×376
podstandards.org ×376
apps.apple.com ×376
play.google.com ×376
buzzcast.buzzsprout.com ×54
youtu.be ×22
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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

A 15 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.

46
Homepage ACRI
61
Inner Avg ACRI
-15
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
23%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
54 40% pricing https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/introducing-buzzsprout-for-ios
54 40% pricing https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/buzzsprout-ads
67 20% pricing https://www.buzzsprout.com/blog/introducing-fan-mail
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 25/100

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

34 DOMAINS

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

127
Total Links
34
Unique Domains
8.5
Avg/Page
27%
Diversity
youtube.com apps.apple.com podstandards.org twitter.com facebook.com play.google.com buzzcast.buzzsprout.com podcastindex.org buzzsproutweekly.buzzsprout.com happytohelp.buzzsprout.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 36.9

AI trust scores for the domains buzzsprout.com links to. Citing high-trust sources lifts your own credibility signal.

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
69
Projected Score
85
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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🧭 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