cfr.org 56 D
🛡️ SEO 58 🤖 GEO 59 ⚡ Perf 29 🏗️ Arch 80

cfr.org — Global SEODiff Score 56/100

cfr.org
📊

With a solid 67/100 ACRI, cfr.org is well-positioned for AI search — better than 59% of sites in the Radar. In the education sector, cfr.org outperforms the average (58), 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. Heavy markup overhead (50.0× bloat) forces AI systems to wade through excess code before finding useful information. Minimal structured data (1 block) limits the site's ability to communicate entity relationships to AI systems. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

56
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Performance (29) needs urgent attention.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (91×) → +5–10 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Feb 28, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 23 snapshots
Feb 22 Feb 28
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)58 × 0.25 = 14.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)59 × 0.40 = 23.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)29 × 0.20 = 5.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)80 × 0.15 = 12.0
Weighted sum = 14.5 + 23.6 + 5.8 + 12.0
Global SEODiff Score = 56 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
25
Structure
avg 36
2
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.6%
Rank #5919
+41 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 41%
Score 67/100

cfr.org 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 cfr.org ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat50×+

Fastest improvements

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

58/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

28 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

117 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 20
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Council on Foreign Relations
  • ✓ og:description — The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan member organization, think tank, and publisher.
  • ✓ 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

59/100 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.

🔗

Citation Alternatives

Research
💡
Insight: In the education sector, educationdirectory.com.au (ACRI: 86) 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 →
cfr.org
45
Your ACRI Score
86
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. educationdirectory.com.au has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses Custom / Proprietary. 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.

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🤖 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 25/100 — Low
Structured Elements 28 elements (28 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1436
Raw Density2.0%
💡Low structure score (25/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 28 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 Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

1/7 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.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

34
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability34/100 — AI models can barely extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (100/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

1%
🗑️ 99%
Useful Content (9.3 KB)Bloat (840.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio50×+ — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage66 / 66 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 849.3 KB, but only 9.3 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: 98.9% · SNR: 0.01 · Signal: 2383 / Noise: 215044 tokens

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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 cfr.org 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
CFR provides a nonpartisan resource for understanding foreign policy and international relations through membership, publications, and expert analysis.
Target Audience
Members, policymakers, business executives, journalists, educators, students, and interested citizens.
Pricing Model
Membership-based; details not specified.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Independent, nonpartisan analysis and a long-standing reputation for expertise in foreign policy.
📊 Content Depth
5/10
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
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time2372 ms
Raw HTML Size849.3 KB
Visible Text Size9.3 KB

Performance & Speed

29/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2372 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1283
DOM nodes
849 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=300
  • ✓ 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

80/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

74
internal links
16
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 45/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for cfr.org
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 993 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
45
Single-page score
+14
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
60
Avg across 993 pages · Range 40–68
Topical Cohesion
9%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
1381056
Avg Bloat
78.1×
RAG Fractures [?]
20
⚠️
20 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 20 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.cfr.org/articles/trade-agreements-explained
Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 68 20.0× 5352 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-i-got-my-career-foreign-policy-farah-pandith
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Farah Pandith | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 68 17.6× 5461 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/state-capitalism-america-government-investor-broker-rentierthug
State Capitalism in America: The Government as Investor, Broker, Rentier…Thug? | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 68 19.7× 5277 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-end-russia-ukraine-war
How to End the Russia-Ukraine War | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 24.9× 3883 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/securing-ukraine-next-steps
The Carrot-Stick Approach to Ending the War in Ukraine | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 25.3× 3786 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-middle-east-february-2025
China in the Middle East: February 2025 | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 25.0× 4135 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/what-trump-trade-policy-has-achieved-liberation-day
What Trump Trade Policy Has Achieved Since ‘Liberation Day’ | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 25.8× 4564 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-india-disrupts-and-navigates-wto
Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 23.0× 4657 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/toward-more-prosperous-less-polarized-worker-friendly-economy
Toward a More Prosperous, Less Polarized, Worker-Friendly Economy | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 24.5× 4016 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/chinas-ai-chip-deficit-why-huawei-cant-catch-nvidia-and-us-export-controls-should-remain
Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 21.4× 5101 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-use-russias-frozen-assets
How to Use Russia’s Frozen Assets | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 24.8× 3933 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/unpacking-trump-twist-national-security-strategy
Unpacking a Trump Twist of the National Security Strategy | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 27.1× 3700 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-i-got-my-career-foreign-policy-sam-vigersky
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Sam Vigersky | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 21.6× 4093 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/weathering-storm-hague-summit-and-future-nato
Weathering the Storm: The Hague Summit and the Future of NATO | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 25.3× 3867 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-i-got-my-career-foreign-policy-michael-werz
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Michael Werz | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 23.4× 3804 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-i-got-my-career-foreign-policy-esther-brimmer
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Esther Brimmer | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 21.5× 4177 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/sovereign-funds-and-american-investment-strategy-how-responsibly-create-us-strategic
Sovereign Funds and American Investment Strategy: How to Responsibly Create a U.S. Strategic Investment Fund | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 27.3× 3575 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/indias-industrial-policies-rejecting-old-status-quo-and-creating-new
Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 27.2× 4052 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/reauthorizing-dfc-primer-policymakers
Reauthorizing DFC: A Primer for Policymakers | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 21.9× 4668 💰 Pricing
https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-i-got-my-career-foreign-policy-john-sawers
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: John Sawers | Council on Foreign Relations
pricing 63 20.7× 4398 💰 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
/articles/ 500 60 1% 73.0× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 993 pages
foreignaffairs.com ×993
education.cfr.org ×988
link.cfr.org ×988
youtube.com ×988
facebook.com ×987
linkedin.com ×987
x.com ×986
instagram.com ×985
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Bait & Switch Delta

C 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.

50
Homepage ACRI
47
Inner Avg ACRI
+3
ACRI Delta
70%
Homepage Ghost
70%
Inner Avg Ghost
31
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
60 70% pricing https://cfr.org/blog
40 70% pricing https://www.cfr.org/articles/thinking-about-venezuela
40 70% pricing https://www.cfr.org/articles/dispatch-nazi-scholar-inspiring-chinas-intelligentsia
🛡️

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
Named leadership: Elliott Abrams, Benn Steil, Benn Steil
🔗

Citation Profile

25 DOMAINS

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

149
Total Links
25
Unique Domains
9.9
Avg/Page
17%
Diversity
youtube.com foreignaffairs.com x.com linkedin.com facebook.com education.cfr.org link.cfr.org instagram.com tiktok.com cnn.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 53.4

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to cfr.org. 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": "Cfr",
  "url": "https://cfr.org",
  "logo": "https://cdn.cfr.org/themes/custom/cfr_theme/favicon-16x16.png",
  "sameAs": []
}
</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 Cfr?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Cfr does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Cfr work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Cfr."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for cfr.org:

Current Score
67
Projected Score
81
Improvement
+14 pts
Add Organization schema +6 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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