cmu.edu 71 B
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 81 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 80

cmu.edu — Global SEODiff Score 71/100

cmu.edu
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At 73/100, the ACRI for cmu.edu indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Within the education vertical, this places cmu.edu above the industry average of 58 —, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Content is delivered server-side, meaning bots and AI agents can parse the full page without executing JavaScript. A tight 3.8× token bloat ratio reflects disciplined markup: minimal noise between the crawler and the content it needs. 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.

71
B — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (46) is your bottleneck.
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🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)81 × 0.40 = 32.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)80 × 0.15 = 12.0
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 32.4 + 14.8 + 12.0
Global SEODiff Score = 71 (B)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
53
Structure
avg 36
2
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.2%
Rank #1743
+25 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 25%
Score 73/100

cmu.edu 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 cmu.edu ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat3.8×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

32 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

156 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 10
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.cmu.edu/
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → en
  • ✗ 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

81/100 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 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 →
cmu.edu
60
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.

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 53/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 91 elements (91 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1080
Raw Density8.4%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

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

61
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability61/100 — 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

26%
🗑️ 74%
Useful Content (25.8 KB)Bloat (72.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.8× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage23 / 23 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

30 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 73.8% · SNR: 0.35 · Signal: 6612 / Noise: 18636 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of cmu.edu 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
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Target Audience
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
SEMANTIC VOID
📊 Content Depth
3/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• SEMANTIC VOID
Model: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-27 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time586 ms
Raw HTML Size98.6 KB
Visible Text Size25.8 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

586 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

672
DOM nodes
99 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=3600, public
  • ✗ 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

80/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

116
internal links
8
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.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 266 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
60
Single-page score
-1
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
60
Avg across 266 pages · Range 34–90
Topical Cohesion
6%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
159091
Avg Bloat
72.1×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.cmu.edu/about/rankings-and-awards
Rankings & Awards | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 90 3.4× 13399 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/legal/privacy-notice
Privacy Notice | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 90 3.4× 7594 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/about/open-searches/search-executive-director-swartz-center-entrepreneurship/candidate-profile
Executive Director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship | Carnegie Mellon University
about 85 8.1× 2178
https://www.cmu.edu/about/ucm-impact-report
University Communications and Marketing Impact Report | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 8.4× 5031 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2022
President in the News - 2022 | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 8.8× 1975 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/the-provost/past-provosts
Past Provosts | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 7.1× 2689 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/campus-comms/08-20-25
Meeting the Challenges of a Shifting Landscape | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 9.0× 1820 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2020
President in the News - 2020 | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 9.6× 1765 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/past-presidents
Past Presidents | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 7.7× 2445 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/campus-comms/03-26-25
Navigating a Shifting Landscape | Carnegie Mellon University
other 85 8.5× 1922
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2019
President in the News - 2019 | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 85 9.6× 1769 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/about/history
History | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 75 18.4× 1020 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/campus-comms/03-26-24
Leadership Transition in University Advancement | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 75 18.4× 803 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2018
President in the News - 2018 | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 75 13.3× 1230 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/the-provost/university-professors
University Professors | Carnegie Mellon University
other 75 19.0× 1089
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2021
President in the News - 2021 | Carnegie Mellon University
other 75 14.2× 1118
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/in-the-news/2023
President in the News - 2023 | Carnegie Mellon University
other 75 11.3× 1459
https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/the-provost/campus-comms/04-18-25
Continuing Support for Immigration Issues | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 75 17.9× 842 💰 Pricing
https://www.cmu.edu/work-that-matters/energy-innovation/ai-and-its-growing-energy-demand
AI and Its Growing Energy Demand | Carnegie Mellon University
other 75 16.5× 914
https://www.cmu.edu/research-and-creativity/research-news/building-next-generation-research-support
Building Next-Generation Research Support at CMU | Carnegie Mellon University
pricing 75 13.1× 1317 💰 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
/leadership/ 145 62 0% 48.0× High JS Bloat
/regional-impact/ 56 46 0% 186.8× High JS Bloat
/work-that-matters/ 33 69 0% 22.6× High JS Bloat
/about/ 9 71 0% 23.8× High JS Bloat
/research-and-creativity/ 5 66 0% 29.2× High JS Bloat
/academics/ 4 60 0% 43.3× High JS Bloat
/legal/ 4 79 0% 10.6× High JS Bloat
/student-admission/ 2 57 0% 45.5× High JS Bloat
/campus-life/ 2 62 0% 34.1× High JS Bloat
/current-students/ 1 57 0% 65.5× High JS Bloat
/health-safety/ 1 67 0% 28.5× High JS Bloat
/social-media/ 1 67 0% 27.7× High JS Bloat
/faculty-staff/ 1 47 0% 93.6× High JS Bloat
/directory-contact/ 1 67 0% 35.8× High JS Bloat
/global/ 1 57 0% 38.0× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 266 pages
youtube.com ×266
threads.net ×266
athletics.cmu.edu ×266
instagram.com ×266
bookstore.web.cmu.edu ×266
library.cmu.edu ×266
linkedin.com ×266
bsky.app ×266
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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

B 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.

57
Homepage ACRI
59
Inner Avg ACRI
-2
ACRI Delta
20%
Homepage Ghost
21%
Inner Avg Ghost
22
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
34 40% support https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/contact
34 40% other https://www.cmu.edu/regional-impact/directory/megan-walter
44 40% other https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/president/campus-comms/2026
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

B 60/100

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
Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-3260 General Inquiries provost@cmu
🔗

Citation Profile

68 DOMAINS

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

281
Total Links
68
Unique Domains
18.7
Avg/Page
24%
Diversity
youtube.com threads.net facebook.com linkedin.com ai.cmu.edu library.cmu.edu scholars.cmu.edu events.cmu.edu bookstore.web.cmu.edu instagram.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 26.8

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for cmu.edu:

Current Score
73
Projected Score
86
Improvement
+13 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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