coloradosun.com 59 D
🛡️ SEO 51 🤖 GEO 67 ⚡ Perf 27 🏗️ Arch 91

coloradosun.com — Global SEODiff Score 59/100

coloradosun.com
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At 79/100, the ACRI for coloradosun.com indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Compared to other developer sites (avg score: 57), coloradosun.com performs above the benchmark, 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. Heavy markup overhead (24.0× bloat) forces AI systems to wade through excess code before finding useful information. Structured data coverage is solid at 3 blocks, covering core entities — expanding to include FAQ or Breadcrumb schemas could strengthen the profile further. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

59
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Performance (27) has the most room for improvement.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (24×) → +5–10 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 4 snapshots
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)51 × 0.25 = 12.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)67 × 0.40 = 26.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)27 × 0.20 = 5.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)91 × 0.15 = 13.7
Weighted sum = 12.8 + 26.8 + 5.4 + 13.7
Global SEODiff Score = 59 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
44
Structure
avg 36
46
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 3%
Rank #31993
+6 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 9%
Score 79/100

coloradosun.com shows stronger AI visibility than traditional SEO ranking. Great AI foundation to build on. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why coloradosun.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
Industrydeveloper
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage3 blocks
Token bloat24.0×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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Traditional SEO

51/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

66 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

129 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 53
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — The Colorado Sun: News, climate, politics, water, housing and more
  • ✓ og:description — The Colorado Sun is an award-winning news outlet that covers all of Colorado — from water and climate to politics and business.
  • ✓ 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

67/100 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 developer sector, hikkoshizamurai.jp (ACRI: 88) 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 →
coloradosun.com
61
Your ACRI Score
88
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. hikkoshizamurai.jp has schema coverage of 5 blocks and uses Custom / Proprietary. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
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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.

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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 0%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 44/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 74 elements (74 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1275
Raw Density5.8%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks3 blocks

Schema Coverage Map

3/7 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

54
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability54/100 — 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

4%
🗑️ 96%
Useful Content (18.0 KB)Bloat (414.0 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio24.0× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context90% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage46 / 51 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 432.0 KB, but only 18.0 KB is text. 4% useful / 96% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (24.0×) 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: 95.8% · SNR: 0.04 · Signal: 4609 / Noise: 105978 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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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 coloradosun.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
The Colorado Sun is a journalist-founded, award-winning and nonprofit news outlet dedicated to providing comprehensive, nonpartisan journalism about Colorado, fostering
Target Audience
Journalists, news consumers, community members, donors, and readers interested in Colorado news and information.
Pricing Model
Donations, membership fees, sponsorships, underwriting, and foundation grants.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Commitment to nonpartisan journalism and community support, operating as a nonprofit with a focus on serving Colorado’s needs.
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Template comparison pages (e.g., for membership options)Link copy for Valentine's giftsLinks to annual reports
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Thin landing pages for features (e.g., membership options)
• Lack of structured FAQ schema
Model: mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-03-01 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time3717 ms
Raw HTML Size432.0 KB
Visible Text Size18.0 KB

Performance & Speed

27/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

3717 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1511
DOM nodes
432 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=44, must-revalidate
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 Tracker Tax

2
tracker scripts
2
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
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📐 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

91/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

260
internal links
26
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.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 91 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
61
Single-page score
+7
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
68
Avg across 91 pages · Range 49–77
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
110730
Avg Bloat
67.1×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/19/mike-coffman-jason-crow-race-explained/
Mike Coffman vs. Jason Crow: Why the Republican congressman is in the political battle for his life
pricing 77 16.1× 3554 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/17/rural-colorado-landfills-problems-closures/
Rural landfills in southeast Colorado reach compromise with health officials over environmental concerns
pricing 77 18.8× 2874 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/17/where-does-colorados-trash-go/
Colorado isn't running out of space for trash, but that's not the point
pricing 77 18.5× 3191 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/18/walker-stapleton-pera-action/
Walker Stapleton and PERA: A complicated legacy
pricing 77 19.4× 2706 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/11/fort-lyon-colorado-homeless-audit/
Fort Lyon reaches five-year mark of housing homeless
pricing 77 17.9× 2960 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/13/municipal-broadband-cities-colorado/
More Colorado cities and counties say yes to broadband by voting to get out of an old state law
pricing 77 19.0× 2849 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/08/09/mueller-family-bids-farewell-crested-butte/
Crested Butte resort owner Mueller family bids farewell after 20-year rollercoaster ride
pricing 72 20.9× 2497 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/08/13/alex-reish-medicaid-board/
Alex Reish received thousands from pharmaceutical companies while serving on Colorado DUR board
pricing 72 28.2× 1752 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/08/20/amtrak-southwest-chief-bussing-proposal/
Amtrak's Southwest Chief service could be suspended through Colorado
pricing 72 27.0× 1860 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/08/24/danyel-joffe-obituary/
Danyel Joffe obituary: How her work led to Colorado’s law compensating people wrongly convicted of crimes
pricing 72 25.7× 1914 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/05/cielo-vista-ranch-legal-battle/
Billionaire owner of storied San Luis Valley Ranch wants to control access
pricing 72 26.7× 1862 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/14/lang-sias-tailhook-colorado-governors-race/
The Tailhook scandal shook the Navy, and Colorado GOP candidate Lang Sias found himself in the middle of it
pricing 72 24.2× 2092 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/11/colorado-governors-race-outside-money/
Colorado governor's race spending: Where the outside money is coming from and what they want
pricing 72 27.8× 1955 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/11/proposition-112-amendment-75-colorado/
Proposition 112 and Amendment 74: Ballot measures respond to pitched climate around Colorado oil, gas activity
pricing 72 27.2× 1847 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/11/good-samaritan-mine-bill-2018/
Good Samaritan mine bill 2018: Why abandoned mine legislation has never passed
pricing 72 25.6× 2104 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/11/911-stories-colorado-opinion/
Opinion: I grew up as part of the 9/11 generation. Here’s why we should all remember and retell our memories from that day.
pricing 72 23.0× 2188 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/12/opioids-endocarditis-colorado-rising-cases/
The opioid crisis is breaking hearts in Colorado - and that's forcing doctors to make tough choices - The Colorado Sun
pricing 72 20.9× 2628 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/13/how-the-outdoor-voter-has-emerged-as-a-potentially-potent-political-force-in-colorado/
Recreation voters Colorado: The outdoor industry wants them to be a potent force
pricing 72 27.0× 1961 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/17/colorado-blues-dancing-denver/
A Gap commercial sparked partner dancing’s revival. Now blues dancers in Colorado are trying to reclaim a style lost in the frenzy. - The Colorado Sun
pricing 72 26.3× 1981 💰 Pricing
https://coloradosun.com/2018/09/18/rural-colorado-recycling-options/
Recycling can be a hard sell in rural Colorado. That hasn't discouraged a resourceful nonprofit effort in Swink.
pricing 72 20.8× 2573 💰 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
/2018/ 84 69 0% 62.1× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 2 59 0% 94.9× High JS Bloat
/all/ 1 54 0% 166.8× High JS Bloat
/jobs/ 1 49 0% 417.2× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 69 0% 34.8× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 1 69 0% 32.3× High JS Bloat
/support/ 1 69 0% 46.1× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 91 pages
x.com ×90
mstdn.social ×90
youtube.com ×90
bsky.app ×90
instagram.com ×90
threads.net ×90
linkedin.com ×90
newspack.com ×90
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 4% 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 Coloradosun?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Coloradosun does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Coloradosun work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Coloradosun."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
79
Projected Score
87
Improvement
+8 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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