crooksandliars.com 68 C
🛡️ SEO 43 🤖 GEO 76 ⚡ Perf 74 🏗️ Arch 83

crooksandliars.com — Global SEODiff Score 68/100

crooksandliars.com
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The AI-Readiness profile for crooksandliars.com is strong: an ACRI of 75/100 places it ahead of 81% of domains in the index. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places crooksandliars.com above the industry average of 57 —, 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. A 5.5× bloat ratio is typical for sites in this tech tier — not wasteful, but streamlining could further boost extractability. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. All major AI bot user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended) are permitted by robots.txt, ensuring broad AI crawler access.

68
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (43) is your bottleneck.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)43 × 0.25 = 10.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)76 × 0.40 = 30.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)74 × 0.20 = 14.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)83 × 0.15 = 12.4
Weighted sum = 10.8 + 30.4 + 14.8 + 12.4
Global SEODiff Score = 68 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
28
Structure
avg 36
42
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 3%
Rank #32603
+16 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 19%
Score 75/100

crooksandliars.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 crooksandliars.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat5.5×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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🛡️

Traditional SEO

43/100 25 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

📝 Title Tag

55 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

82 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

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

🔍 Indexability

  • ✗ Canonical tag present
  • ✓ 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

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 infrastructure sector, plodopitomnik-sad.ru (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 →
crooksandliars.com
49
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. plodopitomnik-sad.ru has schema coverage of 12 blocks and uses Express. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
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Hallucination Risk

Research

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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 28/100 — Low
Structured Elements 10 elements (10 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words432
Raw Density2.3%
💡Low structure score (28/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 10 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 Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

2/7 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.
💡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

62
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability62/100 — 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

18%
🗑️ 82%
Useful Content (10.5 KB)Bloat (47.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio5.5× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage20 / 20 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: 81.9% · SNR: 0.22 · Signal: 2700 / Noise: 12244 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

SEODiff AI analyzed the extracted content of crooksandliars.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
Crooks and Liars provides progressive news and media criticism through a website and associated social media channels.
Target Audience
Progressive activists, journalists, media critics, politically engaged individuals interested in in-depth analysis of news and political discourse.
Pricing Model
Ad-free subscription model; no explicit pricing details provided.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Independent, investigative journalism focused on progressive perspectives and media analysis.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Lack of structured content organization
• Reliance on external links for deeper dives
Analyzed by SEODiff AI · 2026-03-02

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time843 ms
Raw HTML Size58.4 KB
Visible Text Size10.5 KB

Performance & Speed

74/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

843 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

552
DOM nodes
58 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
  • ✗ 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

83/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

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

🔗 Linking

84
internal links
11
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 90 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
49
Single-page score
+21
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
71
Avg across 90 pages · Range 54–85
Topical Cohesion
12%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
76482
Avg Bloat
17.1×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/test-0
It's Not Eric Cantor We Need To Worry About. It's His Staffers | Crooks and Liars
pricing 85 9.4× 1581 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/david-brooks-obama-isnt-pouring-arms-ukraine
David Brooks: Obama Isn't Pouring Arms Into Ukraine And Syria Fast Enough | Crooks and Liars
pricing 85 7.5× 2068 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/test
How New York And Illinois Curb A Key Labor Violation While Other States Fall Short | Crooks and Liars
pricing 85 6.2× 2230 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/did-harvard-know-it-was-invested-payday
Did Harvard Know It Was Invested In Payday Lending Scheme? | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 11.5× 1079 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/andrea-tantaros-ridiculous-claims-about
Andrea Tantaros' Ridiculous Claims About Obama Spark Classic Carville Response | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.2× 1439 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/new-mtp-lipstick-on-a-pig
New MTP Looks Like Lipstick On A Pig | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.2× 1410 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2006/10/06/new-la-times-publisher-is-a-right-wing-hatchet-man-with-ties-to-judge-roberts-and-ken-starr
New LA TIMES Publisher Is A Right Wing Hatchet Man With Ties To Judge Roberts And Ken Starr | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.5× 1403 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/non-interventionist-rand-paul-now-wants-us
'Non-Interventionist' Rand Paul Now Wants The U.S. To Destroy ISIS | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.6× 1388 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/wingnut-global-warming-denier-says-voting
Wingnut Global Warming Denier Says Voting Democrat 'Comes Close To Treason' | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.7× 1350 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/fox-news-rewrites-benghazi-narrative-after
Fox News Rewrites Benghazi! Narrative After New Expose | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.5× 1384 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/erik-rush-obama-helping-isis-set-terrorist
Erik Rush: Obama Helping ISIS Set Up Terrorist Base In New Mexico To Stage Attacks | Crooks and Liars
pricing 75 10.5× 1441 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/about
About Us | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 14.8× 626 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/dinesh-dsouza-throws-himself-mercy-court
Dinesh D'Souza Throws Himself On The Mercy Of The Court | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 14.8× 950 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/much-bigger-bp-fine-possible-after-judge
Much Bigger BP Fine Possible, After Judge Finds Them 'Grossly Negligent' In Gulf Explosion | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 12.9× 1015 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/marshall-roberts-real-trouble-regardless
No Matter What Kobach Does To Save Sen. Roberts, Incumbent Is Still In Real Trouble | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 12.3× 1177 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/report-ferguson-police-chief-lied-about
Report: Ferguson Police Chief Lied About Michael Brown Surveillance Tape | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 19.4× 696 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/rip-meet-press
RIP, Meet The Press! | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 15.9× 863 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/pat-robertson-tells-80-year-old-worried
Pat Robertson Tells 80-year-old Worried Over Money: Keep Tithing, Find A Job, Sell Stuff On EBay | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 14.7× 955 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2014/09/st-louis-post-dispatch-tries-slime-michael
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tries To Slime Michael Brown, Comes Up Empty | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 13.3× 1064 💰 Pricing
https://crooksandliars.com/2004/08/31/2
TV Coverage Favors RNC | Crooks and Liars
pricing 72 15.2× 808 💰 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
/2014/ 60 72 0% 15.9× High JS Bloat
/cltv/ 15 67 0% 21.0× High JS Bloat
/2006/ 8 71 0% 16.8× High JS Bloat
/2004/ 3 72 0% 16.9× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 62 0% 19.9× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 1 54 0% 29.9× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 72 0% 14.8× High JS Bloat
/2005/ 1 72 0% 18.7× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 90 pages
facebook.com ×90
twitter.com ×90
crooklyn.social ×90
flipboard.com ×90
bsky.app ×90
blueamerica.crooksandliars.com ×90
paypal.com ×88
kindest.com ×88
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
75
Projected Score
81
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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