digitaltrends.com 58 D
🛡️ SEO 30 🤖 GEO 70 ⚡ Perf 39 🏗️ Arch 99

digitaltrends.com — Global SEODiff Score 58/100

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digitaltrends.com shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 76/100, outperforming 83% of indexed domains. In the developer sector, digitaltrends.com outperforms the average (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. Token bloat registers at 11.6× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. Minimal structured data (1 block) limits the site's ability to communicate entity relationships to AI systems. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

58
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (30) needs urgent attention.
🎯 Top Fix: Fix title tag length → +3 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 22 snapshots
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)30 × 0.25 = 7.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)70 × 0.40 = 28.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)39 × 0.20 = 7.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)99 × 0.15 = 14.8
Weighted sum = 7.5 + 28.0 + 7.8 + 14.8
Global SEODiff Score = 58 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
63
Structure
avg 36
2
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.3%
Rank #3166
+17 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 17%
Score 76/100

digitaltrends.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 digitaltrends.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
Industrydeveloper
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat11.6×

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JavaScript Rendering Check

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Traditional SEO

30/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

73 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

56 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 5
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Digital Trends
  • ✓ og:description — Tech Product Reviews, How To, Best Ofs, deals and Advice
  • ✓ 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

70/100 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 →
digitaltrends.com
63
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.
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison →
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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 63/100 — Good
Structured Elements 356 elements (356 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3005
Raw Density11.9%

🏷️ 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

53
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability53/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (65/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

8%
🗑️ 92%
Useful Content (36.1 KB)Bloat (383.4 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio11.6× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context98% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage79 / 81 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: 91.4% · SNR: 0.09 · Signal: 9246 / Noise: 98145 tokens

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🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1089 ms
Raw HTML Size419.5 KB
Visible Text Size36.1 KB

Performance & Speed

39/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1089 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2110
DOM nodes
420 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → s-maxage=300, max-age=300, must-revalidate
  • ✗ 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.

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Architecture & Trust

99/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.digitaltrends.com/sitemap-articles-2024-index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

496
internal links
18
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 163 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
63
Single-page score
+1
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 163 pages · Range 32–67
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
161719
Avg Bloat
60.0×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/bargains-can-be-found-on-home-auction-web-sites/
Bargains Can Be Found on Home Auction Web Sites - Digital Trends
pricing 67 37.4× 1455 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/listen-to-music-anywhere/
Listen to Music Anywhere - Digital Trends
pricing 67 29.3× 2035 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/best-iphone-apps/
The best iPhone apps in 2025: These are the apps you need to download right now - Digital Trends
pricing 67 37.4× 1552 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ticketmaster-finds-another-way-to-cut-out-scalpers/
Ticketmaster Finds Another Way to Cut Out Scalpers - Digital Trends
pricing 67 39.1× 1386 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-review/
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Review - Digital Trends
pricing 67 24.8× 2434 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/beatles-stones-super-mario-big-autumn-for-games/
Beatles, Stones, Super Mario: big autumn for games - Digital Trends
pricing 67 35.7× 1543 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/fewer-players-in-wireless-could-rein-in-price-cuts/
Fewer Players in Wireless Could Rein in Price Cuts - Digital Trends
pricing 67 39.5× 1374 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/worlds-most-unique-gadgets/
World's Most Unique Gadgets - Digital Trends
pricing 67 38.5× 1462 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/one-hundred-m-plus-broadband-map-runs-into-cost-questions/
$100M-plus Broadband Map Runs into Cost Questions - Digital Trends
pricing 67 35.4× 1545 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/government-websites-kept-alive-at-cyber-cemetery/
Government Websites Kept Alive at Cyber Cemetery - Digital Trends
pricing 67 41.8× 1299 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/how-to-make-money-online/
How to make money online - Digital Trends
pricing 67 26.1× 2196 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/digital-camera-tips-and-tricksten-reasons-to-buy-a-dslr/
Digital Camera Tips and Tricks: 10 Reasons to Buy A DSLR - Digital Trends
pricing 67 29.9× 1945 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/tech-etiquette-guide/
Tech Etiquette Guide - Digital Trends
pricing 67 20.5× 2893 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-free-alternatives-to-commercial-software/
The best free software - Digital Trends
pricing 67 32.5× 1804 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-erase-and-encrpyt-a-hard-drive/
How to erase a hard drive and encrypt your files - Digital Trends
pricing 67 28.0× 2033 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/playstation-3-media-server-setup/
Playstation 3 Media Server Setup - Digital Trends
pricing 67 23.8× 2530 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/apples-worst-products-and-biggest-failures/
Apple's Worst Products and Biggest Failures - Digital Trends
pricing 67 24.9× 2310 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/os-x-snow-leopard-the-complete-guide/
OS X Snow Leopard: The Complete Guide - Digital Trends
pricing 67 24.1× 2443 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/boost-your-pce28099s-performance-for-free/
Speed up your PC’s Performance for Free - Digital Trends
pricing 67 32.0× 1746 💰 Pricing
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/how-to-rip-a-dvd-or-blu-ray-movie/
How to rip a Blu-ray or DVD - Digital Trends
pricing 67 28.6× 2146 💰 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
/computing/ 70 64 0% 61.4× High JS Bloat
/gaming/ 19 64 0% 58.4× High JS Bloat
/home-theater/ 16 65 0% 59.4× High JS Bloat
/mobile/ 15 64 0% 62.5× High JS Bloat
/cool-tech/ 13 64 0% 61.2× High JS Bloat
/photography/ 12 64 0% 54.2× High JS Bloat
/press-releases/ 5 64 0% 69.3× High JS Bloat
/phones/ 4 65 0% 48.0× High JS Bloat
/web/ 4 66 0% 34.3× High JS Bloat
/home/ 3 64 0% 72.3× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 64 0% 45.8× High JS Bloat
/features/ 1 32 0% 100.0× High JS Bloat
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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.

64
Homepage ACRI
62
Inner Avg ACRI
+2
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
37%
Inner Avg Ghost
6
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
64 40% pricing https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/mini-coupe-concept/
64 40% pricing https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/tivo-sues-att-verizon-for-dvr-patent-violations/
64 40% pricing https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/verbatim-insight-drives-show-name-and-free-space-even-unplugged/
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 35/100

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: Geoff Duncan, Ian Bell, Dena Cassella
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Citation Profile

28 DOMAINS

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

186
Total Links
28
Unique Domains
12.4
Avg/Page
15%
Diversity
pinterest.com linkedin.com es.digitaltrends.com twitter.com adcetera.com dtmg.co youtube.com facebook.com flipboard.com tiktok.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 67.1

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to digitaltrends.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": "Digitaltrends",
  "url": "https://digitaltrends.com",
  "logo": "https://www.digitaltrends.com/tachyon/2020/08/dt-site-icon.png?fit=144%2C144",
  "sameAs": []
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 8% 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 Digitaltrends?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Digitaltrends does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Digitaltrends work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Digitaltrends."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
76
Projected Score
90
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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