govinfo.gov 65 C
🛡️ SEO 35 🤖 GEO 82 ⚡ Perf 49 🏗️ Arch 90

govinfo.gov — Global SEODiff Score 65/100

govinfo.gov
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govinfo.gov shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 79/100, outperforming 91% of indexed domains. In the government sector, govinfo.gov 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. Token bloat registers at 5.1× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. No structured data was detected, which means AI systems must infer all entities and relationships from raw HTML alone. Robots.txt grants unrestricted access to the key AI user-agents, which is the strongest starting position for AI visibility.

65
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (35) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Feb 28, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 25 snapshots
Feb 22 Feb 28
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
No recent changes detected by adaptive crawler.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)35 × 0.25 = 8.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)82 × 0.40 = 32.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)49 × 0.20 = 9.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)90 × 0.15 = 13.5
Weighted sum = 8.8 + 32.8 + 9.8 + 13.5
Global SEODiff Score = 65 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
85
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.5%
Rank #5419
+9 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 9%
Score 79/100

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

Why govinfo.gov ranks here

Tech stackDrupal
Industrygovernment
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat5.1×

Fastest improvements

  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • Reduce token bloat (navigation/footer/code) so agents reach your main content faster (see Token Bloat).
  • Create an llms.txt file so AI crawlers can discover your content structure without heavy crawling. Generate llms.txt →
  • Run a full entropy audit to find which DOM regions waste the most tokens. Run Entropy Audit →
🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

35/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

43 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

0 chars
Missing

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 2
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 3
  • ✓ <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 — GovInfo
  • ✓ og:description — U.S. Government Publishing Office
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✓ twitter:card — summary
📐 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

82/100 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 government sector, lancom-systems.com (ACRI: 83) 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 →
govinfo.gov
61
Your ACRI Score
83
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. lancom-systems.com has schema coverage of 1 blocks and uses TYPO3. 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 85/100 — Excellent
Structured Elements 102 elements (102 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words474
Raw Density21.5%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ❌ Missing
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks0 — No JSON-LD detected

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

70
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability70/100 — AI models can easily 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

19%
🗑️ 81%
Useful Content (12.1 KB)Bloat (49.8 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio5.1× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage9 / 9 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: 80.4% · SNR: 0.24 · Signal: 3106 / Noise: 12750 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

🌐
This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
Toggle to "AI Agent View" to see what GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers actually extract from this page.
🤖

AI Answer Preview

NEW

See how AI models summarize your site. Left: your actual content. Right: what the LLM extracts and says about you.

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🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of govinfo.gov 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
Provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government
Target Audience
Librarians, government employees, researchers
Pricing Model
Free
🛡️ Compliance Standards
ISO 16363
🏆 Competitive Moat
Comprehensive index of every document issued by the U.S. Government, ISO 16363 certified preservation repository
📊 Content Depth
8/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)Finding FDsys Resources on GovInfo
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No structured FAQ schema
• Thin landing pages for features
Model: mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-28 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkDrupal
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time2318 ms
Raw HTML Size61.9 KB
Visible Text Size12.1 KB

Performance & Speed

49/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2318 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

577
DOM nodes
62 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✗ Cache-Control header
  • ✓ 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

90/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.govinfo.gov/sitemap/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

111
internal links
6
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 61/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for govinfo.gov
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 188 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
61
Single-page score
-11
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
51
Avg across 188 pages · Range 23–77
🔍
Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 61, but internal pages average only 51 — a -11-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
14%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
97431
Avg Bloat
35.3×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.govinfo.gov/about
About Us | GovInfo
pricing 77 5.3× 3115 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/policies
Policies | GovInfo
about 77 6.9× 1867
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/history
History | GovInfo
about 77 7.0× 1837
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/authentication
Authentication | GovInfo
about 77 5.6× 2451
https://govinfo.gov/about
About Us | GovInfo
pricing 77 5.3× 3115 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/june-2017-release
June 2017 Release Notes | GovInfo
pricing 77 8.4× 1519 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/jfk-assassination-records-collection
President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection | GovInfo
pricing 77 7.6× 1793 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/Kennedy-assassination-documents
Documents on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | GovInfo
pricing 77 5.7× 2602 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/september-2017-release
September 2017 Release Notes | GovInfo
pricing 77 7.4× 1668 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/news/meet-govinfo
Meet govinfo | GovInfo
pricing 77 6.4× 1875 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/warren-commission-report-and-hearings
Warren Commission Report and Hearings | GovInfo
pricing 77 8.0× 1601 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/developers
Developer Hub | GovInfo
docs 77 9.6× 1251
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/api
New govinfo API | GovInfo
pricing 67 10.3× 1221 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/digital-preservation
Digital Preservation | GovInfo
pricing 67 16.2× 668 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/september-2018-release
September 2018 Release Notes | GovInfo
pricing 67 11.0× 1078 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/amelia-earhart
Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | GovInfo
pricing 67 12.8× 848 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/september-11
September 11 | GovInfo
product 67 10.7× 1122
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/featured-content/president-ford
A Tribute to President Ford | GovInfo
product 67 12.4× 929
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/anniversary-loc
217th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Library of Congress | GovInfo
pricing 67 12.1× 910 💰 Pricing
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/june-2018-release
June 2018 Release Notes | GovInfo
pricing 67 11.3× 1039 💰 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
/features/ 160 50 0% 33.2× High JS Bloat
/about/ 10 59 0% 62.9× High JS Bloat
/developers/ 2 62 0% 15.5× High JS Bloat
/contact/ 2 46 0% 22.9× High JS Bloat
/case-studies/ 1 49 0% 39.4× High JS Bloat
/blog/ 1 49 0% 39.4× High JS Bloat
/error/ 1 33 1% 106.4× Bot Blocked
/page-not-found/ 1 33 1% 106.5× Bot Blocked
/tags/ 1 46 0% 45.4× High JS Bloat
/related-documents/ 1 67 0% 10.5× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 49 0% 39.4× High JS Bloat
/docs/ 1 49 0% 39.4× High JS Bloat
/integrations/ 1 49 0% 39.4× High JS Bloat
/feeds/ 1 67 0% 10.5× High JS Bloat
/digital-preservation/ 1 49 0% 37.5× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 188 pages
surveymonkey.com ×188
amt.coretrustseal.org ×188
api.govinfo.gov ×188
gpo.gov ×188
iso16363.org ×188
bookstore.gpo.gov ×24
github.com ×20
loc.gov ×20
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

How often would an AI cite govinfo.gov when users ask about topics in this domain's niche? We run entity queries through our 188k-page search index and measure citation probability.

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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.

49
Homepage ACRI
51
Inner Avg ACRI
-2
ACRI Delta
20%
Homepage Ghost
24%
Inner Avg Ghost
3
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
23 60% about https://www.govinfo.gov/about/metrics
46 40% support https://govinfo.gov/contact
46 40% about https://www.govinfo.gov/about/us-gov-info
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 30/100

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
🔗

Citation Profile

24 DOMAINS

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

106
Total Links
24
Unique Domains
7.1
Avg/Page
23%
Diversity
gpo.gov iso16363.org api.govinfo.gov surveymonkey.com amt.coretrustseal.org ecfr.gov fdlp.gov ask.gpo.gov github.com iso.org
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 1.5

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for govinfo.gov:

Current Score
79
Projected Score
95
Improvement
+16 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 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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Track in My Site
Internal Linking
Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
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Thin/duplicate tracking

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