hbs.edu 62 C
🛡️ SEO 47 🤖 GEO 66 ⚡ Perf 59 🏗️ Arch 77

hbs.edu — Global SEODiff Score 62/100

hbs.edu
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The AI-Readiness profile for hbs.edu is strong: an ACRI of 77/100 places it ahead of 86% of domains in the index. In the education sector, hbs.edu 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. A 50.0× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. The complete absence of JSON-LD schema is a missed opportunity: even basic Organization markup would improve how AI crawlers understand this domain. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

62
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (47) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (56×) → +5–10 pts
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)47 × 0.25 = 11.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)66 × 0.40 = 26.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)59 × 0.20 = 11.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)77 × 0.15 = 11.5
Weighted sum = 11.8 + 26.4 + 11.8 + 11.5
Global SEODiff Score = 62 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
75
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #3836
+14 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 14%
Score 77/100

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

Why hbs.edu ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat50×+

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

47/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

23 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

23 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 4
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Harvard Business School
  • ✓ og:description — Harvard Business School
  • ✗ 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.

🤖

AI Readiness / GEO

66/100 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.

🔗

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 →
hbs.edu
58
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 5%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type SSR

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 75/100 — Good
Structured Elements 164 elements (164 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words966
Raw Density17.0%

🏷️ 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

49
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability49/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (80/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

1%
🗑️ 99%
Useful Content (7.0 KB)Bloat (385.3 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio50×+ — Bloated

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context67% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage2 / 3 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 392.3 KB, but only 7.0 KB is text. 1% useful / 99% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (50×+) 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: 98.2% · SNR: 0.02 · Signal: 1797 / Noise: 98632 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.

Simulating AI extraction…
🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of hbs.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
Harvard Business School provides educational programs for leaders seeking to expand their knowledge and skills.
Target Audience
MBA students, doctoral students, executive leaders, online learners
Pricing Model
Variable; programs include tuition for MBA, doctoral, executive education, and online courses.
🏆 Competitive Moat
Reputation as a leading business school with a global network and research-driven approach.
📊 Content Depth
3/10
Model: mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-02-28 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
Servernginx
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time508 ms
Raw HTML Size392.3 KB
Visible Text Size7.0 KB

Performance & Speed

59/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

508 ms
Acceptable — room for improvement

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

📦 Page Weight

1335
DOM nodes
392 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, s-maxage=300, stale-if-error=7200
  • ✗ 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

77/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → http://www.hbs.edu/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

164
internal links
20
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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

Your site scores 58/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 53 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
58
Single-page score
-5
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
54
Avg across 53 pages · Range 19–77
Topical Cohesion
20%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
43810
Avg Bloat
1038.5×
RAG Fractures [?]
5
⚠️
5 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 5 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/sei-faculty-director-q-a.aspx
Q+A with New Social Enterprise Initiative Faculty Chair Shawn Cole and New Director Amelia Angella - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 77 8.3× 1634 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/shackleton-anniversary.aspx
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 77 6.6× 2281 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/rupal-gadhia-Q&A.aspx
Q&A With New Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Rupal Gadhia - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 77 9.4× 1387 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/2024-graduates-ec-course.aspx
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 77 5.3× 3038 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/weekend-sprints.aspx
Weekend Sprints: A New HBS Signature Event? - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 67 12.4× 1035 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/powerlifting-professor.aspx
The Powerlifting Professor - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 67 11.5× 1143 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/rajiv-lal-on-jcpenney.aspx
What went wrong at JC Penney? - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 67 11.1× 1176 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/emanuele-colonnelli-profile-2023.aspx
New Faculty Profiles: Emanuele Colonnelli - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 64 19.7× 627 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/sips-2024.aspx
SIPS 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to F1, Winter MBA Electives Offer Experimentation and Focus - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 64 14.9× 843 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/michael-lingzhi-li-profile-2023.aspx
New Faculty Profiles: Michael Lingzhi Li - News - Harvard Business School
pricing 59 22.5× 544 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/environment/blog/post/IFC-lego
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization - Blog - Business & Environment - Harvard Business School
pricing 59 20.3× 1415 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/insights-and-advice/blog/post/hiring-at-hbs-how-summer-interns-make-an-impact-at-bridges-fund-management
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting - Harvard Business School
pricing 59 25.2× 822 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/myth-busting-financial-aid-for-2-plus-2-students
Myth Busting: Financial Aid for 2+2 Students | MBA
pricing 57 465.5× 521 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/is-the-mba-worth-it
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say | MBA
pricing 57 62.4× 1647 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/harvard-mba-cost-scholarship-financial-aid-top-questions
Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS | MBA
pricing 57 156.1× 884 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/8-faqs-on-the-mba-application
8 FAQs on the MBA Application | MBA
pricing 57 361.5× 757 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/meet-the-hbs-african-american-student-union
Meet The HBS African American Student Union | MBA
pricing 57 148.2× 651 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/crossing-the-bridge-a-reflection-on-the-hks-hbs-joint-degree-program
Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program | MBA
pricing 57 159.1× 700 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/answering-your-questions-about-the-22-program
Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program | MBA
pricing 57 140.0× 682 💰 Pricing
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/my-one-case-mba-class-of-2023-looks-back
My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back | MBA
pricing 57 46.4× 2295 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
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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
/mba/ 32 50 1% 1681.6× Bot Blocked
/news/ 16 61 0% 22.5× High JS Bloat
/environment/ 1 59 0% 20.2× High JS Bloat
/recruiting/ 1 59 0% 25.2× High JS Bloat
/healthcare/ 1 56 0% 47.2× High JS Bloat
/about/ 1 39 1% 328.4× Bot Blocked
/contact/ 1 39 1% 446.0× Bot Blocked
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 53 pages
alumni.hbs.edu ×53
facebook.com ×53
accessibility.harvard.edu ×53
instagram.com ×53
community.alumni.harvard.edu ×53
youtube.com ×53
trademark.harvard.edu ×53
library.hbs.edu ×53
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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

F 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.

39
Homepage ACRI
36
Inner Avg ACRI
+3
ACRI Delta
90%
Homepage Ghost
64%
Inner Avg Ghost
100
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
47 90% pricing https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/blending-heritage-and-innovation-lisa-yan-mba-2025
47 90% pricing https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/hbs-application-tips-from-mba-admissions
19 90% pricing https://www.hbs.edu/mba/blog/post/what-makes-the-hbs-mba-unique
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

C 50/100

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: MBA Admissions, Lisa Yan
🔗

Citation Profile

26 DOMAINS

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

276
Total Links
26
Unique Domains
18.4
Avg/Page
9%
Diversity
library.hbs.edu accessibility.huit.harvard.edu youtube.com harvard.edu tiktok.com community.alumni.harvard.edu hbr.org facebook.com linkedin.com instagram.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 45.6

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to hbs.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": "Hbs",
  "url": "https://hbs.edu",
  "logo": "https://hbs.edu/static-assets/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": "Hbs",
  "url": "https://hbs.edu",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://hbs.edu/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 1% 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 Hbs?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Hbs does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Hbs work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Hbs."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
77
Projected Score
95
Improvement
+18 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 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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For owned domains, combine this world snapshot with private drift + regression history.
Template Drift
Track in My Site
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Track in My Site
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Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
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