knightlab.com 61 C
🛡️ SEO 22 🤖 GEO 72 ⚡ Perf 94 🏗️ Arch 50

knightlab.com — Global SEODiff Score 61/100

knightlab.com
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knightlab.com currently sits at 64/100 on the ACRI scale, an average result that suggests several quick wins remain untapped. Compared to other education sites (avg score: 57), knightlab.com performs above the benchmark, 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. The token bloat ratio sits at a lean 1.3×, meaning the ratio of code to visible content is efficient — crawlers spend their token budget on actual information. 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.

61
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Traditional SEO (22) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)22 × 0.25 = 5.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)72 × 0.40 = 28.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)94 × 0.20 = 18.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)50 × 0.15 = 7.5
Weighted sum = 5.5 + 28.8 + 18.8 + 7.5
Global SEODiff Score = 61 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
19
Structure
avg 35
0
Schema
avg 10
50
Tech Stack
avg 64
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 1%
Rank #14140
+44 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 45%
Score 64/100

knightlab.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 knightlab.com ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
Industryeducation
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat1.3×

Fastest improvements

  • Add basic Organization and WebSite JSON-LD to fix “0 schema blocks” (see Schema Coverage).
  • 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

22/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

10 chars
Too short

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 9
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Knight Lab
  • ✓ og:description — Advancing media through exploration and experimentation.
  • ✓ og:image — preview
  • ✗ 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

72/100 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 education sector, rndirectors.com (ACRI: 85) 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 →
knightlab.com
41
Your ACRI Score
85
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. rndirectors.com has schema coverage of 4 blocks and uses WordPress. 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 19/100 — Poor
Structured Elements 11 elements (11 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1025
Raw Density1.1%
💡Low structure score (19/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 11 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 ❌ 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

50
AI Extractability
Low
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability50/100 — 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

76%
🗑️ 24%
Useful Content (54.5 KB)Bloat (17.5 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio1.3× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context0% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage0 / 8 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 0% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

93 Entropy
Good Token Bloat: Low
Noise Ratio: 24.3% · SNR: 3.11 · Signal: 13951 / Noise: 4486 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

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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.
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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…

🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score50/100
Servernginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time31 ms
Raw HTML Size72.0 KB
Visible Text Size54.5 KB

Performance & Speed

94/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

31 ms
Excellent — server responds instantly

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

📦 Page Weight

358
DOM nodes
72 KB
HTML payload
Lean page — fast for bots and users

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✗ Cache-Control header
  • ✗ CDN cache status
  • ✗ CDN detected

🔬 Tracker Tax

1
tracker scripts
1
third-party domains
0.0%
token overhead
Minimal tracker load — clean signal for bots
googletagmanager.com
📐 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

50/100 15 % of Global Score 🟡 Medium Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✗ Sitemap declared in robots.txt
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

36
internal links
19
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 41/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for knightlab.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 10 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
41
Single-page score
+23
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 10 pages · Range 64–64
Total Words
9610
Avg Bloat
15.3×
Ext. Citations
21
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://knightlab.com/pricing
Knight Lab
pricing 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/about
Knight Lab
about 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/products
Knight Lab
product 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/features
Knight Lab
product 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/blog
Knight Lab
blog 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/docs
Knight Lab
docs 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/case-studies
Knight Lab
social-proof 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/contact
Knight Lab
support 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/faq
Knight Lab
support 64 15.3× 961
https://knightlab.com/integrations
Knight Lab
integrations 64 15.3× 961
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Outbound External Citations
21 unique external domains cited across 10 pages
zachwise.com ×10
scene.knightlab.com ×10
groups.google.com ×10
storyline.knightlab.com ×10
guides.knightlab.com ×10
github.com ×10
goo.gl ×10
mccormick.northwestern.edu ×10
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to knightlab.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": "Knightlab",
  "url": "https://knightlab.com",
  "logo": "https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/orangeline/latest/assets/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png",
  "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": "Knightlab",
  "url": "https://knightlab.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://knightlab.com/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 Knightlab?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Knightlab does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Knightlab work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Knightlab."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
64
Projected Score
77
Improvement
+13 pts
Add Organization schema +6 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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