lemonde.fr 56 D
🛡️ SEO 45 🤖 GEO 69 ⚡ Perf 16 🏗️ Arch 95

lemonde.fr — Global SEODiff Score 56/100

lemonde.fr
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lemonde.fr scores 48/100 on the AI-Readiness Index, placing it in the middle tier of indexed domains — there is clear room for improvement. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places lemonde.fr below the industry average of 57 —, indicating room for competitive improvement. While the majority of content is server-rendered, the 15% ghost ratio suggests some content remains invisible to static crawlers. Token bloat registers at 8.1× — 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. Most AI crawlers are blocked by robots.txt, severely restricting how AI-powered search engines can index and surface this content.

56
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Performance (16) needs urgent attention.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)45 × 0.25 = 11.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)69 × 0.40 = 27.6
⚡ Performance (20% weight)16 × 0.20 = 3.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)95 × 0.15 = 14.2
Weighted sum = 11.2 + 27.6 + 3.2 + 14.2
Global SEODiff Score = 56 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
40
Bot Access
avg 92
94
Rendering
avg 93
38
Structure
avg 35
2
Schema
avg 10
50
Tech Stack
avg 64
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.1%
Rank #697
+55 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 55%
Score 48/100

lemonde.fr 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 lemonde.fr ranks here

Tech stackCustom / Proprietary
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat8.1×

Fastest improvements

  • Allow ClaudeBot (many assistants rely on it) — blocking it often correlates with “AI invisibility.”
  • 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

45/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

61 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

174 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

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

🔍 Indexability

  • ✓ Canonical tag present → https://www.lemonde.fr
  • ✓ No noindex directive
  • ✓ Meta viewport set
  • ✓ HTML lang attribute → fr
  • ✓ Hreflang tags
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed by robots.txt

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Le Monde - Toute l’actualité en continu
  • ✓ og:description — International, Economie, Environnement … La référence, partout, tout le temps.
  • ✓ 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

69/100 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, safely.co.jp (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 →
lemonde.fr
43
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. safely.co.jp has schema coverage of 3 blocks and uses WordPress. Improve your score by implementing the remediation patches below.
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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.

Analyzing hallucination risk…

🤖 Bot Access Matrix

GPTBot (OpenAI)
Allowed
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Blocked
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡ClaudeBot is blocked. To be cited by Claude, allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt.

👻 Rendering (Ghost Ratio) Docs

Ghost Ratio 15%
0% — Safe 50% 100% — Risk
Status Server-Side Rendered (Safe)
Rendering Type Hybrid

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 38/100 — Low
Structured Elements 394 elements (394 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words9166
Raw Density4.3%
💡Low structure score (38/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 394 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 Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

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

48
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
High
Blocklist Risk
Extractability48/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostHigh (70/100) — expensive for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskHigh — 3 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

12%
🗑️ 88%
Useful Content (86.7 KB)Bloat (613.9 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio8.1× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context70% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage94 / 135 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: 87.6% · SNR: 0.14 · Signal: 22207 / Noise: 157168 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
Server
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time2078 ms
Raw HTML Size700.7 KB
Visible Text Size86.7 KB

Performance & Speed

16/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2078 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

4049
DOM nodes
701 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → private, must-revalidate, max-age=0
  • ✗ 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

95/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.lemonde.fr/sitemap_news.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✗ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

787
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 → fr
  • ✓ 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 43/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for lemonde.fr
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 3 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
43
Single-page score
-1
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
42
Avg across 3 pages · Range 22–72
Topical Cohesion
1%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
4765
Avg Bloat
77.1×
Ext. Citations
31
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://lemonde.fr/blog
Débats - Actualités, vidéos et infos en direct
pricing 72 23.6× 4592 💰 Pricing
https://lemonde.fr/contact
Le Monde.fr - Contact
support 32 62.8× 149
https://lemonde.fr/faq
Le Monde
pricing 22 145.0× 24 💰 Pricing
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Outbound External Citations
31 unique external domains cited across 3 pages
moncompte.lemonde.fr ×3
boutique.lemonde.fr ×3
secure.lemonde.fr ×3
evenements-abonnes.lemonde.fr ×2
huffingtonpost.fr ×1
lemonde.arsmundi.de ×1
instagram.com ×1
jeux.lemonde.fr ×1
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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to lemonde.fr. 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": "Lemonde",
  "url": "https://lemonde.fr",
  "logo": "https://www.lemonde.fr/bucket/resources/front/img/logos/favicon.e92b44c2b7f5c147.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": "Lemonde",
  "url": "https://lemonde.fr",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://lemonde.fr/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow ClaudeBot in robots.txt
Medium Impact ⏱ 2 min
ClaudeBot is blocked — Claude cannot cite your content. Many AI assistants rely on it.
text
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
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 Lemonde?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Lemonde does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Lemonde work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Lemonde."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for lemonde.fr:

Current Score
48
Projected Score
69
Improvement
+21 pts
Allow ClaudeBot +5 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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