mediavine.com 67 C
🛡️ SEO 67 🤖 GEO 71 ⚡ Perf 43 🏗️ Arch 86

mediavine.com — Global SEODiff Score 67/100

mediavine.com
📊

The AI-Readiness profile for mediavine.com is strong: an ACRI of 77/100 places it ahead of 86% of domains in the index. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places mediavine.com above the industry average of 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. Heavy markup overhead (18.9× bloat) forces AI systems to wade through excess code before finding useful information. Only 1 schema block is present — adding Organization, WebSite, and Breadcrumb schemas would significantly improve structured data coverage. The site maintains an open-door policy for AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other major agents are all allowed.

67
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (43) is your bottleneck.
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📈 ACRI Trend 28 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)67 × 0.25 = 16.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)71 × 0.40 = 28.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)43 × 0.20 = 8.6
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)86 × 0.15 = 12.9
Weighted sum = 16.8 + 28.4 + 8.6 + 12.9
Global SEODiff Score = 67 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
36
Structure
avg 36
42
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.3%
Rank #3243
+14 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 14%
Score 77/100

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

Why mediavine.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat18.9×

Fastest improvements

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

Running headless browser to simulate AI extraction…
🛡️

Traditional SEO

67/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

20 chars
Too short

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 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 13
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Homepage
  • ✓ og:description — Smarter Monetization Starts Here Mediavine powers digital businesses with technology and data engineered to outperform. Our platform delivers cleaner delivery, stronger revenue, and long-term performance for publishers building what’s next. Trusted by 17,000+ publishers, built on technology proven to perform One Platform Built to Outperform Mediavine gives digital publishers a competitive advantage with technology designed...
  • ✓ 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

71/100 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 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 →
mediavine.com
54
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.
📊 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 36/100 — Low
Structured Elements 38 elements (38 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words956
Raw Density4.0%
💡Low structure score (36/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 38 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 ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

3/7 schema types detected
✅ Organization
❌ Product/Service
✅ Breadcrumb
❌ FAQ
❌ Article
✅ WebSite
💡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.
💡FAQ schema missing. Adding FAQPage schema lets AI models directly extract Q&A pairs for Featured Snippets and chatbot answers.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

52
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability52/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (40/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

5%
🗑️ 95%
Useful Content (9.2 KB)Bloat (164.9 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio18.9× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context17% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage4 / 24 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Only 17% of images have alt text. Add descriptive alt attributes so multimodal AI (ChatGPT Vision) can understand your images.

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

0 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 94.7% · SNR: 0.06 · Signal: 2356 / Noise: 42206 tokens

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This is what humans see — styled, branded, visual.
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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.

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🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of mediavine.com 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
Full-service ad management for content creators
Target Audience
Content creators, digital publishers
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
Unparalleled support team, technology, and educational resources for content creators
📊 Content Depth
5/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No pricing model mentioned
• No integration partners listed
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

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
ServerBigScoots Gateway/1.0.0
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time2927 ms
Raw HTML Size174.1 KB
Visible Text Size9.2 KB

Performance & Speed

43/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2927 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

730
DOM nodes
174 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → 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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

86/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.mediavine.com/sitemap_index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

50
internal links
5
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 718 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
54
Single-page score
+10
Subpages outperform homepage
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 718 pages · Range 31–90
Topical Cohesion
9%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
834980
Avg Bloat
66.1×
RAG Fractures [?]
22
⚠️
22 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 22 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.mediavine.com/blog/state-of-the-vine-mediavine-updates-yes-trellis-is-coming/
State of the Vine: Mediavine Updates (Yes, Trellis is Coming) - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.1× 14107 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/stepping-up-your-seo-game-podcast-transcript/
Stepping Up Your SEO Game with Joshua Unseth and Morgan McBride: Mediavine On Air Episode 3 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.2× 13947 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/taxes-for-bloggers-podcast-transcript/
Taxes for Bloggers with Amy Northard | Mediavine On Air Episode 38 - Mediavine
pricing 90 4.2× 8914 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/work-from-home-wellness-blog-transcript/
Work From Home Wellness with Litsa Williams, Eleanor Haley and TQ Evans | Mediavine On Air Episode 30 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.5× 11654 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/photographing-for-pageviews-podcast-transcript/
Photographing for Pageviews with Stephanie Keeping and Melodee Fiske: Mediavine On Air Episode 21 - Mediavine
pricing 90 4.1× 9403 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/spring-cleaning-your-website-podcast-transcript/
Spring Cleaning Your Website with Jacob Feltner and Lauren Gray | Mediavine On Air Episode 45 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.7× 11075 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/unlocking-rpm-podcast-transcript/
Unlocking RPM with Aimee Shugarman & Courtney O'Dell: Mediavine On Air Episode 11 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.8× 9664 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/whats-next-for-blogging-podcast-transcript/
What's Next For Blogging with Eric Hochberger | Mediavine On Air Episode 51 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.4× 12139 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/seo-google-pro-podcast-transcript/
SEO Like A Google Pro with John Mueller | Mediavine On Air Episode 34 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.7× 10801 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/spooky-sweet-land-podcast-transcript/
The Spooky Sweet Land of Money with the Support Team | Mediavine On Air Episode 31 - Mediavine
pricing 90 3.7× 11124 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/blog/publisher-interview-lia-garcia-of-practical-wanderlust/
Publisher Interview: Lia Garcia of Practical Wanderlust - Mediavine
pricing 85 8.8× 3593 💰 Pricing
https://www.mediavine.com/mediavine-university-terms-of-use/
Mediavine University Terms of Use - Mediavine
legal 85 6.2× 4045
https://www.mediavine.com/ad-mgmt-dpa/
Mediavine Data Processing Agreement - Advertising Management - Mediavine
other 85 8.4× 2943
https://www.mediavine.com/video-player-terms-of-service/
Video Player Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 8.7× 2700
https://www.mediavine.com/mediavine-video-player-terms-of-service/
Mediavine Video Player Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 8.8× 2732
https://www.mediavine.com/create-terms-of-service/
Create by Mediavine Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 9.9× 2317
https://www.mediavine.com/cmp-terms-of-service/
CMP Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 9.6× 2376
https://www.mediavine.com/terms-of-service-old/
Mediavine Website Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 10.0× 2357
https://www.mediavine.com/mediavine-marketplace-terms-of-services/
Mediavine Marketplace Terms of Services - Mediavine
legal 85 6.7× 3682
https://www.mediavine.com/grow-terms-of-service/
Grow by Mediavine Terms of Service - Mediavine
legal 85 7.8× 3036
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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
/blog/ 430 69 0% 23.5× High JS Bloat
/newsroom/ 36 65 0% 40.0× High JS Bloat
/case-study/ 16 68 0% 22.8× High JS Bloat
/advent-calendar/ 1 67 0% 26.1× High JS Bloat
/grow-terms-of-service/ 1 85 0% 7.8× High JS Bloat
/brand-assets/ 1 67 0% 28.7× High JS Bloat
/sweet-land-of-money/ 1 67 0% 29.0× High JS Bloat
/the-value-of-independent-publishers/ 1 67 0% 27.4× High JS Bloat
/audience_post/ 1 64 0% 31.6× High JS Bloat
/audience/ 1 64 0% 32.9× High JS Bloat
/ad-mgmt-dpa/ 1 85 0% 8.4× High JS Bloat
/mediavine-video-player-terms-of-service/ 1 85 0% 8.8× High JS Bloat
/ad-partners/ 1 72 0% 16.4× High JS Bloat
/ai/ 1 67 0% 26.5× High JS Bloat
/create-terms-of-service/ 1 85 0% 9.9× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 718 pages
publishers.mediavine.com ×717
youtube.com ×714
x.com ×713
status.mediavine.com ×713
instagram.com ×713
linkedin.com ×713
help.mediavine.com ×713
facebook.com ×713
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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.

54
Homepage ACRI
60
Inner Avg ACRI
-6
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
39%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
64 40% blog https://www.mediavine.com/blog/diversity-audit/
54 40% blog https://www.mediavine.com/blog/optimized-ad-experience/
64 40% pricing https://mediavine.com/case-studies
🛡️

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: Eric Hochberger, Eric Hochberger, The Mediavine Team
🔗

Citation Profile

21 DOMAINS

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

143
Total Links
21
Unique Domains
9.5
Avg/Page
15%
Diversity
facebook.com help.mediavine.com publishers.mediavine.com linkedin.com status.mediavine.com youtube.com instagram.com x.com api.whatsapp.com telegram.me
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 54.5

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to mediavine.com. Copy and paste these into your codebase to improve AI visibility. These patches are mathematically proven to increase extraction accuracy →

Reduce Token Bloat
Medium Impact ⏱ 1–2 hrs
Only 5% 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 Mediavine?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Mediavine does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Mediavine work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Mediavine."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
77
Projected Score
85
Improvement
+8 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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