montrealgazette.com 65 C
🛡️ SEO 67 🤖 GEO 62 ⚡ Perf 41 🏗️ Arch 99

montrealgazette.com — Global SEODiff Score 65/100

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montrealgazette.com shows strong AI visibility with an ACRI of 81/100, outperforming 95% of indexed domains. In the infrastructure sector, montrealgazette.com outperforms the average (57), 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 27.2× token bloat ratio means crawlers must process significantly more tokens to reach the actual content — a drag on extraction efficiency. Rich structured data (4 schema blocks) gives AI systems strong semantic signals for entity recognition and knowledge graph inclusion. 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 Performance (41) is your bottleneck.
🎯 Top Fix: Reduce token bloat (27×) → +5–10 pts
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📈 ACRI Trend 23 snapshots
Feb 22 Mar 3
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)67 × 0.25 = 16.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)62 × 0.40 = 24.8
⚡ Performance (20% weight)41 × 0.20 = 8.2
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)99 × 0.15 = 14.8
Weighted sum = 16.8 + 24.8 + 8.2 + 14.8
Global SEODiff Score = 65 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
100
Rendering
avg 93
50
Structure
avg 36
48
Schema
avg 9
85
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 2%
Rank #17194
Aligned
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 5%
Score 81/100

montrealgazette.com has balanced Google and AI visibility — both rank roughly in the same tier. ACRI measures technical crawler readiness. Read the methodology →

Why montrealgazette.com ranks here

Tech stackWordPress
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage4 blocks
Token bloat27.2×

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…
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Traditional SEO

67/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

42 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

144 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 16
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Montreal Gazette
  • ✗ og:description
  • ✓ 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

62/100 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, plodopitomnik-sad.ru (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 →
montrealgazette.com
62
Your ACRI Score
90
Industry Peer ACRI
AI models prioritize pages with strong semantic structure and schema coverage. plodopitomnik-sad.ru has schema coverage of 12 blocks and uses Express. 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.

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🤖 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 50/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 230 elements (230 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3056
Raw Density7.5%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks4 blocks

Schema Coverage Map

2/7 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.
💡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.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

56
AI Extractability
High
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability56/100 — 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

3%
🗑️ 97%
Useful Content (21.7 KB)Bloat (568.6 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio27.2× — Heavy

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context95% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage93 / 98 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set
💡Your HTML is 590.3 KB, but only 21.7 KB is text. 3% useful / 97% bloat. AI crawlers have limited context windows (e.g. 128k tokens). This level of bloat (27.2×) 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: 96.3% · SNR: 0.04 · Signal: 5558 / Noise: 145557 tokens

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The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of montrealgazette.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
The Montreal Gazette offers a digital subscription providing a full-featured replica of its printed newspaper, including stories, sections, photos, and
Target Audience
Readers of the Montreal Gazette, including current subscribers (both print and online), and potential new subscribers seeking digital access to news content.
Pricing Model
Monthly or annual subscriptions for both ePaper and Online Access, billed via major credit cards. Annual subscriptions are billed in advance for 12 months.
🔗 Integration Partners
PressReaderNewspaperDirect
🏆 Competitive Moat
Combination of a well-established local newspaper brand, a comprehensive digital replica of the print edition, and a user-friendly mobile app, offering a convenient and feature-rich digital news experience.
📊 Content Depth
6/10
🔄 Programmatic SEO Signals
http://epaper.montrealgazette.com/http://montrealgazette.com/
⚡ Key Pain Points
• Complex account management process (sign-in issues, password resets)
• Limited ability to put Online Access subscriptions on hold
• Tax credit limitations (no longer offering tax receipts since 2025)
• Difficulty for existing online subscribers to sign in to the App
Model: mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit · Analyzed: 2026-03-01 · Data extracted from the site’s main content via strict JSON prompting.

🔧 Tech Stack

FrameworkWordPress
AI-Readiness Score85/100
Serveristio-envoy
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time700 ms
Raw HTML Size590.3 KB
Visible Text Size21.7 KB

Performance & Speed

41/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

700 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

3041
DOM nodes
590 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=180
  • ✗ 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

99/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://montrealgazette.com/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

303
internal links
56
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

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 112 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
62
Single-page score
+1
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
64
Avg across 112 pages · Range 46–90
Topical Cohesion
12%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
130444
Avg Bloat
55.6×
RAG Fractures [?]
1
⚠️
1 RAG-Chunking Fracture Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 1 page will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://montrealgazette.com/faq
FAQ | Montreal Gazette
pricing 90 9.5× 3746 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/stus-slapshots-canadiens-family-will-get-bigger-with-baby-boom
Stu's Slapshots: Canadiens family will get bigger with baby boom | Montreal Gazette
pricing 72 16.5× 4000 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/hanes-neuro-william-cone-wilder-penfield-unsung-hero-montreal-great-forgotten-honour-due
Is it time to honour Montreal’s forgotten giant of neurosurgery? | Montreal Gazette
pricing 72 17.3× 3903 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/cowan-new-goalie-coach-net-positive
Cowan: Can new goalie coach get more out of Canadiens' netminders? | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 38.1× 1392 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/business/quebec-cant-shut-itself-off-from-english-speaking-talent-mcgill-president-says
Quebec can’t shut itself off from English-speaking talent: Deep Saini | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 39.3× 1386 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-right-chemistry-lots-of-longevity-regimens-one-stands-out-for-me
There are lots of longevity regimens. One stands out for me | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 32.6× 1642 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/hidden-game-caufield-scores-twice-dobes-holds-the-fort-as-canadiens-finally-defeat-capitals
Hidden Game: Caufield scores twice, Dobes holds the fort as Canadiens finally defeat Capitals | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 35.9× 1602 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/frechette-and-drainville-say-they-wont-water-down-quebecs-secularism-laws
Fréchette and Drainville say they won't water down Quebec's secularism laws | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 37.7× 1457 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/habs-mailbag-losing-arber-xhekaj-would-be-tough-for-canadiens
Habs Mailbag: Losing Arber Xhekaj would be tough for Canadiens | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 24.1× 2568 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/travel/travel-quebecers-spring-break-tips-cuba-mexico
Montrealers choosing Dominican Republic, Europe instead of Cuba for spring break | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 35.4× 1546 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/about-last-night-canadiens-cough-up-late-lead-in-4-3-ot-loss-to-islanders
About Last Night: Canadiens show rust in first game back from Olympics | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 38.5× 1457 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-montreal-general-hospital-choir-is-saved-and-its-members-shroud-of-stress-is-lifted
Brownstein: Montreal General Hospital choir is saved from extinction | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 29.5× 1918 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/hidden-game-canadiens-squander-two-goal-lead-in-ot-loss-to-islanders
Hidden Game: | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 36.2× 1611 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/return-of-winger-alex-newhook-gives-canadiens-a-lift-against-islanders
Canadiens will get boost against Islanders with return of Alex Newhook | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 38.1× 1409 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/go-habs-go-stm-buses
STM switches back to 'Go' in Habs messages on buses | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 38.5× 1402 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-doctor-humanistic-medicine-whole-person-care-mcgill
Montreal doctor's Craft of Medicine promotes whole-person care | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 32.5× 1685 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/montreal-canadiens/cowan-olympics-a-great-learning-experience-for-canadiens-nick-suzuki
Cowan: Olympics a great learning experience for Canadiens' Nick Suzuki | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 37.1× 1473 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-alexandre-sacha-trudeau-says-he-never-wanted-to-perform-in-any-way-so-stayed-out-of-politics
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau isn't out to follow Justin and Pierre's path | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 26.2× 2344 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/could-montreal-become-canadas-new-defence-industry-hub
Could Montreal become Canada's new defence industry hub? | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 34.5× 1626 💰 Pricing
https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/tragedy-on-quebec-ski-hill-raises-questions-about-chairlift-safety-and-emergency-plans
Tragedy on Quebec ski hill raises questions about chairlift safety | Montreal Gazette
pricing 67 26.8× 2116 💰 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
/news/ 64 62 0% 64.6× High JS Bloat
/sports/ 23 65 0% 42.7× High JS Bloat
/opinion/ 18 65 0% 44.9× High JS Bloat
/business/ 2 66 0% 42.7× High JS Bloat
/entertainment_life/ 2 64 0% 67.1× High JS Bloat
/travel/ 1 67 0% 35.4× High JS Bloat
/features/ 1 46 0% 34.8× High JS Bloat
/faq/ 1 90 0% 9.5× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 112 pages
twitter.com ×111
postmedia.store ×111
youtube.com ×111
postmedia.com ×111
obituariesmontrealgazette.adperfect.com ×111
montrealgazette.adperfect.com ×111
instagram.com ×111
working.montrealgazette.com ×111
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📊 Semantic Share of Voice

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Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to montrealgazette.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 3% 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 Montrealgazette?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Montrealgazette does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Montrealgazette work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Montrealgazette."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
81
Projected Score
89
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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