nhl.com 61 C
🛡️ SEO 46 🤖 GEO 73 ⚡ Perf 27 🏗️ Arch 100

nhl.com — Global SEODiff Score 61/100

nhl.com
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At 76/100, the ACRI for nhl.com indicates strong fundamentals in AI extractability, surpassing the majority of indexed sites. Compared to other infrastructure sites (avg score: 58), nhl.com performs above the benchmark, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. The rendering approach is hybrid, with a moderate ghost ratio of 15% — most content is accessible without JS, though some elements are client-rendered. Token bloat registers at 11.1× — acceptable, but reducing inline scripts and redundant markup could yield measurable gains. The site includes 2 schema blocks, providing adequate structured data for basic entity recognition. 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 Performance (27) is your bottleneck.
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📈 ACRI Trend 24 snapshots
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)46 × 0.25 = 11.5
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)73 × 0.40 = 29.2
⚡ Performance (20% weight)27 × 0.20 = 5.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)100 × 0.15 = 15.0
Weighted sum = 11.5 + 29.2 + 5.4 + 15.0
Global SEODiff Score = 61 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
100
Bot Access
avg 92
94
Rendering
avg 93
43
Structure
avg 36
44
Schema
avg 9
75
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.3%
Rank #3296
+17 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 17%
Score 76/100

nhl.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 nhl.com ranks here

Tech stackCloudflare Pages
RenderingHybrid
Schema coverage2 blocks
Token bloat11.1×

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🧪

JavaScript Rendering Check

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

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Traditional SEO

46/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

53 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

104 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 13
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Official Site of the National Hockey League | NHL.com
  • ✓ og:description — The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.
  • ✓ 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

73/100 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 →
nhl.com
58
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.

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

📊 Structure & Information Density Docs

Structure Grade 43/100 — Fair
Structured Elements 70 elements (70 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1280
Raw Density5.5%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks2 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

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
Medium
Crawl Cost
None
Blocklist Risk
Extractability56/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskNone — 0 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

9%
🗑️ 91%
Useful Content (24.7 KB)Bloat (248.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio11.1× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage81 / 81 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: 91.0% · SNR: 0.10 · Signal: 6332 / Noise: 63679 tokens

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AI Answer Preview

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🔧 Tech Stack

AI-Readiness Score75/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time2507 ms
Raw HTML Size273.5 KB
Visible Text Size24.7 KB

Performance & Speed

27/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2507 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2151
DOM nodes
274 KB
HTML payload
Moderate weight — acceptable for most scenarios

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=60
  • ✓ CDN cache status → HIT
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 Tracker Tax

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

100/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.nhl.com/sitemap/sitemap-index.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

151
internal links
11
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.

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� Deep Crawl Analysis 789 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
58
Single-page score
-13
Moderate hidden bloat
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
46
Avg across 789 pages · Range 23–82
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Hidden Bloat Detected

Homepage scores 58, but internal pages average only 46 — a -13-point gap. Blogs, docs, and legacy content are dragging down AI readability site-wide.

Topical Cohesion
7%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
498087
Avg Bloat
174.8×
RAG Fractures [?]
19
⚠️
19 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 19 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.nhl.com/oilers/team/terms-of-use
Terms of Use | Edmonton Oilers
about 82 3.6× 8447
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/terms-and-conditions
Buffalo Sabres Terms and Conditions | Buffalo Sabres
pricing 82 4.7× 4096 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.nhl.com/devils/team/terms-of-use
Devils Terms of Use | New Jersey Devils
pricing 82 4.1× 9780 💰 Pricing
https://www.nhl.com/ducks/team/all-time-trades
Official Anaheim Ducks Website | Anaheim Ducks
about 82 4.3× 6351
https://www.nhl.com/devils/team/devils-membership-terms-conditions
Devils Membership Terms and Conditions | New Jersey Devils
pricing 82 3.2× 11309 💰 Pricing
https://www.nhl.com/islanders/team/transactions
Islanders Transactions | New York Islanders
about 82 4.2× 8793
https://www.nhl.com/avalanche/team/executive-staff
Official Colorado Avalanche Website | Colorado Avalanche
about 82 4.4× 6105
https://www.nhl.com/foundation/about
NHL Foundations | NHL.com
pricing 77 8.0× 2546 💰 Pricing
https://www.nhl.com/canadiens/team/purchase-agreement
Purchase Agreement | Montréal Canadiens
about 77 8.6× 2409
https://www.nhl.com/ducks/team/hat-tricks-penalty-shots-shutouts
Official Anaheim Ducks Website | Anaheim Ducks
about 77 5.3× 5039
https://www.nhl.com/flames/team/terms-of-use
Official Calgary Flames Website | Calgary Flames
about 77 8.8× 2642 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.nhl.com/kings/team/coaching-staff
Official Los Angeles Kings Website | Los Angeles Kings
about 77 10.0× 2019
https://www.nhl.com/predators/team/partner-summit
Partner Summit 2025 | Nashville Predators
pricing 77 8.7× 6201 💰 Pricing
https://www.nhl.com/redwings/team/centennial-dominance-era
Official Detroit Red Wings Website | Detroit Red Wings
about 77 9.1× 2807
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/all-time-draft-selections
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
about 77 9.9× 5371 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/all-time-jersey-numbers
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
about 77 9.6× 1859
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/hat-tricks
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
about 77 6.7× 4765
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/overtime-goals
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
about 77 8.0× 3297
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/shutouts
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
about 77 7.6× 4629
https://www.nhl.com/sabres/team/sms-terms-and-conditions
Official Buffalo Sabres Website | Buffalo Sabres
pricing 77 7.1× 2368 💰 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
/sabres/ 61 58 0% 36.7× High JS Bloat
/bruins/ 42 53 0% 59.0× High JS Bloat
/blues/ 36 48 0% 74.6× High JS Bloat
/ducks/ 27 53 0% 53.0× High JS Bloat
/canadiens/ 26 47 0% 85.4× High JS Bloat
/blackhawks/ 26 49 0% 81.9× High JS Bloat
/devils/ 26 59 0% 37.0× High JS Bloat
/bluejackets/ 25 49 0% 62.8× High JS Bloat
/penguins/ 22 50 0% 53.4× High JS Bloat
/kraken/ 21 42 0% 114.9× High JS Bloat
/redwings/ 16 56 0% 44.6× High JS Bloat
/sharks/ 15 56 0% 40.0× High JS Bloat
/rangers/ 14 47 0% 70.8× High JS Bloat
/predators/ 14 58 0% 58.8× High JS Bloat
/kings/ 13 49 0% 69.7× High JS Bloat
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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.

26
Homepage ACRI
31
Inner Avg ACRI
-5
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
40%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
26 40% about https://nhl.com/about
26 40% product https://nhl.com/products
26 40% product https://nhl.com/features
🛡️

E-E-A-T Trust Signals

D 30/100

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
🔗

Citation Profile

56 DOMAINS

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

218
Total Links
56
Unique Domains
14.5
Avg/Page
26%
Diversity
facebook.com instagram.com youtube.com tiktok.com snapchat.com twitter.com threads.net photos.com privacyportal.onetrust.com twitch.tv
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 55.6

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to nhl.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 9% 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 Nhl?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Nhl does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Nhl work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Nhl."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
76
Projected Score
84
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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