patch.com 56 D
🛡️ SEO 29 🤖 GEO 70 ⚡ Perf 39 🏗️ Arch 83

patch.com — Global SEODiff Score 56/100

patch.com
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patch.com scores 62/100 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 patch.com above the industry average of 58 —, suggesting strong competitive positioning in AI search. Server-side rendering keeps the ghost ratio near zero, giving AI systems direct access to all visible content. The 9.3× token bloat ratio falls within the normal range, though there is room to trim navigation, footer, and script overhead. Zero schema blocks puts this site at a disadvantage in knowledge graph and AI-answer pipelines that rely on explicit structured data. Some AI crawlers are permitted while others are blocked — a mixed robots.txt policy that limits visibility in certain AI ecosystems.

56
D — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Below average — Traditional SEO (29) needs urgent attention.
🎯 Top Fix: Add Organization + WebSite JSON-LD → +5–8 pts
🔬 Automated SEODiff Assessment · Snapshot: Feb 26, 2026 · 📋 API
📈 ACRI Trend 22 snapshots
Feb 22 Feb 26
🔔 Recent AI Indexing Activity
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)29 × 0.25 = 7.2
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)70 × 0.40 = 28.0
⚡ Performance (20% weight)39 × 0.20 = 7.8
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)83 × 0.15 = 12.4
Weighted sum = 7.2 + 28.0 + 7.8 + 12.4
Global SEODiff Score = 56 (D)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
80
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
31
Structure
avg 36
0
Schema
avg 9
70
Tech Stack
avg 63
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Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #3971
+50 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 50%
Score 62/100

patch.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 patch.com ranks here

Tech stackNext.js
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage0 blocks
Token bloat9.3×

Fastest improvements

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

29/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

60 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

86 chars
Too short

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✗ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 0
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 41
  • ✗ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — Patch - Everything Local: Breaking News, Events, Discussions
  • ✓ og:description — The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
  • ✓ 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

70/100 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 →
patch.com
45
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)
Blocked
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 31/100 — Low
Structured Elements 88 elements (88 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words3030
Raw Density2.9%
💡Low structure score (31/100). Your content appears as a wall of text with few structured HTML elements. You have 88 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

45
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
Low
Blocklist Risk
Extractability45/100 — AI models can partially extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (65/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskLow — 1 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

10%
🗑️ 90%
Useful Content (35.2 KB)Bloat (290.3 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio9.3× — Normal

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context100% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage137 / 137 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: 89.2% · SNR: 0.12 · Signal: 9005 / Noise: 74306 tokens

🔬 AI-Crawler Simulation

See your website the way AI crawlers do. CSS stripped, structure labeled, content chunked.

🌐
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.
🤖

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…
🧠

The LLM Interpretation

AI-VERIFIED

A local LLM (mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit) analyzed the extracted content of patch.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
Community news and engagement platform
Target Audience
Community members, local businesses, residents
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
📊 Content Depth
3/10
⚡ Key Pain Points
• No pricing model mentioned
• No integration partners listed
• No compliance standards mentioned
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

FrameworkNext.js
AI-Readiness Score70/100
ServerHeroku
CDN
HTTP Status200
Load Time1117 ms
Raw HTML Size325.4 KB
Visible Text Size35.2 KB

Performance & Speed

39/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

1117 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

1749
DOM nodes
325 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → public, max-age=300
  • ✗ 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
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.

🏗️

Architecture & Trust

83/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://patch.com/sm/sm-h-48.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✓ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

220
internal links
7
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 45/100. Reach 80+ to unlock the green "AI-Verified" badge. Fix the issues below to improve your score.

AI-Verified badge for patch.com
Pending Audit — score below 80 threshold
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 453 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
45
Single-page score
+4
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
49
Avg across 453 pages · Range 30–56
Topical Cohesion
8%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
460387
Avg Bloat
79.4×
RAG Fractures [?]
358
⚠️
358 RAG-Chunking Fractures Detected

Poorly formatted tables or pricing grids on 358 pages will be split incorrectly during RAG chunking, causing AI models to hallucinate prices and features.

Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://patch.com/about
About Patch
about 56 26.0× 506
https://patch.com/rhode-island/narragansett
Narragansett-South Kingstown News, Breaking News in Narragansett-South Kingstown, RI
pricing 53 69.3× 1018 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/rhode-island/woonsocket
Woonsocket News, Breaking News in Woonsocket, RI
other 53 56.5× 1113 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/massachusetts/attleboro
Attleboro News, Breaking News in Attleboro, MA
other 53 50.7× 1483 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/rhode-island/tiverton
Tiverton-Little Compton News, Breaking News in Tiverton-Little Compton, RI
other 53 74.3× 766 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/whiteplains
White Plains News, Breaking News in White Plains, NY
other 53 61.9× 1186 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/pleasantville
Pleasantville-Briarcliff Manor News, Breaking News in Pleasantville-Briarcliff Manor, NY
other 53 85.7× 652 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/ossining
Ossining-Croton-On-Hudson News, Breaking News in Ossining-Croton-On-Hudson, NY
other 53 76.9× 893 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/newrochelle
New Rochelle News, Breaking News in New Rochelle, NY
pricing 53 60.6× 1592 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-jersey/madison
Madison News, Breaking News in Madison, NJ
pricing 53 52.4× 1911 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-jersey/millburn
Millburn-Short Hills News, Breaking News in Millburn-Short Hills, NJ
pricing 53 67.8× 1591 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-jersey/millburn/calendar
Millburn-Short Hills Events Calendar for February 26, 2026 - Millburn-Short Hills, NJ Patch
pricing 53 95.2× 582 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-jersey/maplewood
Maplewood News, Breaking News in Maplewood, NJ
pricing 53 57.3× 1728 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/connecticut/ridgefield
Ridgefield News, Breaking News in Ridgefield, CT
pricing 53 64.4× 1547 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/nyack
Nyack-Piermont News, Breaking News in Nyack-Piermont, NY
pricing 53 61.5× 1498 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/missouri/clayton-richmondheights
Clayton-Richmond Heights News, Breaking News in Clayton-Richmond Heights, MO
other 53 75.5× 681 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/illinois/niles
Niles-Morton Grove News, Breaking News in Niles-Morton Grove, IL
pricing 53 59.5× 1479 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/new-york/bayside
Bayside-Douglaston News, Breaking News in Bayside-Douglaston, NY
other 53 80.7× 983 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/virginia/herndon
Herndon News, Breaking News in Herndon, VA
pricing 53 57.8× 2833 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
https://patch.com/virginia/mountvernon/calendar
Mount Vernon Events Calendar for February 26, 2026 - Mount Vernon, VA Patch
pricing 53 82.8× 560 ⚠️ RAG Fracture
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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
/new-york/ 116 47 1% 81.7× Bot Blocked
/illinois/ 76 50 1% 75.2× Bot Blocked
/california/ 68 49 1% 80.8× Bot Blocked
/new-jersey/ 44 51 1% 75.5× Bot Blocked
/massachusetts/ 40 49 1% 78.8× Bot Blocked
/maryland/ 36 48 1% 78.7× Bot Blocked
/virginia/ 26 51 1% 73.7× Bot Blocked
/connecticut/ 22 51 1% 76.8× Bot Blocked
/rhode-island/ 20 45 1% 96.6× Bot Blocked
/district-columbia/ 2 52 1% 75.6× Bot Blocked
/missouri/ 2 43 1% 124.6× Bot Blocked
/about/ 1 56 0% 26.0× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 453 pages
apps.apple.com ×453
play.google.com ×453
instagram.com ×453
twitter.com ×453
facebook.com ×453
linkedin.com ×453
maps.google.com ×226
pineisland.org ×224
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🎭

Bait & Switch Delta

D 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.

56
Homepage ACRI
33
Inner Avg ACRI
+23
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
64%
Inner Avg Ghost
44
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
39 90% pricing https://patch.com/california/manhattanbeach/calendar
30 80% other https://patch.com/new-york/newhydepark/calendar
33 60% other https://patch.com/new-york/bellmore/calendar
🛡️

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
Address: 100 Everendon Rd, Canton Make your event the talk of the town Start now Fast · Local · Affordabl
🔗

Citation Profile

6 DOMAINS

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

90
Total Links
6
Unique Domains
6.0
Avg/Page
7%
Diversity
twitter.com instagram.com apps.apple.com play.google.com linkedin.com facebook.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 77.0

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

Auto-generated code fixes tailored to patch.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": "Patch",
  "url": "https://patch.com",
  "logo": "https://cdn.patchcdn.com/assets/layout/icons/logo/favicon.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": "Patch",
  "url": "https://patch.com",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://patch.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 Patch?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Add your answer here — describe what Patch does in 1-2 sentences."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does Patch work?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Explain the key features and how users interact with Patch."
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
📈

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

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

Current Score
62
Projected Score
78
Improvement
+16 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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Track in My Site
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Track in My Site
Internal Linking
Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
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Thin/duplicate tracking

🕒 History

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Drift eventsTemplate timeline + incidents
Drift → Revenue AttributionComing soon
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