rte.ie 65 C
🛡️ SEO 51 🤖 GEO 81 ⚡ Perf 27 🏗️ Arch 93

rte.ie — Global SEODiff Score 65/100

rte.ie
📊

The AI-Readiness score for rte.ie is 64/100 — a middling result that leaves significant room to climb the Radar rankings. Within the infrastructure vertical, this places rte.ie 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. A tight 3.5× token bloat ratio reflects disciplined markup: minimal noise between the crawler and the content it needs. Minimal structured data (1 block) limits the site's ability to communicate entity relationships to AI systems. With only minimal AI bot access, the domain is largely invisible to the ecosystem of AI-driven discovery tools.

65
C — Global SEODiff Score
Comprehensive search visibility assessment
Strong foundations, but Performance (27) is your bottleneck.
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🧮 Score Transparency — How is this calculated?
🛡️ Traditional SEO (25% weight)51 × 0.25 = 12.8
🤖 AI Readiness / GEO (40% weight)81 × 0.40 = 32.4
⚡ Performance (20% weight)27 × 0.20 = 5.4
🏗️ Architecture & Trust (15% weight)93 × 0.15 = 13.9
Weighted sum = 12.8 + 32.4 + 5.4 + 13.9
Global SEODiff Score = 65 (C)
📊 ACRI Sub-Scores (AI Readiness Detail)
40
Bot Access
avg 92
99
Rendering
avg 93
65
Structure
avg 36
42
Schema
avg 9
75
Tech Stack
avg 63
🔀
Visibility Delta: Google vs AI
Google (Tranco)
Top 0.4%
Rank #3992
+47 pts
Gap
AI (ACRI)
Top 47%
Score 64/100

rte.ie 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 rte.ie ranks here

Tech stackCloudflare Pages
RenderingSSR
Schema coverage1 blocks
Token bloat3.5×

Fastest improvements

  • Allow GPTBot in robots.txt so AI crawlers can access your pages (see Crawl Access).
  • 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

51/100 25 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

📝 Title Tag

56 chars
Good length

Optimal range: 30–60 characters for SERP display.

📋 Meta Description

237 chars
Too long

Optimal range: 120–160 characters for snippet control.

🔤 Heading Hierarchy

  • ✓ Exactly 1 <h1> tag — found 1
  • ✓ Has <h2> headings — found 14
  • ✓ <h2> not before <h1>

🔍 Indexability

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

🌐 Social / OpenGraph

  • ✓ og:title — RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster
  • ✓ og:description — RTÉ news brings you the latest Irish news, world news, international news and up to the minute reports on breaking Irish news stories and news from around the world. Watch and listen to Irish news stories on our video and audio streams.
  • ✓ 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

81/100 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 →
rte.ie
60
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)
Blocked
ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
Allowed
CCBot (Common Crawl)
Blocked
Google-Extended
Blocked
Googlebot
Allowed
💡GPTBot is blocked. To appear in ChatGPT citations, add Allow: / under User-agent: GPTBot in your robots.txt.

👻 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 65/100 — Good
Structured Elements 176 elements (176 lists, 0 rows, 0 headers)
Total Words1408
Raw Density12.5%

🏷️ Schema Health Docs

Organization Schema ✅ Present
Product / Service Schema ⚠️ Not Found
Total Schema Blocks1 block(s) — Basic (low value for AI)

Schema Coverage Map

1/7 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.
💡WebSite schema missing. Add WebSite + SearchAction so Google can generate a Sitelinks Search Box for your brand in AI results.

📐 AI Efficiency Metrics Docs

75
AI Extractability
Medium
Crawl Cost
High
Blocklist Risk
Extractability75/100 — AI models can easily extract answers from this page
Crawl CostMedium (50/100) — moderate for AI crawlers to process
Blocklist RiskHigh — 3 of 5 AI crawlers blocked

Token Bloat Research

28%
🗑️ 72%
Useful Content (97.5 KB)Bloat (243.7 KB)
Token Bloat Ratio3.5× — Lean

Multimodal Readiness

Visual Context99% Optimized for Vision
Image Alt Coverage150 / 151 images have alt text

TDM Rights

TDM-Reservation HeaderNot set
X-Robots-Tag: noaiNot set

🔥 Structural Entropy Check Research

38 Entropy
Poor Token Bloat: High
Noise Ratio: 71.4% · SNR: 0.40 · Signal: 24963 / Noise: 62381 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 rte.ie 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
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Target Audience
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
Pricing Model
⚠ SEMANTIC VOID
🏆 Competitive Moat
SEMANTIC VOID
📊 Content Depth
1/10
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

AI-Readiness Score75/100
Servercloudflare
CDNcloudflare
HTTP Status200
Load Time2719 ms
Raw HTML Size341.2 KB
Visible Text Size97.5 KB

Performance & Speed

27/100 20 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

⏱️ Time to First Byte

2719 ms
Slow — bots may time out or deprioritise

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

📦 Page Weight

2321
DOM nodes
341 KB
HTML payload
Heavy page — consider reducing DOM complexity

🗄️ Cache & CDN

  • ✓ Cache-Control header → max-age=0, s-maxage=120, must-revalidate, public, stale-if-error=1800, stale-while-revalidate=30
  • ✓ CDN cache status → HIT
  • ✓ CDN detected → cloudflare

🔬 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

93/100 15 % of Global Score 🟢 High Confidence

🗺️ Sitemap & Robots

  • ✓ Sitemap declared in robots.txt → https://www.rte.ie/sitemap.xml
  • ✓ Googlebot allowed
  • ✗ GPTBot allowed
  • ✓ ClaudeBot allowed

🔗 Linking

268
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.

🏅 AI-Verified Trust Badge

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AI-Verified badge for rte.ie
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� Deep Crawl Analysis 999 pages · Deep-10

Homepage ACRI
60
Single-page score
+3
Consistent readability
Δ delta
Site-Wide ACRI
63
Avg across 999 pages · Range 33–90
Topical Cohesion
10%
Topical Drift
TF-IDF cosine similarity
Total Words
570735
Avg Bloat
74.3×
Page Type ACRI Token Bloat Words Status
https://www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/articles/sceala/2025/1211/1548463-sceideal-na-nollag-ar-rte-raidio-na-gaeltachta/
Sceideal na Nollag ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
blog 90 7.7× 3271
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0226/1560464-chemical-concerns-former-air-corps-staff-allege-toxic-exposure/
Chemical concerns: Former Air Corps staff allege toxic exposure
pricing 90 9.7× 2887 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2026/0225/1560330-how-new-technology-could-change-how-we-detect-breast-cancer/
How new technology could change how we detect breast cancer
pricing 90 9.2× 2941 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/sport/womens-football/2026/0220/1559514-womens-national-football-league-all-you-need-to-know/
Women's National Football League: All you need to know
pricing 90 9.6× 2670 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/senior-cycle/2025/0821/1529523-further-education-and-training-options-2025/
Further Education and Training Options for Leaving Certs
pricing 80 13.4× 1853 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2026/0225/1560286-us-state-of-union-analysis/
Time will tell if Trump's message of unity hit the mark
pricing 80 13.1× 2121 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2026/0224/1560074-ireland-education/
Govt never signed off on SNA review, says Taoiseach
pricing 80 14.1× 1841 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0224/1559913-ukraine-war-russia-vladimir-putin-kremlin-public-public-support/
As Ukraine war continues, will Putin's support hold in Russia?
pricing 80 13.5× 1894 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0220/1559543-lisa-phillips/
Epstein survivor calls for 'thorough' Irish investigation
other 80 12.8× 1843
https://www.rte.ie/learn/2025/1114/1494851-health-andrew-says-that-type-1-diabetes-does-not-limit-you/
Health: Andrew says that Type 1 diabetes does not limit you
pricing 77 18.8× 1228 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/senior-cycle/2025/0822/1529282-leaving-cert-results-2025-10-things-students-need-to-know/
Leaving Cert Results 2025: 10 Things Students Need To Know
pricing 77 19.6× 1213 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/senior-cycle/2025/0609/1517556-leaving-cert-diary-irish-paper-1-and-100-of-maths-is-done/
Leaving Cert Diary: Irish Paper 1 and 100% of Maths is done!
pricing 77 16.7× 1417 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/2025/0422/1508896-discover-irish-kids-books-for-younger-readers-in-april/
Discover Irish Kids Books for Younger Readers in April
pricing 77 19.7× 1211 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/2025/0422/1508899-discover-irish-kids-books-new-releases-april-older-kids/
Discover Irish Kids Books: New releases in April for older kids
pricing 77 16.9× 1424 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/2025/0324/1503737-discover-irish-kids-books-young-readers-march-2025/
Discover Irish Kids Books: A bumper month for younger readers
pricing 77 16.0× 1529 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/learn/senior-cycle/2023/0626/1391213-leaving-cert-2023-further-education-and-training-options/
Leaving Cert 2023: Further Education and Training options
pricing 77 16.9× 1419 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0226/1510053-data-privacy-education-technology-gdpr/
Who owns my child's data?
legal 77 19.2× 1200
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0226/1560549-an-garda-siochana/
Garda commissioner 'ready to go' with drug testing plans
pricing 77 18.4× 1424 💰 Pricing
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0226/1560553-wrc-adjudicator-opens-wrc-case/
WRC adjudicator opens WRC case on alleged discrimination
other 77 19.8× 1161
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0226/1560499-millenials-cancer-lifestyle-factors-diet-alcohol-sleep-stress/
Why are so many millenials getting cancer?
pricing 77 16.4× 1528 💰 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/ 185 71 0% 34.7× High JS Bloat
/sport/ 122 71 0% 32.0× High JS Bloat
/learn/ 73 72 0% 31.3× High JS Bloat
/entertainment/ 34 71 0% 35.1× High JS Bloat
/radio/ 19 70 0% 32.0× High JS Bloat
/lifestyle/ 19 73 0% 26.3× High JS Bloat
/brainstorm/ 18 75 0% 18.6× High JS Bloat
/culture/ 17 72 0% 27.5× High JS Bloat
/kids/ 5 64 0% 65.2× High JS Bloat
/gaeilge/ 4 72 0% 28.0× High JS Bloat
/tv/ 3 74 0% 24.3× High JS Bloat
/history/ 1 72 0% 23.7× High JS Bloat
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Outbound External Citations
0 unique external domains cited across 999 pages
about.rte.ie ×999
2rn.ie ×999
instagram.com ×999
twitter.com ×999
youtube.com ×999
tvlicence.ie ×999
saorview.ie ×999
facebook.com ×999
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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.

44
Homepage ACRI
54
Inner Avg ACRI
-10
ACRI Delta
40%
Homepage Ghost
40%
Inner Avg Ghost
0
Drift Score [?]
Worst Inner Pages
59 40% pricing https://www.rte.ie/learn/2026/0212/1558198-judges-select-the-finalists-for-this-is-art-2025-26/
49 40% pricing https://www.rte.ie/learn/2026/0224/1560141-lesson-plans-online-safety-digital-media-literacy-rights-rules-reporting-online/
49 40% blog https://www.rte.ie/learn/2025/0607/1517269-watch-cruinniu-na-nogs-creative-sparks-flew-today/
🛡️

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: RTÉ Learn, RTÉ Learn, RTÉ Learn
🔗

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.

163
Total Links
21
Unique Domains
10.9
Avg/Page
13%
Diversity
tvlicence.ie saorview.ie youtube.com ie.linkedin.com twitter.com about.rte.ie facebook.com instagram.com 2rn.ie linkedin.com
🏘️ Outbound Neighborhood Trust Avg Trust: 70.8

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

🩹

Remediation Patches

COPY-PASTE

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

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": "Rte",
  "url": "https://rte.ie",
  "potentialAction": {
    "@type": "SearchAction",
    "target": "https://rte.ie/search?q={search_term_string}",
    "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
  }
}
</script>
Allow GPTBot in robots.txt
High Impact ⏱ 2 min
GPTBot is blocked — your content cannot appear in ChatGPT citations. Add this to your robots.txt:
text
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

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

Projected Impact

ROI EST.

If you apply the patches above, here's the estimated improvement for rte.ie:

Current Score
64
Projected Score
79
Improvement
+15 pts
Allow GPTBot +8 pts
Add WebSite schema +4 pts
Add FAQ schema +3 pts

*Estimates based on SEODiff's scoring model. Actual results depend on implementation quality.

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🧭 Self-Diffing (Private Layer)

For owned domains, combine this world snapshot with private drift + regression history.
Template Drift
Track in My Site
Drift → Traffic Impact
In development coming soon
Regression Incidents
Track in My Site
Internal Linking
Deep Audit graph
Semantic Structure
GEO view in Deep Audit
Content Quality
Thin/duplicate tracking

🕒 History

Score over timeAvailable in My Site history
Drift eventsTemplate timeline + incidents
Drift → Revenue AttributionComing soon
Schema/rendering/extractability changesTracked per scan in project history