irs.gov
Ranked #217 of 300 on the Leaderboard. Analyzed .
Index Quotient
69.39
Technical Health
96.59Whether search engines can fetch, trust, and quickly load the site.
Strengths
- CrawlabilityStrong
Crawlers are welcome here: a sitemap points the way, links work, and pages are allowed into the index.
- SpeedStrong
Pages load quickly, and the server answers fast.
- URL and canonical hygieneStrong
URLs are clean and consistent, each page has one address, and missing pages say so.
Opportunities
Nothing stands out to work on here.
Content Quality
67.34Whether pages say clearly what they are about, in a form machines can read.
Strengths
- Images and linksStrong
Images are described in text, and pages link to each other with links that say where they go.
- FreshnessStrong
Something here was published or updated recently, and the site says when.
- LanguageStrong
The page language is declared and matches what is on the page.
Opportunities
- Depth and readabilityPartial
Pages have substance, but many stop short, drift from their titles, or read harder than they need to.
- Titles and descriptionsPartial
Titles are mostly in place; descriptions and link previews are patchier, and each page wants ones of its own.
- HeadingsWeak
Pages lack a main heading, or the headings they have are out of order; a page's structure should be readable from its headings alone.
Answer Readiness
19.11Whether content is shaped and marked up so an engine can lift a direct answer.
Strengths
- Scannable formattingStrong
Pages open with a short summary and use lists and tables, so an engine can lift the facts without reading everything.
Opportunities
- Structured dataMissing
Pages carry no structured data, so nothing tells an engine what each one is; marking up the page type, and the site's name, is the first step here.
- Question-and-answer shapeWeak
Few pages are shaped as questions and answers, so there is little for an answer engine to lift as a direct answer.
- Navigation aidsMissing
Pages give no sign of where they sit in the site; a breadcrumb trail on interior pages, in text and in markup, is the fix.
AI Visibility
74.77Whether AI systems can reach, read, and confidently identify the site.
Strengths
- AI accessStrong
AI crawlers are allowed in, and pages may be quoted in AI answers.
- Readable without JavaScriptStrong
The content is in the page itself, marked out from the navigation, and written in prose a machine can lift.
Opportunities
- IdentityPartial
Who is behind the site is partly clear; an About page, a Contact page, and markup naming the organization would let machines say so with confidence.
- Authorship and sourcingPartial
Some articles say who wrote them and when, and some pages cite sources; the rest should say so too.
- FeedsPartial
Either a feed or sitemap dates are in place, not both; machines that watch for new content want both.
Authority
89.12Whether the wider web vouches for the site.
Strengths
- BacklinksStrong
Plenty of other sites link here, including ones that matter.
- TrafficStrong
The site has a large audience.
- Domain historyStrong
The domain has a long history, and history counts.
Opportunities
Nothing here to work on. The points left are the ones only the web's largest sites earn.
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