japantimes.co.jp

Ranked #154 of 300 on the Leaderboard. Analyzed .

Index Quotient

72.67

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70.20
Technical
84.44
Content
52.86
Answers
73.88
AI
81.99
Authority

Technical Health

70.20

Whether search engines can fetch, trust, and quickly load the site.

Strengths

  • Safe to visitStrong

    Nothing marks this site as unsafe to visit.

Opportunities

  • SpeedPartial

    Pages load reasonably but not quickly, so visitors wait longer than they need to.

  • CrawlabilityPartial

    Crawlers can get in, but not everything helps them along: a complete sitemap, working links and pages that are allowed into the index are what to check.

  • Secure connectionPartial

    The connection is encrypted but not fully hardened: steering every visit onto it and sending the standard security headers would finish the job.

Content Quality

84.44

Whether pages say clearly what they are about, in a form machines can read.

Strengths

  • Titles and descriptionsStrong

    Every page has a clear title and a description of its own, and shares well when linked.

  • Depth and readabilityStrong

    Pages say enough to be useful, in plain language, and stay on the topic their titles promise.

  • Images and linksStrong

    Images are described in text, and pages link to each other with links that say where they go.

Opportunities

Nothing stands out to work on here. The most room left is in Depth and readability.

Answer Readiness

52.86

Whether 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

  • Question-and-answer shapeMissing

    No page poses a question and answers it directly beneath, which is the shape answer engines look for; adding those pages is where this starts.

  • 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.

  • Structured dataPartial

    Structured data is partly there: not on every page, not always complete, and not always the types that earn rich results.

AI Visibility

73.88

Whether 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.

  • Authorship and sourcingStrong

    Articles carry an author and a date, and the content points to its sources.

Opportunities

  • IdentityWeak

    Little here says who is behind the site, in the markup or on the pages themselves.

  • FeedsMissing

    There is no feed and the sitemap carries no dates, so nothing tells a machine when something new appears; a feed is a small addition.

Authority

81.99

Whether 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.

  • Social presenceStrong

    The site links to its profiles on the major platforms.

Opportunities

Nothing here to work on. The points left are the ones only the web's largest sites earn.

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Scores reflect what IndexBot could read from japantimes.co.jp's available pages on .

IndexBot

IndexBot is the crawler behind SEO Leaderboard. It visits a website only when someone submits that domain, reads it the way a search engine would, and leaves.

What it does

  • Fetches the homepage, robots.txt, the sitemap, and up to 24 more pages, at most four at a time.
  • Reads raw HTML only. It runs no JavaScript and loads no images, fonts, or scripts.
  • Visits a domain at most once every 24 hours, however many people submit it.
  • Stores what it measured, never full copies of pages.

How it identifies itself

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; IndexBot/1.0; +https://seoleaderboard.com/bot)

How to let it in

Bot protection often turns IndexBot away before it reads anything, and the domain then cannot be scored. If you run the site, allow the User-Agent IndexBot. In Cloudflare that is a WAF skip rule; most other tools have the same idea under a different name.

(http.user_agent contains "IndexBot")

IndexBot has no fixed IP range to allow instead, so the User-Agent is the only thing to match on. It never tries to disguise itself as a browser, and the limits above are the whole of what it asks for.

How to keep it out

IndexBot obeys robots.txt. Add this and it will not read your site, and your domain cannot be scored.

User-agent: IndexBot
Disallow: /

Questions

Write to bot@seoleaderboard.com.