kubernetes.io

Ranked #49 of 300 on the Leaderboard. Analyzed .

Index Quotient

80.23

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93.75
Technical
74.05
Content
67.82
Answers
84.42
AI
81.09
Authority

Technical Health

93.75

Whether 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.

  • Safe to visitStrong

    Nothing marks this site as unsafe to visit.

Opportunities

  • URL and canonical hygienePartial

    URLs are mostly in order; what remains is giving every page one settled address and making missing pages answer as missing.

  • 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

74.05

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

Strengths

  • Depth and readabilityStrong

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

  • FreshnessStrong

    Something here was published or updated recently, and the site says when.

Opportunities

  • Titles and descriptionsPartial

    Titles are mostly in place; descriptions and link previews are patchier, and each page wants ones of its own.

  • Images and linksPartial

    Pages link to one another, though some images lack a description and some link text says "read more" rather than where it leads.

  • HeadingsPartial

    Headings are there, but not always one main heading per page or a tidy order of levels beneath it.

Answer Readiness

67.82

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 shapePartial

    Some headings are questions with an answer beneath them; more of them, each followed by a short direct answer, is what an answer engine lifts.

  • Structured dataPartial

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

  • Navigation aidsWeak

    Few pages show their place in the site, so engines see pages rather than a structure.

AI Visibility

84.42

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.

  • Authorship and sourcingStrong

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

  • FeedsStrong

    The site offers a feed, and its sitemap says when pages last changed.

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.

  • Readable without JavaScriptPartial

    Most content is readable without running scripts, but some pages arrive thin, or the content is not clearly marked out from the furniture around it.

Authority

81.09

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 kubernetes.io'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.