nrdc.org
Ranked #33 of 300 on the Leaderboard. Analyzed .
Index Quotient
81.86
Technical Health
88.18Whether 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.
- URL and canonical hygieneStrong
URLs are clean and consistent, each page has one address, and missing pages say so.
- Secure connectionStrong
Every visit is encrypted, and the headers that keep it that way are in place.
Opportunities
- SpeedPartial
Pages load reasonably but not quickly, so visitors wait longer than they need to.
Content Quality
91.66Whether 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
69.62Whether 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.
- Navigation aidsStrong
Interior pages show where they sit in the site, and say so in a way engines can read.
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.
AI Visibility
78.12Whether 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.
- FeedsPartial
Either a feed or sitemap dates are in place, not both; machines that watch for new content want both.
Authority
81.74Whether 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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Scores reflect what IndexBot could read from nrdc.org's available pages on .