weather.gov

Ranked #278 of 300 on the Leaderboard. Analyzed .

Index Quotient

57.41

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80.34
Technical
43.67
Content
28.64
Answers
49.37
AI
85.04
Authority

Technical Health

80.34

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

Strengths

  • SpeedStrong

    Pages load quickly, and the server answers fast.

  • Secure connectionStrong

    Every visit is encrypted, and the headers that keep it that way are in place.

  • Safe to visitStrong

    Nothing marks this site as unsafe to visit.

Opportunities

  • 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.

  • 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.

Content Quality

43.67

Whether 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.

Opportunities

  • Titles and descriptionsWeak

    Titles and descriptions are thin, repeated across pages, or missing, so search results have little to show for each page.

  • Depth and readabilityWeak

    Pages are thin: there is little text for a search engine to judge them on, and what is there does not always match the title.

  • FreshnessMissing

    Nothing here is recently dated, or dated at all; a date on each article, and something new to date, would change that.

Answer Readiness

28.64

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.

  • Navigation aidsStrong

    Interior pages show where they sit in the site, and say so in a way engines can read.

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 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.

AI Visibility

49.37

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.

Opportunities

  • Readable without JavaScriptWeak

    Much of the content only appears once scripts run, so a crawler that reads the raw page finds little.

  • IdentityWeak

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

  • Authorship and sourcingWeak

    Articles rarely say who wrote them or when, and pages rarely link out to sources, which gives an AI little reason to trust them.

Authority

85.04

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.

  • 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 weather.gov'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.