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How this compares

Greenhouse ranks #11 of 15 scanned HR & recruiting sites, scoring 75/100 — 1 point below the category average of 76. The category leader scores 87. Immediately above is Workday on 76, and immediately below, BambooHR on 73.

Cited by AI answer engines

In the week of Oct 11, 2026, greenhouse.io was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 1 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 0 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 0 of 5 HR & recruiting prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #1, on “Which recruiting tool integrates best with job boards and a shared calendar for interview scheduling?” (OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini)). Citations are engine output at the time of the run, not a b/cited rating, and the prompts are a sample, not a census.

Overall
75 / 100
AEO
63 / 100
Rank
#11 of 15
Cited by AI
1 of 15
prompt × engine pairs, week of Oct 11, 2026
Last scanned
10/11/2026
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Results
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Overall
75 / 100
31 pass20 warn4 fail
Scanned
greenhouse.io
1.1s · 55 checks
⚠ PSI_API_KEY not configured
Indexing & crawl96 / 10011✓1!
  • HTTPS
    served over https://
    Docs →
  • HTTP response
    200 OK
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  • Time to first byte
    312ms (fast)
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  • Redirect chain
    1 redirect (acceptable)
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  • robots.txt present
    83 bytes
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  • robots.txt allows this URL
    Googlebot may crawl /
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  • Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
    Sitemap: directive present
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  • sitemap.xml present
    1390 URLs
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  • sitemap.xml uses <lastmod>
    lastmod hints help Googlebot prioritize re-crawls
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  • No noindex directive
    page is indexable
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  • Canonical URL
    canonical points elsewhere: https://www.greenhouse.com/
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  • lang attribute on <html>
    lang="en-US"
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Metadata94 / 1007✓1!
  • Title tag length
    62 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Title tag present
    "Greenhouse | Applicant tracking software &amp; hiring platform"
  • Meta description length
    155 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Meta description present
    "Greenhouse is more than your typical ATS recruiting software, powered by built-in AI recruiting too…"
  • H1 heading
    2 <h1> elements — one primary heading is preferred for clarity
  • Subheadings (H2)
    5 <h2> elements
  • Mobile viewport
    viewport meta present
  • Favicon
    icon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)63 / 1003✓4!1✗
  • llms.txt
    20958 bytes — AI crawlers get a curated index
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  • ai.txt (Spawning consent)
    missing (optional) — Spawning consent file is not load-bearing for citation, but signals intent
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  • AI crawler stance in robots.txt
    no AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)
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  • FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)
    absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answers
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  • HowTo schema
    absent — HowTo gets cited heavily for procedural queries
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  • Organization schema
    present
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  • WebSite / WebApplication schema
    absent — anchors site identity for AI answer engines
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  • Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)
    present
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Structured data83 / 1004✓2!
  • JSON-LD structured data present
    1 JSON-LD block(s)
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  • JSON-LD valid JSON
    all blocks parsed cleanly
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  • Organization or WebSite schema
    Organization
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  • Sitelinks searchbox (SearchAction)
    no SearchAction — your site can't opt into the sitelinks searchbox feature
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  • BreadcrumbList
    no BreadcrumbList — Google may not show your breadcrumb path in SERP
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  • Content-specific schema in use
    present: SoftwareApplication / WebApplication, Person (author / E-E-A-T)
    Docs →
Social cards60 / 1001✓4!
  • Open Graph (core 5)
    missing: og:url
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  • og:image dimensions
    no og:image:width / og:image:height — crawlers must download the image to learn dimensions
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  • og:image:alt
    no og:image:alt — sets alt text when image is shared
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  • Twitter Card (core 4)
    twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image all present
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  • twitter:image:alt
    no twitter:image:alt — limits accessibility on the X.com card
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Security36 / 1001✓3!3✗
  • HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security)
    header missing — browsers may still allow http:// downgrades
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  • X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
    header missing
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  • Clickjacking protection
    no X-Frame-Options and no CSP frame-ancestors — clickjacking risk
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  • Content-Security-Policy
    no CSP header — strong defense-in-depth signal
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  • Referrer-Policy
    no Referrer-Policy — browsers will use defaults that leak origin
    Docs →
  • Permissions-Policy
    no Permissions-Policy — opportunity to restrict unused browser APIs
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  • No mixed content
    no http:// asset references on this https page
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Performance50 / 1001!
  • PageSpeed Insights API
    PSI_API_KEY not configured
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Mobile70 / 1002✓3!
  • Viewport meta
    width=device-width, initial-scale=1
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  • Apple touch icon
    apple-touch-icon link tag present
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  • theme-color meta
    no theme-color — mobile browser chrome uses default color
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  • AMP variant
    no AMP variant — Google no longer requires AMP; informational only
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  • Web app manifest
    no manifest — site is not installable as a PWA
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International83 / 1002✓1!
  • hreflang annotations
    4 hreflang declarations (x-default, en-US, en-GB, de-DE)
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  • hreflang x-default
    x-default declared
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  • hreflang self-reference
    no hreflang link points back to this host
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