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Five federal homepages, one shared pattern: clean architecture, no structured identity, no verifiable dates.
- National average: 49.0, Grade D. The five sites span only 11 points (44 to 55). No site reaches Grade B, one reaches Grade C, four sit in Grade D.
- Zero JSON-LD on all five. Not one page gives AI systems a structured statement of who the institution is, who is responsible for it, or when it was last updated.
- Entity clarity is 45 on every site, identically. A tie that exact points to a shared template rather than five separate editorial decisions.
- The most citizen-relevant site scores lowest. oesterreich.gv.at, the gateway for iD Austria, eAusweise, Pflegegeld and vehicle registration, scores 44 and is the only page with competing H1 tags.
The profile in one view
Scores are the Inspector’s dimension scores (0 to 100) for each homepage. Read across a row to see a national pattern; read down a column to see an institution’s character.
| Area | Portal | Chancellery | Finance | Infrastructure | Heritage agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content architecture | 70 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Data extractability | 70 | 59 | 75 | 80 | 65 |
| Entity clarity | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Schema and metadata | 20 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 10 |
| Freshness signals | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Trust and authorship | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Overall index | 44 (D) | 47 (D) | 51 (D) | 55 (C) | 48 (D) |
Shading: 75 and above strong, 50 to 74 moderate, 20 to 49 weak, below 20 absent. Trust and authorship is the Inspector’s E-E-A-T density score.
Where Austria needs to improve
Ranked by how many institutions are affected and how much one fix would unlock, not by the size of the gap alone.
1. Structured identity (all five)
No Organization, Person or Article schema anywhere, and no sameAs links to Wikidata or Wikipedia, so knowledge-graph anchoring scores 0 across the board. AI systems must guess that “Bundesministerium für Finanzen” is a federal ministry rather than infer it from markup. This is the highest-leverage fix: if the five sites share a platform, one Organization template could lift all of them.
2. Dates and accountability (all five)
Freshness scores run 0, 0, 0, 8, 8. For a state, the date is part of the message: tax rules, mobility regulations, fraud warnings and vehicle rules all change. Undated pages read as stale to retrieval engines that weigh recency.
3. Named responsibility (all five)
E-E-A-T density is 0 to 10 out of 100. Institutions already publish responsible offices and press contacts for people; the markup that tells a machine the same thing is missing. It also explains why Claude scores lowest among the engines (30 to 38 on every site, average 32), since it is the engine most sensitive to authorship and hierarchy signals.
4. Metadata hygiene (four of five)
Canonical URLs are missing on four sites and meta descriptions on three. These are small, fast fixes with measurable effect on how summaries are anchored.
5. Navigation noise in the entity layer (four of five)
Accesskey labels (“Zum Inhalt”, “Zur Suche”) surface as detected entities on the portal, the Chancellery and the Heritage agency, and navigation phrases appear among the query candidates on all five. Accessibility labels that leak into the content layer dilute what each site is about.
Austria has done the hard part. The homepages are well structured. What is missing is the layer that tells a machine what the structure belongs to.
Institution profiles
oesterreich.gv.at, the government portal – Grade D – 44/100
The gateway nobody can name
The page every citizen is sent to is parsed as “Startseite von oesterreich.gv.at”, a generic label. It is the only site with a structural warning: two competing H1 tags.StrengthsRich life-event content (marriage, vehicle registration, Pflegegeld) and the strongest co-occurrence score in the set (15/15).Improve firstConsolidate to one H1, add Organization schema and dates, fix six images without alt text.What AI seesDigital Austria Servicestelle and an age-verification notice as named entities; iD Austria appears as a query but not as a detected entity; the entity schema score is 0/20.Why it mattersHighest public-service stakes, lowest score. A citizen asking an AI assistant how to apply for Pflegegeld is routed by whatever the engine can name and date.
Bundeskanzleramt, the Federal Chancellery – Grade D – 47/100
The well-built archive
Perfect architecture and a clean H1, but the lowest extractability among the four ministry-level sites (59) and no meta description. The page leans on institutional history, with the Ballhausplatz building featuring prominently.StrengthsThe Federal Chancellery of Austria is detected as an organization entity, with the best entity stability in the set (76/100).Improve firstMeta description and canonical URL, then structured lists and tables for the government and cabinet content, which would raise extractability.What AI seesCitizens’ and Family Service labels alongside Official Signature and Figurative Mark, which are page furniture rather than topics.Why it mattersAs the coordinating body of the federal government, it is the natural anchor for Austria’s institutional identity, and currently carries none in markup.
Bundesministerium für Finanzen (BMF) – Grade D – 51/100
The press-led ministry
A perfect architecture score and 75 on extractability, held back by Schema 10 and a freshness score of only 8. The 24 candidate queries are dominated by Financial Police press items on fraud and illegal employment.StrengthsClear topical entities (Economic Policy, Combating Fraud, Financial Sector) and the second-best Perplexity and ChatGPT compatibility in the set (74 and 77).Improve firstArticle schema with datePublished and dateModified on press releases, then Organization schema with a responsible office.What AI seesA news-driven homepage. Its freshest and most citable content is exactly what lacks machine-readable dates.Why it mattersTax, VAT and fraud-warning content is time-sensitive. An undated answer about VAT rules is a risk for both the engine and the citizen.
Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur (BMIMI) – Grade C – 55/100
The best of a uniform set
The only Grade C, with the best extractability (80) and the best schema and metadata score (25), because it already carries a meta description. It still lacks every schema type and a canonical URL.StrengthsStrong service topics (Klimaticket, vignette and toll, electric mopeds, mobility week) and the best Perplexity, ChatGPT and Claude scores of the five.Improve firstAdd alt text to ten images, a canonical URL, then Organization and Article schema with dates.What AI seesAn embedded YouTube video surfaces the European Commission as an entity, and the commercial taxonomy mislabels the page with conversion-rate and case-study concepts that do not apply to a ministry.Why it mattersMobility rules change often (new moped rules from 1 October 2026). The ministry that publishes the most citizen-facing change has the same missing date layer as the rest.
Burghauptmannschaft Österreich – Grade D – 48/100
The heritage agency
The thinnest page of the five (semantic richness 37/100) and the one with the weakest topical clustering. Palais Modena’s history at Herrengasse 7 and tender notices carry most of the page.StrengthsPerfect structure score and a single image missing alt text.Improve firstDepth: state plainly what the agency manages, for whom, and how to rent or tender. Then the standard schema and dates set.What AI seesEvent, rental and public-relations services as emerging concepts; no topic clusters detected.CheckThis is a federal agency, not a ministry, and its top candidate query names the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Worth confirming how the page describes its institutional parent.
One national fix, five local ones
The same audit gaps repeat so closely that most of the national uplift is a template-level job, not five separate projects.
| Level | Action | Reach |
|---|---|---|
| Shared template | Organization JSON-LD with sameAs to Wikidata, dateModified and datePublished, canonical URL, Open Graph set | All five |
| Shared template | Move accesskey and skip-link labels out of the content layer | All five |
| Local | Portal: one H1, six alt texts, FAQ schema for life-event pages | oesterreich.gv.at |
| Local | Chancellery: meta description, structured cabinet and government lists | Bundeskanzleramt |
| Local | Finance: Article schema on press releases, responsible-office Person markup | BMF |
| Local | Infrastructure: ten alt texts, canonical URL, Article schema on mobility news | BMIMI |
| Local | Heritage agency: expand service and property content | Burghauptmannschaft |
Scope and method
Each institution’s homepage was audited once on 4 October 2026 with the AI Visibility Inspector (v1.9.3) and the Ivica Srncevic Framework. This is a homepage snapshot, not a full-site audit. The shared-template reading is an inference from identical scores and identical accesskey patterns and should be confirmed in the page source. Engine citation percentages are the tool’s estimates and are best read relatively. The Microsoft Copilot score was not captured in the exports. The Inspector’s “content gaps” list uses a commercial vocabulary (buyer journey, demand generation) that does not suit government sites and was left out of this profile.
Profile network. This hub will link to a dedicated page per institution as each is expanded. For the corporate side of Austria, see Austria’s Top Companies.
Research: Srna SEO · Methodology: Ivica Srncevic Framework + AI Visibility Inspector · Independent, not sponsored by any organization. Institution names are used for identification and analysis only.
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