Textual Grounding Gap
A 3LA metric for content that lacks factual markers or citation-worthy framing: claims without sources, figures or definitions that an AI model can anchor a citation to.
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Related terms
Structural Proof Gap
metricA 3LA metric that measures how many of a page's intent-critical claims (price, service, FAQ, rating, organization, location) are proven with Schema.org markup rather than only stated in the text. An LLM cites what it can verify.
Consistency and Redundancy Gap
metricA 3LA metric measuring whether the same fact is grounded in two or more independent structures: body text, table and JSON-LD. For an inference engine, data redundancy equals trust. CRG quantifies how single-sourced, and therefore fragile, a site's information architecture is.
Citation Gap
L3The absence of clear attribution markers, fact anchors and authoritative signals in content, the elements AI models require to cite a source, and which are frequently missing from marketing-focused content.
Citation Worthiness
metricA sub-score within L3 measuring whether content contains verifiable, well-sourced claims that AI models will trust and cite.


