Advocacy Grade

ruag.com

Evidence collected August 31, 2026 · 30 polite, robots.txt-respecting requests · every claim cites what it saw

F

36.5/100 — advocacy readiness

Graded because the reader classified enough of this site to trust the measurement. For scale: of the 350 companies in this corpus, only 126 earned a grade — for the rest I withheld it rather than grade a site the reader could not read.

44/100
Content Supply
50.1/100
Shareability
0/100
Employee & Culture
54/100
AI Discoverability

Read this before the numbers

This tool was built in a few days, on a stack of stated assumptions. I didn't have the time — or the inside knowledge of what buyers in this category actually optimize for — to be certain these are the metrics that matter most. The four categories and their weights are editorial judgment, not measurement: nobody has proven that these things cause employees to post, and I don't claim otherwise.

Where the evidence comes from: three of the four categories read only what your company has published on its own public site — the part you can fix on Monday. Half of Employee & Culture comes from somewhere else: aggregate counts of how many of your people posted in the last 90 days, from a licensed third-party index of public professional-network activity. Nothing here was scraped from LinkedIn by this tool. Those counts are records in an index, not a census — they undercount, they undercount small companies most, and you can't check them yourself — so each one says so where it appears, a zero is reported as "none in the index" and never as "nobody posts," and a company with fewer than 25 people in the index gets the number reported but not scored. No individual is named anywhere in this report.

To prioritize speed, this particular report was loaded using cached data; it was generated from evidence originally collected on August 31, 2026 rather than live. Reports are cached for 30 days. Every observation below is dated and cited.

What you can hold me to: every number cites its evidence and says where it came from, nothing unseen is guessed at, robots.txt is respected on every fetch, and when this tool can't read a site it says so instead of issuing a grade.

What was found — most fixable first

Ranked by impact × ease of fixing, not by category. Counts describe the pages actually read, and each finding cites them.

Broken

0 of 24 sampled pages carry a share image (og:image)

None of the 24 content pages sampled carry a share image (og:image). Without an og:image, most platforms render a shared link as a bare grey box.

Evidence — content page sample
  • https://www.ruag.com/fr/actualites/le-conseil-federal-decide-de-lavenir-du-groupe-technologique-ruag
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/acquisition-mubea-group-strengthens-technology-leadership-aerostructures-germany-hungary
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/aus-ruag-holding-wird-ruag-international-holding
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/ceo-ruag-international-announces-his-resignation
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/ceo-von-ruag-international-kuendigt-ruecktritt
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/dr-barbara-frei-spreiter-appointed-new-ceo-ruag-international-holding-ag-and-beyond-gravity
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/drei-neue-mitglieder-zur-wahl-den-verwaltungsrat-von-ruag-international-nominiert
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/entflechtung-erfolgreich-abgeschlossen-covid-19-schwaecht-umsatz-und-ebit-im-ersten-halbjahr
  • … and 16 more in the sample

The fix: Add a default share image to the content template, and per-post images where you have art.

Issue

Your homepage share card is missing og:title, og:description, og:image

The homepage lacks og:title, og:description, og:image. When anyone — including your own employees — shares your homepage link, the preview card renders incomplete (no image means most platforms show a bare grey box).

Evidence: homepage HTML.

The fix: Add the missing tags to the homepage template: og:title, og:description, og:image. Minutes of work, visible on every share afterward.

Issue

0 of 24 sampled pages carry Article structured data

None of the 24 content pages sampled carry Article structured data. Machine readers cannot tell these pages are articles, or when they were published, or by whom.

Evidence — content page sample
  • https://www.ruag.com/fr/actualites/le-conseil-federal-decide-de-lavenir-du-groupe-technologique-ruag
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/acquisition-mubea-group-strengthens-technology-leadership-aerostructures-germany-hungary
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/aus-ruag-holding-wird-ruag-international-holding
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/ceo-ruag-international-announces-his-resignation
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/ceo-von-ruag-international-kuendigt-ruecktritt
  • https://www.ruag.com/en/news/dr-barbara-frei-spreiter-appointed-new-ceo-ruag-international-holding-ag-and-beyond-gravity
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/drei-neue-mitglieder-zur-wahl-den-verwaltungsrat-von-ruag-international-nominiert
  • https://www.ruag.com/de/news/entflechtung-erfolgreich-abgeschlossen-covid-19-schwaecht-umsatz-und-ebit-im-ersten-halbjahr
  • … and 16 more in the sample

The fix: Emit Article (or BlogPosting) JSON-LD with headline, datePublished and author in the content template.

Issue

Your careers page could not be retrieved

2 careers location(s) were tried (https://www.ruag.com/careers, https://www.ruag.com/jobs) and none returned a readable page. Candidates researching you through tools and AI assistants hit the same wall.

Evidence — careers page probes
  • https://www.ruag.com/careers — HTTP 404
  • https://www.ruag.com/jobs — HTTP 403

The fix: Serve a crawlable careers page at /careers and link it from the homepage.

Issue

0 of 24 sampled pages name a human author

None of the 24 sampled content pages carry a named human author — no byline, no author schema, no rel=author. Content nobody signs is content nobody feels ownership of; advocacy runs on employees being visible in the work.

Evidence: content page sample — 0 of 24 sampled pages.

The fix: Add author bylines to content pages — a name, ideally with a link or an author block in the Article schema. Start with new posts; backfilling can wait.

Opportunity

No structured data on your homepage

The homepage carries no JSON-LD schema.org markup. Machine readers — search engines and AI assistants alike — get no structured statement of who you are (Organization, name, logo, sameAs profiles).

Evidence: homepage HTML.

The fix: Add an Organization JSON-LD block to the homepage: name, url, logo, and sameAs links to your official social profiles.

Opportunity

Your people are barely posting

In the licensed index, 0 of the 142 employees it has records for posted anything in the last 90 days (0%). That is a share of the index's coverage, not of your headcount. Across the 124 graded companies in this corpus with comparable counts the median is 6.1%. This is a third-party count and a lower bound — but the gap to the median is not a rounding error.

Evidence: licensed third-party index.

The fix: This is the gap an advocacy program closes directly. Start with the few people who already post: give them something from your site worth sharing this week.

Opportunity

No company-page posts in the last 90 days — in the index

The licensed index holds 36 post(s) from your company page in total and none in the last 90 days. That may be index coverage rather than silence — during testing the index missed a company that posts weekly — so treat this as a prompt to check, not a verdict.

Evidence: licensed third-party index.

The fix: If the page really has gone quiet, employees have nothing of yours to amplify. A weekly cadence is the floor most graded companies clear.

Issue

Only 18% of your dated content was touched in the last year

22 of 124 URLs with credible lastmod dates were updated in the last 365 days. A supply this static gives employees little new to share.

Evidence: sitemap lastmod analysis.

The fix: A regular publishing cadence — even monthly — matters more for advocacy than volume.

Opportunity

No culture or life-at pages anywhere in your sitemap

Of 121 canonical URLs, zero classify as culture content — no life-at pages, employee stories, or team spotlights. This is the most common gap this tool finds, and the most directly advocacy-shaped one: it is the content employees share proudest and first. Your people's own posting is scored separately, below.

Evidence: sitemap URL classification.

The fix: Start small: one employee-story post a month, indexed in the sitemap. The section can grow from there.

What's already working

Working

All tracked AI user-agents may read your site

robots.txt permits all 25 tracked AI user-agents at the site root, so AI search engines and assistants that honor robots.txt can read and cite you.

Evidence: robots.txt.

Working

Content is localized across 3 locales

124 URLs are localized variants across 3 locales. I count each piece of content once (localization is maturity, not volume), but a multi-language surface is real evidence of marketing investment — and gives non-English-speaking employees something to share.

Evidence: sitemap URL classification.

For the record

Note

No llms.txt

No llms.txt file is served. This costs nothing today — the evidence that llms.txt affects anything is weak — so I do not count it against you.

Evidence: llms.txt fetch.

How the numbers break down

Weights: Content Supply 30% · Shareability 25% · Employee & Culture 25% (half what the site says, half what employees do) · AI Discoverability 20%. The weights are editorial judgment about what an advocacy program draws on — not the result of a study. Every row cites the observation behind it and says whether it was read from your site or from the licensed index.

Content Supply — 44/100

SignalPointsWhat was observed
Volume floor16.5/4087 shareable pages after collapsing localized duplicates
Section diversity4/301 shareable section(s): news_press
Shareable share25.4/3071.9% of the canonical inventory is shareable content
Recency adjustment-1.9/822 of 124 dated URLs updated in the last year (18%)

Shareability — 50.1/100

SignalPointsWhat was observed
Open Graph image — without one, a shared link renders as a bare grey box0/350 of 24 sampled pages (0%)
Open Graph title on the shared card15/1524 of 24 sampled pages (100%)
Open Graph description on the shared card14.4/1523 of 24 sampled pages (95.8%)
A visible share control on the page18.8/3015 of 24 sampled pages (62.5%)
Twitter/X card tags (near-zero weight: X falls back to Open Graph)0/30 of 24 sampled pages (0%)
Canonical URL (near-zero weight: SEO hygiene, not a sharing condition)2/224 of 24 sampled pages (100%)

Employee & Culture — 0/100

SignalPointsWhat was observed
What the site says (50 of 100)
Culture / life-at pages0/150 culture page(s) in the canonical inventory
Careers page reachable0/7.5No careers page could be retrieved
Careers depth0/7.50 careers URL(s) in the sitemap
Named authors on content0/12.50% of sampled pages carry a named author
Employee-story signals0/7.5No culture URLs existed to sample, so no employee-story signal could be checked
What employees do (50 of 100)
Employees posting (last 90 days)0/250 of 142 indexed employees posted in the last 90 days (0%). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable); 142 of 418 employees covered.
Decision-makers posting0/150 decision-makers posted in the last 90 days (0% of indexed employees). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable).
Company page posting cadence0/100 company post(s) in the last 90 days in the index — none in the index, which is not proof the company does not post. licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable).

A qualitative read of the careers page (boilerplate vs. real human stories) is not included in this number.

Half of this category is measured from employee posting activity in a licensed third-party index (142 of 418 employees covered). Those counts are records in a third-party index, a lower bound the visitor cannot verify independently; the other half is what the website itself shows.

AI Discoverability — 54/100

SignalPointsWhat was observed
AI crawler access45/45All 25 tracked AI user-agents are permitted at the site root
Content-Signal coherence9/15No Content-Signal declared. Neither a grant nor a restriction — scored neutrally.
Structured data0/400 schema.org type(s) on the homepage; 0% of sampled content pages carry Article schema
llms.txt0/0Not present. This costs nothing — the evidence that llms.txt affects anything is weak.

robots.txt compliance is voluntary and advisory. This reports the declared policy; it is not a claim that any crawler was actually blocked.