manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester

AI Agentic Readiness

8 / 30

agentic checks passed
42% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents

Last checked
7 Jul 2026

manchester.ac.uk is live and passes 8 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (42%). It runs on Apache over HTTPS.

For AI agents, manchester.ac.uk's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 35.6% across 1 pages (target >15%).

Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, no structured tables or lists, few clear definitions, and no Schema.org structured data. The weakest area is Structured data; addressing it first would raise this score the most.

Agent interaction

✓Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityARIA attributes found for accessibility

✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description

✗Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 57.4 words - too long for AI snippets

✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met

~Layout Stability & Responsiveness5/20 images lack explicit width/height

✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)

✓Page Speed: Page SizeLightweight document structure

~Page Speed: Load Blockers3 render-blocking script(s) in <head>

Machine extraction

✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage

~Sentence AtomicityAverage 38% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)

✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 35.6% across 1 pages (target >15%)

✗Definition PatternsNo definition patterns found

~Answer Capsule Pattern3/12 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (25%)

Structured data

✗Schema.org Structured DataNo JSON-LD structured data found across homepage

✗Schema Coverage & DepthNo JSON-LD found - cannot assess schema coverage

✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema

AI discovery

✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://manchester.ac.uk/llms.txt (connection failed)

~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt

✗Sitemap CompletenessNo sitemap.xml found

✗RSS/Atom FeedHomepage does not link to an RSS/Atom feed in <head>

✗Internationalization SignalsNo hreflang alternate links found

✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found

Trust & transparency

✓Entity Authority & E-E-A-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage

~Creator TransparencyVisible authorship is present on some content but inconsistent

~Methodology TransparencyLittle content-production or review transparency is visible

~AI Assistance DisclosureNo AI-assistance disclosure found on sampled pages (neutral - the engine cannot tell whether AI was used)

✗Visible Date SignalNo visible date signals found across homepage (no <time> elements, no JSON-LD dates, no article meta dates)

✓Title & Meta QualityTitles are present, unique, and well-sized, and pages carry meta descriptions

✗Content Freshness SignalsNo JSON-LD date properties (datePublished/dateModified) found across homepage

✗Author & Expert SchemaNo Person schema found across homepage

Every check is a verifiable fact about manchester.ac.uk's live pages. Scoring follows Google Lighthouse agentic-browsing: a fraction of concrete checks, not an invented 0-100.

How to improve for AI agents

The highest-impact changes to make manchester.ac.uk more agent-ready, in priority order.

1 Add structured tables and lists critical impact medium effort

Present manchester.ac.uk's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.

2 Add content freshness signals critical impact medium effort

Refresh and re-date manchester.ac.uk's key pages so agents see it as maintained.

3 Add definition-style content critical impact medium effort

Add clear "X is ..." definitions on manchester.ac.uk so agents can lift direct answers.

4 Add JSON-LD structured data critical impact medium effort

Mark up manchester.ac.uk's homepage with Schema.org JSON-LD (Organization, WebSite) an agent can read as facts.

Trust & legitimacy signals

✓Currently activeyes (HTTP 200)

✓Secure (HTTPS)yes

✓Identifiable technologyApache

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Agentic readiness for manchester.ac.uk last checked 7 Jul 2026. Machine-readable: JSON. Method: methodology.