agentic checks passed 52% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
novartis.com is live and passes 12 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (52%). It runs on drupal on cloudflare over HTTPS.
For AI agents, novartis.com's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Approximately 2158 DOM nodes - consider simplifying.
Its main gaps are long, hard-to-quote sentences, no self-contained answer passages, no speakable schema for voice agents, and no llms.txt for agent discovery. The weakest area is Trust & transparency; 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 ScoreHigh jargon density in opening content
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
✓Layout Stability & Responsiveness21/23 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✓Page Speed: Page SizeApproximately 2158 DOM nodes - consider simplifying
~Page Speed: Load Blockers4 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
~Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✗Sentence AtomicityAverage 19% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 42.9% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsOnly 2 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern2/11 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (18%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://novartis.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
✓robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers are allowed to index the site
✓Sitemap Completeness4069 URLs have lastmod dates
✗RSS/Atom FeedHomepage does not link to an RSS/Atom feed in <head>
~Internationalization SignalsOnly 1 hreflang value found - need at least 2 for proper multi-language linking
✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
~Entity Authority & E-E-A-TNo phone number 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 Quality1/1 titles are shorter than 10 or longer than 70 characters
✗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 novartis.com'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 novartis.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present novartis.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
