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AI Agentic Readiness
9 / 30
agentic checks passed 44% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
nypost.com is live and passes 9 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (44%). It runs on wordpress on nginx over HTTPS.
For AI agents, nypost.com's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, a clear canonical URL, and dense, entity-rich content. 158/183 images declare explicit dimensions.
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, render-blocking resources, and no structured tables or lists. An agent can read nypost.com's content but has little machine-readable way to discover it - closing the AI discovery gap would be the fastest lift.
Agent interaction
~Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityMissing lang attribute on <html> tag
~Clean, Crawlable HTMLNo H1 tag(s) found (0)
✗Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 48.8 words - too long for AI snippets
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
~Schema Coverage & DepthArticle schema has only 3/7 key properties
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://nypost.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: claudebot, perplexitybot
✗Sitemap Completenesssitemap.xml does not contain valid XML structure
✗RSS/Atom FeedRSS/Atom feed link tag found in homepage <head>
✓Internationalization SignalsSelf-referencing hreflang present on homepage
✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
✓Entity Authority & E-E-A-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage
✓Creator Transparency1/1 sampled pages provide clear visible creator attribution
~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 nypost.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 nypost.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present nypost.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
