agentic checks passed 48% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
purdue.edu is live and passes 10 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (48%). It runs on wordpress over HTTPS.
For AI agents, purdue.edu's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a clear canonical URL, and a lightweight page. Approximately 891 DOM nodes.
Its main gaps are no structured tables or lists, no self-contained answer passages, no speakable schema for voice agents, and no llms.txt for agent discovery. An agent can read purdue.edu'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 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 & Responsiveness83/83 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 891 DOM nodes
~Page Speed: Load Blockers14 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 41% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 45.4% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/8 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (0%)
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://purdue.edu/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 TransparencyCreator visibility is weak on content-like pages
~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 purdue.edu'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 purdue.edu more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present purdue.edu's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
