agentic checks passed 46% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
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stanford.edu is live and passes 8 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (46%). It runs on Netlify over HTTPS.
For AI agents, stanford.edu's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Average entity density 30.6% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. 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: 28.5 words - slightly long
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
✓Layout Stability & ResponsivenessViewport is configured and media declares dimensions - static layout-stability signals look good
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✗Page Speed: Page SizeHomepage HTML is 764KB
~Page Speed: Load Blockers4 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 29% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 30.6% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 2 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern3/29 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (10%)
Structured data
✗Schema.org Structured DataNo JSON-LD structured data found across homepage
✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://stanford.edu/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✓Sitemap Completeness27 URLs have lastmod dates
✗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-TNo Organization schema to reinforce entity identity
✗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 Signal16 visible <time> element(s) with datetime attribute found across homepage
✓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 stanford.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 stanford.edu more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present stanford.edu's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
