Tampa Bay, Florida news | Tampa Bay Times/St. Pete Times
AI Agentic Readiness
9 / 30
agentic checks passed 43% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
tampabay.com is live and passes 9 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (43%). It runs on openresty over HTTPS.
For AI agents, tampabay.com's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a clear canonical URL, atomic, quotable sentences, and dense, entity-rich content. Average 54% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
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 tampabay.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 & AccessibilityHomepage has no <h1> heading
~Clean, Crawlable HTMLNo H1 tag(s) found (0)
✗Extraction Friction ScoreHidden content detected (display:none or hidden attribute)
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
~Layout Stability & Responsiveness10/19 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✗Page Speed: Page SizeHomepage HTML is 794KB
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers9 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 54% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 40.5% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✓Definition PatternsDefinition patterns appear early in page content - good for snippet extraction
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/14 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://tampabay.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: gptbot, claudebot
✗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 tampabay.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 tampabay.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present tampabay.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
