agentic checks passed 42% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
ugent.be is live and passes 10 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (42%). It runs on plone on Apache over HTTPS.
For AI agents, ugent.be's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Average 43% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, few clear definitions, no self-contained answer passages, and no Schema.org structured data. 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: 36.7 words - too long for AI snippets
✓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)
✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://ugent.be/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-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 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 ugent.be'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 ugent.be more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present ugent.be's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
