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AI Agentic Readiness
11 / 30
agentic checks passed 50% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
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usa.gov is live and passes 11 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (50%). It runs on drupal over HTTPS.
For AI agents, usa.gov's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 16.1% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are no structured tables or lists, long, hard-to-quote sentences, few clear definitions, and no speakable schema for voice agents. The weakest area is Trust & transparency; addressing it first would raise this score the most.
Agent interaction
~Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityOnly 44% of images have alt text
✓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 & Responsiveness9/9 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✗Sentence AtomicityAverage 16% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 16.1% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
~Answer Capsule Pattern12/23 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (52%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
~Schema Coverage & DepthArticle schema missing or has fewer than 2 key properties
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://usa.gov/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✓Sitemap Completeness1531 URLs in sitemap
✗RSS/Atom FeedHomepage does not link to an RSS/Atom feed in <head>
✓Internationalization SignalsSelf-referencing hreflang present on homepage
~Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
~Entity Authority & E-E-A-TNo phone number 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 usa.gov'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 usa.gov more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present usa.gov's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
