agentic checks passed 53% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
usc.edu is live and passes 11 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (53%). It runs on wordpress on nginx over HTTPS.
For AI agents, usc.edu's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 32.5% across 1 pages (target >15%).
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 usc.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 & AccessibilityARIA attributes found for accessibility
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
✗Extraction Friction ScoreFew pages have voice-friendly lead paragraphs
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
~Layout Stability & Responsiveness29/29 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 1677 DOM nodes - consider simplifying
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers6 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 21% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 32.5% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsOnly 2 definition pattern(s) found
~Answer Capsule Pattern3/8 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (38%)
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://usc.edu/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✓Sitemap CompletenessSitemap index found, indicating organized sitemap structure
✗RSS/Atom FeedRSS/Atom feed link tag found in homepage <head>
✗Internationalization SignalsNo hreflang alternate links found
✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
~Entity Authority & E-E-A-TMultiple phone numbers found (4)
✓Creator TransparencyVisible authorship is present on some content but inconsistent
~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 SignalOnly machine-readable date signals were found; users still do not see a visible published or updated date
✓Title & Meta QualityTitles are present, unique, and well-sized, and pages carry meta descriptions
✓Content Freshness SignalsReferences to 2026 or 2025 found across homepage, suggesting recent updates
~Author & Expert SchemaNo Person schema found across homepage
Every check is a verifiable fact about usc.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 usc.edu more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present usc.edu's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
2 Strengthen entity authority (NAP) medium impactlow effort
Make usc.edu's name, address and phone consistent and add Organization schema to anchor its identity.
3 Add definition-style content high impactlow effort
Add clear "X is ..." definitions on usc.edu so agents can lift direct answers.
4 Add ai.txt and content licensing critical impactlow effort
State AI-use permissions for usc.edu (an ai.txt or licensing note) so agents know what they may use.
Historical snapshot
From MarkosWeb's own measurement archive, recorded at an earlier check - data no other directory holds.
Estimated domain worth$10,611,642
Health score75.07%
Indexed pages790,556
Backlinks on record1,429,961
Homepage links51 internal · 45 external
Homepage snapshots28
RegistrarEDUCASE
Name serversns1.usc.edu, ns2.usc.edu, ns3.usc.edu, nserver.apple.com
Domain age at last check34 years and 11 months
Trust & legitimacy signals
✓Currently activeyes (HTTP 200)
✓Secure (HTTPS)yes
✓Identifiable technologywordpress on nginx
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