agentic checks passed 50% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
utk.edu is live and passes 10 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (50%). It runs on wordpress on cloudflare over HTTPS.
For AI agents, utk.edu's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 29.0% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are no structured tables or lists, long, hard-to-quote sentences, few clear definitions, and no self-contained answer passages. An agent can read utk.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 & AccessibilityMissing lang attribute on <html> tag
✓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
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://utk.edu/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✗Sitemap CompletenessNo sitemap.xml found
✗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-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 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 utk.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 utk.edu more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present utk.edu's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
