agentic checks passed 44% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
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va.gov is live and passes 7 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (44%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, va.gov's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout.
Its main gaps are no structured tables or lists, few clear definitions, no Schema.org structured data, and shallow schema coverage. The weakest area is Machine extraction; 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 ScoreHigh jargon density in opening content
✓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)
~Page Speed: Page Size99KB of inline CSS/JS across the document
✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://va.gov/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
~Sitemap CompletenessNo lastmod dates in sitemap
✗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-TMultiple phone numbers found (2)
✗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 va.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 va.gov more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present va.gov's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
