agentic checks passed 51% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
vitae.ac.uk is live and passes 11 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (51%). It runs on wordpress on nginx over HTTPS.
For AI agents, vitae.ac.uk's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 34.9% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are no structured tables or lists, long, hard-to-quote sentences, no speakable schema for voice agents, and no llms.txt for agent discovery. An agent can read vitae.ac.uk'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 ScoreAverage sentence length: 26.8 words - slightly long
✓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 SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://vitae.ac.uk/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 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 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 Quality1/1 pages lack a usable meta description
✓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 vitae.ac.uk'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 vitae.ac.uk more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present vitae.ac.uk's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
