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AI Agentic Readiness
8 / 30
agentic checks passed 50% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
warwick.ac.uk is live and passes 8 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (50%). It runs on SiteBuilder over HTTPS.
For AI agents, warwick.ac.uk's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a clear canonical URL, and a lightweight page. Average entity density 36.4% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, no structured tables or lists, 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 27% of images have alt text
✓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 & Responsiveness26/26 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
~Page Speed: Load Blockers3 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 33% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 36.4% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
~Answer Capsule Pattern10/17 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (59%)
Structured data
~Schema.org Structured DataMissing Organization or LocalBusiness schema across homepage
✓Schema Coverage & Depth@id linking found - schema types are connected in a graph
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✓llms.txt FileNote: Google does not read llms.txt (its AI features rely on normal indexing); this signal serves other AI assistants and carries reduced weight
~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-TMultiple phone numbers found (3)
✗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 warwick.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 warwick.ac.uk more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present warwick.ac.uk's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
2 Add content freshness signals high impactlow effort
Refresh and re-date warwick.ac.uk's key pages so agents see it as maintained.
