agentic checks passed 44% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
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yahoo.com is live and passes 11 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (44%). It runs on ATS over HTTPS.
For AI agents, yahoo.com's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Average 44% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. An agent can read yahoo.com'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 & AccessibilityOnly 0% of images have alt text
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
✗Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 28.7 words - slightly long
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
✓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 SizeHomepage HTML is 1706KB
~Page Speed: Load Blockers10 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 44% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 40.3% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsNo definition patterns found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/2 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (0%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on 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 FileNo llms.txt file found at https://yahoo.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
✓robots.txt for AI CrawlersSitemap URL referenced in robots.txt
✗Sitemap CompletenessNo sitemap.xml found
✗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-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage
✗Creator TransparencyCreator visibility is weak on content-like pages
~Methodology TransparencySome process transparency exists, but it is inconsistent
~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 Quality1/1 titles are shorter than 10 or longer than 70 characters
✗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 yahoo.com'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 yahoo.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present yahoo.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
