york.ac.uk

University of York

AI Agentic Readiness

8 / 30

agentic checks passed
41% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents

Last checked
7 Jul 2026

york.ac.uk is live and passes 8 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (41%). It runs on cloudflare over HTTPS.

For AI agents, york.ac.uk's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a lightweight page. Average 41% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).

Its main gaps are no canonical URL, no structured tables or lists, few clear definitions, and no Schema.org structured data. The weakest area is Structured data; addressing it first would raise this score the most.

Agent interaction

~Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityOnly 11% of images have alt text

✓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 StrategyNo canonical URL tag found

✓Page Speed: Page SizeLightweight document structure

✓Page Speed: Load BlockersEfficient critical rendering path

Machine extraction

✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage

✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 41% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)

✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 25.7% across 1 pages (target >15%)

✗Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found

~Answer Capsule Pattern3/7 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (43%)

Structured data

✗Schema.org Structured DataNo JSON-LD structured data found across homepage

✗Schema Coverage & DepthNo JSON-LD found - cannot assess schema coverage

✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema

AI discovery

✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://york.ac.uk/llms.txt (connection failed)

✗robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules 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-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 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 york.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 york.ac.uk more agent-ready, in priority order.

1 Add structured tables and lists critical impact medium effort

Present york.ac.uk's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.

2 Add content freshness signals critical impact medium effort

Refresh and re-date york.ac.uk's key pages so agents see it as maintained.

3 Strengthen entity authority (NAP) high impact low effort

Make york.ac.uk's name, address and phone consistent and add Organization schema to anchor its identity.

4 Add JSON-LD structured data critical impact medium effort

Mark up york.ac.uk's homepage with Schema.org JSON-LD (Organization, WebSite) an agent can read as facts.

Trust & legitimacy signals

✓Currently activeyes (HTTP 200)

✓Secure (HTTPS)yes

✓Identifiable technologycloudflare

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Agentic readiness for york.ac.uk last checked 7 Jul 2026. Machine-readable: JSON. Method: methodology.