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AI Agentic Readiness
14 / 30
agentic checks passed 59% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
zeit.de is live and passes 14 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (59%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, zeit.de's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Average 69% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
Its main gaps are a heavy page, render-blocking resources, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. An agent can read zeit.de'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 & AccessibilityARIA attributes found for accessibility
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
~Extraction Friction ScoreHigh jargon density in opening content
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
✓Layout Stability & Responsiveness159/183 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✗Page Speed: Page SizeHomepage HTML is 1355KB
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers22 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 69% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 31.7% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern3/50 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (6%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://zeit.de/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot
✓Sitemap CompletenessSitemap index found, indicating organized sitemap structure
✗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-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage
✓Creator Transparency1/1 sampled pages provide clear visible creator attribution
~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 Signal8 visible <time> element(s) with datetime attribute found across homepage
✓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 SchemaVisible author byline or attribution found
Every check is a verifiable fact about zeit.de'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 zeit.de more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present zeit.de'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 zeit.de's key pages so agents see it as maintained.
