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aclu.org
American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.
AI Agentic Readiness
10 / 30
agentic checks passed 50% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
aclu.org is live and passes 10 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (50%). It runs on wordpress on cloudflare over HTTPS.
For AI agents, aclu.org's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 31.2% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are thin semantic structure, no structured tables or lists, long, hard-to-quote sentences, and few clear definitions. An agent can read aclu.org'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 ScoreHigh jargon density in opening content
✓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://aclu.org/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 SignalsOnly 1 hreflang value found - need at least 2 for proper multi-language linking
✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
~Entity Authority & E-E-A-TNo phone number found on homepage
✗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 SignalOnly machine-readable date signals were found; users still do not see a visible published or updated date
✓Title & Meta Quality1/1 titles are shorter than 10 or longer than 70 characters
✓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 aclu.org'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 aclu.org more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present aclu.org's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
