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cbn.co.za
Cape Business News | South African Industry Business News
AI Agentic Readiness
12 / 28
agentic checks passed 56% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
cbn.co.za is live and passes 12 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (56%). It runs on wp on cloudflare over HTTPS.
For AI agents, cbn.co.za's strongest signals are tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. 304KB of inline CSS/JS in <head>.
Its main gaps are thin semantic structure, text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, and no structured tables or lists. An agent can read cbn.co.za'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 22% of images have alt text
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
✗Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 36.8 words - too long for AI snippets
✓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)
✗Page Speed: Page SizeHomepage HTML is 553KB
✓Page Speed: Load Blockers304KB of inline CSS/JS in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 35% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 58.4% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsNo definition patterns found
~Answer Capsule PatternNo H2 headings found across sampled pages
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://cbn.co.za/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✓Sitemap CompletenessSitemap index found, indicating organized sitemap structure
?RSS/Atom FeedNot assessed
✗Internationalization SignalsNo hreflang alternate links found
?Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNot assessed
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 SignaldateModified is recent (80 days ago) - freshness bonus applied
✓Title & Meta QualityTitles are present, unique, and well-sized, and pages carry meta descriptions
✓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 cbn.co.za'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 cbn.co.za more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present cbn.co.za's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
