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crooksandliars.com
Progressive news and media coverage on Crooks and Liars
AI Agentic Readiness
9 / 28
agentic checks passed 49% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
crooksandliars.com is live and passes 9 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (49%). It runs on wordpress on nginx over HTTPS.
For AI agents, crooksandliars.com's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, a lightweight page, and an efficient render path. 1 render-blocking script(s) in <head>.
Its main gaps are thin semantic structure, text that is hard for agents to extract, no canonical URL, and no structured tables or lists. The weakest area is Trust & transparency; addressing it first would raise this score the most.
Agent interaction
✗Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityHomepage has no <h1> heading
~Clean, Crawlable HTMLNo H1 tag(s) found (0)
✗Extraction Friction ScoreFew pages have voice-friendly lead paragraphs
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
✓Layout Stability & Responsiveness16/21 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Page Speed: Load Blockers1 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 50% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 68.1% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/1 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (0%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
~Schema Coverage & DepthArticle schema missing or has fewer than 2 key properties
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://crooksandliars.com/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 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 crooksandliars.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 crooksandliars.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present crooksandliars.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
