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guardian.co.uk
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
AI Agentic Readiness
9 / 28
agentic checks passed 45% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
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guardian.co.uk is live and passes 9 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (45%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, guardian.co.uk's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Average entity density 27.1% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, no self-contained answer passages, 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 & AccessibilityARIA attributes found for accessibility
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
✗Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 72.9 words - too long for AI snippets
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
✓Layout Stability & Responsiveness121/121 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 1319KB
~Page Speed: Load Blockers<head> section is 642KB - over 60KB
Machine extraction
~Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 20% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 27.1% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsNo definition patterns in the first 2000 characters of content
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/33 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (0%)
Structured data
✗Schema.org Structured DataNo JSON-LD structured data found across homepage
✗Speakable SchemaNo JSON-LD found across homepage - cannot assess speakable schema
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://guardian.co.uk/llms.txt (connection failed)
✓robots.txt for AI CrawlersSitemap URL referenced in robots.txt
✗Sitemap CompletenessNo sitemap.xml found
?RSS/Atom FeedNot assessed
✗Internationalization SignalsNo hreflang alternate links found
?Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNot assessed
Trust & transparency
✓Entity Authority & E-E-A-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage
~Creator TransparencyVisible authorship is present on some content but inconsistent
~Methodology TransparencySome process transparency exists, but it is inconsistent
~AI Assistance DisclosureNo AI-assistance disclosure found on sampled pages (neutral - the engine cannot tell whether AI was used)
~Visible Date Signal26 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 SchemaNo Person schema found across homepage
Every check is a verifiable fact about guardian.co.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 guardian.co.uk more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present guardian.co.uk's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
2 Add JSON-LD structured data critical impactmedium effort
Mark up guardian.co.uk's homepage with Schema.org JSON-LD (Organization, WebSite) an agent can read as facts.
3 Add content freshness signals high impactlow effort
Refresh and re-date guardian.co.uk's key pages so agents see it as maintained.
4 Enhance author and expert schema critical impactmedium effort
Add Person/author schema with credentials on guardian.co.uk to strengthen expertise signals.
Historical snapshot
From MarkosWeb's own measurement archive, recorded at an earlier check - data no other directory holds.
Estimated domain worth$581,463
Trust & legitimacy signals
✓Currently activeyes (HTTP 200)
✓Secure (HTTPS)yes
·Identifiable technologynot detected
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