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ipsnews.net
Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South
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
ipsnews.net is live and passes 9 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (49%). It runs on wordpress on Apache over HTTPS.
For AI agents, ipsnews.net's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a clear canonical URL, a lightweight page, and dense, entity-rich content. Average entity density 63.5% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are thin semantic structure, text that is hard for agents to extract, few clear definitions, and no self-contained answer passages. An agent can read ipsnews.net'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 28% of images have alt text
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✓llms.txt FileNote: Google does not read llms.txt (its AI features rely on normal indexing); this signal serves other AI assistants and carries reduced weight
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: gptbot
✗Sitemap CompletenessNo sitemap.xml found
?RSS/Atom FeedNot assessed
✗Internationalization SignalsNo lang attribute on <html> element
?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 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 ipsnews.net'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 ipsnews.net more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present ipsnews.net's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.