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kuow.org
KUOW - KUOW News and Information: Seattle's NPR station
AI Agentic Readiness
10 / 28
agentic checks passed 56% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
kuow.org is live and passes 10 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (56%). It runs on N over HTTPS.
For AI agents, kuow.org's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, and a clear canonical URL. Approximately 1385 DOM nodes - consider simplifying.
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, no speakable schema for voice agents, no llms.txt for agent discovery, and no language/locale signals. 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 HTMLNo H1 tag(s) found (0)
✗Extraction Friction ScoreFew pages have voice-friendly lead paragraphs
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
✓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 SizeApproximately 1385 DOM nodes - consider simplifying
~Page Speed: Load Blockers2 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
~Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 57% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 46.9% across 1 pages (target >15%)
~Definition PatternsNo definition patterns in the first 2000 characters of content
~Answer Capsule PatternNo H2 headings found across sampled pages
Structured data
~Schema.org Structured DataMissing Organization or LocalBusiness schema across homepage
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://kuow.org/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot
✓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 Transparency1/1 sampled pages provide clear visible creator attribution
~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 kuow.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 kuow.org more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present kuow.org's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
