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smh.com.au
Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au
AI Agentic Readiness
8 / 28
agentic checks passed 49% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
smh.com.au is live and passes 8 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (49%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, smh.com.au's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a clear canonical URL. Average entity density 29.9% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are a heavy page, render-blocking resources, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. An agent can read smh.com.au'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 & AccessibilityARIA attributes found for accessibility
✓Clean, Crawlable HTMLPage has title and meta description
~Extraction Friction ScoreAverage sentence length: 29.2 words - slightly long
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
~Layout Stability & Responsiveness83/95 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 1206KB
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers<head> section is 246KB - over 60KB
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 34% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 29.9% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 2 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern5/26 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (19%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataAdvisory (not scored): local-business/product schema detected - Google AI responses also draw on Google Business Profiles and Merchant Center feeds, which are managed outside the website
~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://smh.com.au/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersAI crawlers BLOCKED: gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot
✗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 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 Signal12 visible <time> element(s) with datetime attribute found across homepage
✓Title & Meta Quality1/1 titles are shorter than 10 or longer than 70 characters
~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 smh.com.au'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 smh.com.au more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present smh.com.au's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
2 Add content freshness signals high impactlow effort
Refresh and re-date smh.com.au's key pages so agents see it as maintained.
