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statesman.com
Austin American-Statesman: Austin, TX News, Politics & Sports
AI Agentic Readiness
14 / 28
agentic checks passed 56% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
statesman.com is live and passes 14 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (56%). It runs on Apache over HTTPS.
For AI agents, statesman.com's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. 48/48 images declare explicit dimensions.
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, a heavy page, no structured tables or lists, and no self-contained answer passages. An agent can read statesman.com'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 ScoreFew pages have voice-friendly lead paragraphs
✓Indexability & Snippet Eligibilityrobots.txt blocks Google-Extended - content is excluded from Google AI training and grounding
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://statesman.com/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-TSocial media / sameAs references 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 statesman.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 statesman.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present statesman.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
