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stltoday.com
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Breaking News | Read St. Louis, MO and Missouri breaking news. Get latest news, events and information on Missouri sports, weather, entertainment and lifestyles.
AI Agentic Readiness
10 / 28
agentic checks passed 51% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
stltoday.com is live and passes 10 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (51%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, stltoday.com's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a clear canonical URL. Average 55% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, render-blocking resources, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. An agent can read stltoday.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 EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
~Layout Stability & Responsiveness9/11 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 558KB
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers15 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 55% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 29.5% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 2 definition pattern(s) found
~Answer Capsule PatternNo H2 headings found across sampled pages
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
✗Schema Coverage & DepthOrganization schema has only 2 key properties
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://stltoday.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
~Sitemap CompletenessNo lastmod dates in sitemap
?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 Signal8 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 stltoday.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 stltoday.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present stltoday.com'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 stltoday.com's key pages so agents see it as maintained.
