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utne.com
Utne
AI Agentic Readiness
12 / 30
agentic checks passed 50% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
utne.com is live and passes 12 of 30 agentic-readiness checks (50%). It runs on wordpress on Apache.
For AI agents, utne.com's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, a clear canonical URL, and a lightweight page. Average entity density 47.6% across 1 pages (target >15%).
Its main gaps are noisy markup, text that is hard for agents to extract, no structured tables or lists, and few clear definitions. The weakest area is Machine extraction; addressing it first would raise this score the most.
Agent interaction
~Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityMissing lang attribute on <html> tag
✗Clean, Crawlable HTMLSite does not support HTTPS
✗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 & Responsiveness30/36 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✗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 CompletenessSitemap index found, indicating organized sitemap structure
✗RSS/Atom FeedHomepage does not link to an RSS/Atom feed in <head>
✗Internationalization SignalsNo hreflang alternate links found
✗Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNo ai.txt file found
Trust & transparency
✓Entity Authority & E-E-A-TSocial media / sameAs references found on homepage
✗Creator TransparencyCreator visibility is weak on content-like pages
~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 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 utne.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 utne.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present utne.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
