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voanews.com
VOA - Voice of America English News
AI Agentic Readiness
10 / 28
agentic checks passed 52% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
voanews.com is live and passes 10 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (52%). It is served over HTTPS.
For AI agents, voanews.com's strongest signals are fully indexable pages, a visually stable layout, a clear canonical URL, and a lightweight page. 5 render-blocking script(s) in <head>.
Its main gaps are text that is hard for agents to extract, no structured tables or lists, few clear definitions, and no self-contained answer passages. The weakest area is Trust & transparency; addressing it first would raise this score the most.
Agent interaction
~Semantic HTML5 & AccessibilityHomepage has no <h1> heading
~Clean, Crawlable HTMLNo H1 tag(s) found (0)
✗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 & Responsiveness50/51 images lack explicit width/height - the most common cause of layout shift (CLS)
✓Canonical URL StrategySingle canonical tag present (no duplicates)
✓Page Speed: Load Blockers5 render-blocking script(s) in <head>
Machine extraction
✗Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
~Sentence AtomicityAverage 33% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 44.9% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsNo definition patterns found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern0/10 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (0%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
✓Schema Coverage & DepthArticle schema has 5/7 key properties
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://voanews.com/llms.txt (connection failed)
~robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo explicit AI crawler rules in robots.txt
✓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 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 SignalOnly machine-readable date signals were found; users still do not see a visible published or updated date
✓Title & Meta QualityTitles are present, unique, and well-sized, and pages carry meta descriptions
~Content Freshness SignalsNo <time> elements found in content areas across homepage
✗Author & Expert SchemaNo Person schema found across homepage
Every check is a verifiable fact about voanews.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 voanews.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists critical impactmedium effort
Present voanews.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
