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www2.nytimes.com
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos
AI Agentic Readiness
12 / 28
agentic checks passed 51% readiness - how well this site can be read, trusted and transacted with by AI agents
Last checked
www2.nytimes.com is live and passes 12 of 28 agentic-readiness checks (51%). It runs on wordpress on envoy over HTTPS.
For AI agents, www2.nytimes.com's strongest signals are clean semantic HTML, tidy, crawlable markup, fully indexable pages, and a visually stable layout. Average 62% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+).
Its main gaps are a heavy page, render-blocking resources, few clear definitions, and no self-contained answer passages. An agent can read www2.nytimes.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 ScoreHigh jargon density in opening content
✓Indexability & Snippet EligibilityPages are indexable and snippet-eligible - the precondition for Google AI features is met
✓Layout Stability & Responsiveness42/42 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 1045KB
✗Page Speed: Load Blockers27 blocking stylesheets in <head>
Machine extraction
~Table & List ExtractabilityNo HTML tables found across homepage
✓Sentence AtomicityAverage 62% atomic sentences across 1 pages (target 40%+)
✓Entity DensityAverage entity density 56.4% across 1 pages (target >15%)
✗Definition PatternsOnly 1 definition pattern(s) found
✗Answer Capsule Pattern1/14 H2 sections have 15-30 word self-contained capsules (7%)
Structured data
✓Schema.org Structured DataOrganization or LocalBusiness schema found on homepage
✓Schema Coverage & Depth@id linking found - schema types are connected in a graph
✗Speakable SchemaNo SpeakableSpecification schema found across homepage
AI discovery
✗llms.txt FileNo llms.txt file found at https://www2.nytimes.com/llms.txt (HTML page served (not a valid text file))
✗robots.txt for AI CrawlersNo robots.txt file found
✗Sitemap Completenesssitemap.xml does not contain valid XML structure
?RSS/Atom FeedNot assessed
✓Internationalization Signalsx-default hreflang is set (fallback language declared)
?Content Licensing & AI PermissionsNot assessed
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 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 www2.nytimes.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 www2.nytimes.com more agent-ready, in priority order.
1 Add structured tables and lists high impactlow effort
Present www2.nytimes.com's comparison and spec data as real HTML tables and lists agents can extract.
