www.apnews.com

Report from 7/21/2026, 10:54:40 AM https://www.apnews.com
Latest run · lab, cold cache
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7/21/2026
28-day score · p75 · the standard
5/7 runs — building history (nightly)

Scored by v3 · source-of-truth hashes: score db860d6ac94e · thresholds e94f8b33e500 — verifiable against the canonical scorer.

The 28-day score is the p75 of nightly runs — the stable number to cite. Deterministic metrics (CRR/SSD/TC) show their latest value (they move only when the site changes); timing (TTFUT) and answer-fidelity (AF) are smoothed by 28-day p75 — the same lab-vs-field split Core Web Vitals uses. Synthetic daily measurement, not real-user field data.

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What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: LOW
Business nameAssociated Press News
CategoryNewsMediaOrganization
🟡Price$3.47 · guessed from page text (no structured data)
Locationnot found
Hoursnot found
Productsnot found
🟡DescriptionRead the latest headlines, breaking news, and videos at APNews.com, the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe. · guessed from page text (no structured data)

An agent is likely to fabricate missing details rather than say “I don’t know”. 2/7 applicable facts come from machine-readable structured data.

63
Overall score
weighted CAV (0–100)
WARN
0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

91%
CRR Content Recovery Needs work
0.67
SSD Semantic Signal Density Good
3,574 tok
TC Token Cost Good
57 ms
TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈76,484 across regions). 47% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content
52.9% · 40,454
Chrome (nav / header / footer)
22.4% · 17,134
Boilerplate (cookie / ad)
1.1% · 857
Other
23.6% · 18,039

Final screenshot

Final screenshot of https://www.apnews.com

Diagnostics

medium CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence9% of content requires JS · 91% of rendered content recovered (rest is placeholder/wrong)
ImpactA non-rendering agent never sees the JS-injected content.
Effort1–4 h

Fix: Server-render or statically generate the main content so a non-JS agent still receives it; make client rendering a progressive enhancement, not the source of truth.

medium TC 47.1% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 52.9%, chrome 22.4%, boilerplate 1.1%, other 23.6%. Only 52.9% of the agent's tokens are real content.
ImpactAn agent pays for boilerplate on every request and has less context left for the real content.
Effort30–90 min

Fix: Strip repeated nav/header/footer/cookie chrome from the agent-visible output; wrap content in <main>/<article> so the extractor keeps signal and drops boilerplate.

Rendered profile: headless

Agent Discoverability 71/100 · Needs Work

Access & discovery checks — separate from the gated CAV metrics above. Click an issue for business impact, what we measured, and how to fix. · Take the Agent Readiness course →

Agent files & endpoints

llms.txt Absent at /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt Learn →
robots.txt (AI bots) Blocks: * (all) Learn →
sitemap.xml Found at /sitemap.xml Learn →
JSON-LD structured data Types: WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization Learn →
~ agents.json Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ WebMCP endpoint Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ OpenAPI / API docs No OpenAPI/Swagger found Learn →

Issues (6)

robots.txt allows AI bots high impact Blocks: * (all)

Business impact If robots.txt blocks AI crawlers you are invisible to ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity — they skip you and recommend a competitor instead.

What we measured We read /robots.txt and test it against 16 AI user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …) for a Disallow that blocks them.

How to fix Allow major AI bots to public content; restrict only private paths (/admin, /api).

Learn how to implement →

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Spec: https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

~ No content-blocking cookie wall medium impact Consent platform: onetrust (verify it doesn't block content)

Business impact A consent wall that hides content until a click is invisible to agents — they cannot click 'Accept'.

What we measured We fingerprint OneTrust, Cookiebot, Usercentrics and similar managers and flag content-blocking ones.

How to fix Use an overlay banner that leaves content in the DOM, not a blocking interstitial.

Spec: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

llms.txt present high impact Absent at /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt

Business impact llms.txt is the robots.txt for AI: it tells agents what your site is, what matters, and where to find it. Without it AI guesses — and guessing means inaccurate recommendations and lost visibility.

What we measured We fetch /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt and validate the spec (H1 title + a one-line blockquote summary). We also note /llms-full.txt (your full content as Markdown).

How to fix Create /llms.txt with a short summary + key pages; optionally /llms-full.txt with full content in Markdown.

Learn how to implement →

# Your Site
> One-line description for AI agents.

## Key pages
- /products — catalog
- /pricing — plans
- /docs — documentation

Spec: https://llmstxt.org

~ agents.json discovery low impact Absent (emerging standard)

Business impact agents.json describes what your site can DO for agents (services, endpoints, capabilities) — an emerging discovery standard. Early adopters get native agent integration.

What we measured We check /agents.json and /.well-known/agents.json for a valid configuration.

How to fix Publish /agents.json describing your site's capabilities and actions.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json

~ WebMCP endpoint low impact Absent (emerging standard)

Business impact WebMCP lets agents call actions on your site directly (book, buy, query) instead of scraping the DOM. Early adopters get native AI-agent interoperability.

What we measured We check /.well-known/webmcp and /webmcp.json for a valid actions array.

How to fix Add a WebMCP endpoint exposing your key actions to agents.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://webmcp.org

~ API documentation low impact No OpenAPI/Swagger found

Business impact Programmatic agents prefer a typed API. An OpenAPI/Swagger spec lets them integrate without scraping.

What we measured We probe /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs and /.well-known/openapi.json.

How to fix Publish an OpenAPI spec at a well-known path.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://www.openapis.org/

Passed audits (6)

✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ Machine-readable prices✓ No login wall on public content✓ Structured data (JSON-LD)✓ XML sitemap present + fresh✓ Server response (TTFB)

Transport & Trust (SEC 1.0.0)

HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, sniffing, referrer and CORS posture. Diagnostic only — this does not affect the CAV score. A security header does not make a page more legible to an agent, so scoring it would reward a CDN toggle that changes nothing an agent can recover. We measure it and say so.

81Transport posture (0–100, unscored)
3pass
1warn
1fail
Per-header findings (6)
HeaderEvidence
✅ HTTPSserved over HTTPS
✅ HSTSmax-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
✅ Content-Security-Policypolicy present, script-src does not allow inline
❌ X-Content-Type-Optionsmissing nosniff
⚠️ Referrer-Policyno referrer-policy header (browser default applies)
➖ CORS exposureno CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page)
Full profile — how to improve · unused JS · network · timing

How to improve

highProfile reflects a block/challenge page — not your contenthighest leverage

whole profile

EvidenceMeasured against a block/challenge page (a bot-wall/CAPTCHA was served (www.gstatic.com)); every number here describes the wall, not your site.
ImpactAn AI agent hits the same wall and recovers none of your content — fix the block before optimizing anything else.
FixAllowlist legitimate agent user-agents / IP ranges in your WAF or bot-management and serve real content (not a challenge), then re-run.

Third-party impact

599 third-party requests · 7869 KiB (71.8% of transfer) · 44919 ms main-thread — code an agent must also fetch/run before your content settles. Fewer, lazier third-parties = faster, cheaper agent reads.

Third-party domainReqsTransferMain-thread
primis.tech631933 KiB19556 ms
jwpsrv.com14664 KiB
pub.network23438 KiB2472 ms
jwpcdn.com9412 KiB2537 ms
gstatic.com4396 KiB
googletagmanager.com2337 KiB571 ms
viafoura.net18312 KiB2539 ms
bounceexchange.com13292 KiB2584 ms
doubleclick.net17283 KiB632 ms
cookielaw.org12266 KiB1441 ms
ntv.io1260 KiB198 ms
confiant-integrations.net2217 KiB295 ms

Wasted JavaScript (by bundle)

Transfer-accurate — each bundle's transfer size × its unused %, ranked by wasted bytes (the biggest code-splitting wins). Unused JS also inflates Token Cost (TC).

BundleTransferUnusedWasted
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https://s.ntv.io/serve/load.js 3P260 KiB82.7%215 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202607170101/pubads_impl.js?cb=31099833 3P196 KiB57.4%113 KiB
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https://html-load.cc/script/YXBuZXdzLmNvbQ.js 3P145 KiB72.1%104 KiB
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https://assets.apnews.com/resource/00000188-2a81-d28a-a1fd-7bfb6ccb0000/styles/default/All.min.ff2ba6899876ee78a1e76c66d6a06a13.gz.js111 KiB83.9%93 KiB
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Network

676Requests
10964 KiBTransferred
141Scripts
71.8%3rd-party
10Long tasks
Script (141)
6137 KiB
Image (142)
2535 KiB
XHR (86)
583 KiB
Font (11)
516 KiB
Media (5)
515 KiB
Fetch (177)
310 KiB
Document (70)
171 KiB
Stylesheet (14)
148 KiB
Other (22)
46 KiB
Manifest (1)
1 KiB
Ping (7)
1 KiB
Heaviest requests (30)
URLTypeStatusTransfer
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Long tasks (>50 ms)

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