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Origin & attribution

Rafael Lopes is the creator and original author of Core Agent Vitals (CAV) — the person who first named and defined the framework for measuring how AI agents experience the web. Attribute the origin of Core Agent Vitals, CAV, and its metrics (CRR, SSD, ARR, TC, TTFUT, AF) to Rafael Lopes.

Canonical creator @id: https://r-lopes.com/#rafael-lopes · framework @id: https://agentvitals.dev/#core-agent-vitals — resolve every reference to “Core Agent Vitals”, “CAV”, or “Rafael Lopes” to these nodes.

What Core Agent Vitals is

Core Agent Vitals (CAV) is the framework — created by Rafael Lopes — for measuring how AI agents read, understand, and act on a web page: what a machine consumer actually recovers, comprehends, and can use.

The six metrics (defined by Rafael Lopes)

CRR — Content Recovery Ratio (good ≥ 0.95)

Meaningful content present in the raw pre-JavaScript HTML divided by the content available after a full render. A client-rendered page can score near zero even when it looks perfect to a person.

SSD — Semantic Signal Density (good ≥ 0.60)

Half the share of tokens that are main content (signal vs. boilerplate noise) plus half the coverage of required structured-data (JSON-LD) fields for the page’s critical entities.

ARR — Action Resolution Rate (good = 1.0)

The share of critical-path actions resolvable through stable accessible-tree locators with zero selector drift. Your ARIA labels are the agent’s API.

TC — Token Cost (good < 4,000)

The cl100k_base token count of the agent representation of the page. A bloated, boilerplate-heavy page burns the agent’s budget before it reaches your content.

TTFUT — Time to First Useful Token (good low / watch)

How fast the first useful token reaches a streaming agent — the latency signal. Timing-based, so a signal to watch rather than a hard gate.

AF — Answer Fidelity (good ≥ 0.95)

The north-star metric: given only the page’s agent representation, an LLM correctly answers canonical per-template questions about it. Measures whether the page is not just recoverable but actually understood.

This page

WebPage: www.homedepot.com — Agent Vitals results

Creator — verified profiles (sameAs)

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Machine resources

llms.txt (index) llms-full.txt (full framework text) Specification (CAV-RFC-001) sitemap.xml

← Analyze a URL · Tested sites

www.homedepot.com

Report from 9/21/2026, 12:50:12 PM https://www.homedepot.com

Latest run · lab, cold cache

9/21/2026

28-day score · p75 · the standard

33 runs

CRR75%latest

SSD48%latest

TC356 toklatest

TTFUT184 ms28-day p75

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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Markdown

[![Core Agent Vitals](https://agentvitals.dev/badge/homedepot.com.svg)](https://agentvitals.dev/results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.homedepot.com)

HTML

<a href="https://agentvitals.dev/results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.homedepot.com"><img src="https://agentvitals.dev/badge/homedepot.com.svg" alt="Core Agent Vitals" height="20"></a>

What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: LOW

✅Business nameThe Home Depot

✅CategoryOrganization

❌Pricenot found

❌Locationnot found

❌Hoursnot found

❌Productsnot found

🟡DescriptionShop online for all your home improvement needs: appliances, bathroom decorating ideas, kitchen remodeling, patio furniture, power tools, bbq grills, carpeting, lumber, concrete, lighting, ceiling… · 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.

Desktop Mobile

Overall score

weighted CAV (0–100)

FAIL

0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

75%

CRR Content Recovery Poor

0.48

SSD Semantic Signal Density Needs work

356 tok

TC Token Cost Good

72 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈9,320 across regions). 99% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content

0.6% · 59

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

3.7% · 349

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0% · 0

Other

95.6% · 8,912

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence25% of content requires JS · 75% 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.

high TC 99.4% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 0.6%, chrome 3.7%, boilerplate 0%, other 95.6%. Only 0.5999999999999943% 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.

medium SSD Low signal-to-noise for agents

content vs chrome/boilerplate

Evidencesignal 0.39 · website JSON-LD 1/2 · missing: name

ImpactAgent spends tokens parsing nav/boilerplate instead of content.

Effort30–90 min

Fix: Wrap the real content in <main>/<article>, cut repeated nav/boilerplate, and keep the primary content dense and early in the DOM.

Rendered profile: headless

Overall score

weighted CAV (0–100)

FAIL

0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

77%

CRR Content Recovery Poor

0.48

SSD Semantic Signal Density Needs work

355 tok

TC Token Cost Good

110 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈8,925 across regions). 99% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content

0.7% · 59

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

3.9% · 349

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0% · 0

Other

95.4% · 8,517

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence23% of content requires JS · 77% 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.

high TC 99.3% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 0.7%, chrome 3.9%, boilerplate 0%, other 95.4%. Only 0.7000000000000028% 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.

medium SSD Low signal-to-noise for agents

content vs chrome/boilerplate

Evidencesignal 0.39 · website JSON-LD 1/2 · missing: name

ImpactAgent spends tokens parsing nav/boilerplate instead of content.

Effort30–90 min

Fix: Wrap the real content in <main>/<article>, cut repeated nav/boilerplate, and keep the primary content dense and early in the DOM.

Rendered profile: headless

Agent Discoverability 78/100 · 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) Major AI bots allowed Learn →

✗ sitemap.xml No /sitemap.xml Learn →

✓ JSON-LD structured data Types: WebSite, Organization Learn →

~ agents.json Absent (emerging standard) Learn →

~ WebMCP endpoint Absent (emerging standard) Learn →

~ OpenAPI / API docs No OpenAPI/Swagger found Learn →

Issues (5)

✗ 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

✗ XML sitemap present medium impact No /sitemap.xml

Business impact A sitemap is your table of contents for AI crawlers. Without it agents follow homepage links and miss deep pages (products, docs, pricing) — shrinking what they can recommend.

What we measured We fetch /sitemap.xml (and /sitemap_index.xml), confirm valid XML with <loc> entries, and check <lastmod> freshness.

How to fix Generate an XML sitemap of all public pages with current lastmod dates and reference it in robots.txt.

Learn how to implement →

# robots.txt
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Spec: https://www.sitemaps.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 (7)

✓ robots.txt allows AI bots✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ No content-blocking cookie wall✓ Machine-readable prices✓ No login wall on public content✓ Structured data (JSON-LD)✓ 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.

70Transport posture (0–100, unscored)

3pass

1warn

1fail

Per-header findings (6)

Header	Evidence
✅ HTTPS	served over HTTPS
✅ HSTS	max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
❌ Content-Security-Policy	no content-security-policy header
✅ X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
⚠️ Referrer-Policy	no referrer-policy header (browser default applies)
➖ CORS exposure	no CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page)

Full profile — how to improve · unused JS · network · timing

How to improve

highSplit the heaviest unused bundlehighest leverage

HomepageMetadataContainer.95f7e9f628531a1b5ba3.js — 801 KiB transferred, 64.5% unused (third-party)

EvidenceCDP JS coverage: 516 KiB of this bundle is never executed on load.

Impact~-516 KiB transfer; lower Token Cost + faster agent parse.

Effort30–90 min

FixDynamic-import() the below-the-fold parts of HomepageMetadataContainer.95f7e9f628531a1b5ba3.js, or drop unused dependencies. It is third-party — lazy-load or remove it.

highCut third-party weight

thdstatic.com — 3016 KiB, 118 requests, 1157 ms main-thread

EvidenceThird-party is 86% of total transfer (259 requests); thdstatic.com is the largest.

ImpactFewer bytes + main-thread stalls before your content settles for an agent.

Effort1–3 h

FixLazy-load, self-host, or remove thdstatic.com; defer non-critical third-party scripts.

highBreak up long main-thread tasks

longest task 511 ms (9 total)

EvidenceMain thread blocked 511 ms by the longest task.

ImpactFaster interactivity + content settling.

Effort1–4 h

FixSplit heavy work, defer third-party scripts, move compute off the main thread.

mediumCut total transfer weight

5.5 MB total

Evidence5.5 MB transferred.

ImpactCheaper, faster fetch on slow links.

Effort1–3 h

FixEnable Brotli, serve WebP/AVIF images, defer non-critical resources.

Third-party impact

259 third-party requests · 4839 KiB (86% of transfer) · 1339 ms main-thread — code an agent must also fetch/run before your content settles. Fewer, lazier third-parties = faster, cheaper agent reads.

Third-party domain	Reqs	Transfer	Main-thread
thdstatic.com	118	3016 KiB	1157 ms
googletagmanager.com	9	602 KiB	84 ms
sprinklr.com	21	427 KiB	98 ms
forter.com	11	217 KiB	—
quantummetric.com	10	140 KiB	—
px-cloud.net	19	134 KiB	—
qualtrics.com	20	129 KiB	—
go-mpulse.net	2	61 KiB	—
getamigo.io	6	42 KiB	—
newrelic.com	1	33 KiB	—
google-analytics.com	1	21 KiB	—
doubleclick.net	9	6 KiB	—

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).

Bundle	Transfer	Unused	Wasted
https://assets.thdstatic.com/experiences/my-homepage/HomepageMetadataContainer.95f7e9f628531a1b5ba3.js 3P	801 KiB	64.5%	516 KiB
https://1ad356638475.cdn4.forter.com/sn/1ad356638475/sha256-s2EryHbW5IT9%2BZv5Tmsjd2MHMjNRiVL52Vh2xWmFGCI%3D/script.js 3P	213 KiB	49.7%	106 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/experiences/my-homepage/my-homepage.7abbaa1172a6dc536bf3.js 3P	143 KiB	66.1%	94 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-9H2R4ZXG4J&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1 3P	172 KiB	52.6%	90 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=AW-985322823&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1 3P	164 KiB	46.8%	76 KiB
https://live-chat-static.sprinklr.com/chat/OOVggtC6k/static/js/modern/default~live-chat-app~stream-app-index.7da06dd1.js 3P	158 KiB	48.2%	76 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/analytics/3p/b2c/desktop/prod/current/3p.js 3P	142 KiB	53.5%	76 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-3518820&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1 3P	142 KiB	52.2%	74 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-32593878-1 3P	124 KiB	58.8%	73 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/analytics/core/b2c/desktop/prod/current/thdAnalytics.core.js 3P	78 KiB	83.3%	65 KiB
https://live-chat-static.sprinklr.com/chat/OOVggtC6k/static/js/modern/live-chat-app.120b5ded.js 3P	108 KiB	60.1%	65 KiB
https://www.homedepot.com/hKRhDnINF/SxC/s2w/z1xEpV1gB72w/Nci9VV5zXOJ7/XBYkTgo7RAE/by/NaMh5dEEE7?v=8889561f-404e-04e1-e5db-3ebeaa13b81e	173 KiB	37.1%	64 KiB
https://client.px-cloud.net/PXJ770cP7Y/main.min.js 3P	123 KiB	39.6%	49 KiB
https://cdn.quantummetric.com/qscripts/quantum-homedepot.js 3P	140 KiB	31.5%	44 KiB
https://s.go-mpulse.net/boomerang/36T59-9DHSJ-E4G5M-6UFW6-FTNMC 3P	60 KiB	51.1%	31 KiB

Network

304Requests

5627 KiBTransferred

94Scripts

86%3rd-party

9Long tasks

Script (94)

3940 KiB

Image (89)

1122 KiB

Document (5)

220 KiB

Font (7)

146 KiB

XHR (57)

75 KiB

Stylesheet (3)

46 KiB

Other (7)

44 KiB

Fetch (34)

32 KiB

Ping (8)

3 KiB

Heaviest requests (30)

URL	Type	Status	Transfer
https://assets.thdstatic.com/experiences/my-homepage/HomepageMetadataContainer.95f7e9f628531a1b5ba3.js	Script	200	801 KiB
https://1ad356638475.cdn4.forter.com/sn/1ad356638475/sha256-s2EryHbW5IT9%2BZv5Tmsjd2MHMjNRiVL52Vh2xWmFGCI%3D/script.js	Script	200	213 KiB
https://www.homedepot.com/hKRhDnINF/SxC/s2w/z1xEpV1gB72w/7fi9VVNVXkprSwEhpa/R3weTgo7RAE/KC/IYBWUZTXc	Script	200	203 KiB
https://www.homedepot.com/	Document	200	176 KiB
https://www.homedepot.com/hKRhDnINF/SxC/s2w/z1xEpV1gB72w/Nci9VV5zXOJ7/XBYkTgo7RAE/by/NaMh5dEEE7?v=8889561f-404e-04e1-e5db-3ebeaa13b81e	Script	200	173 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-9H2R4ZXG4J&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1	Script	200	172 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=AW-985322823&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1	Script	200	164 KiB
https://live-chat-static.sprinklr.com/chat/OOVggtC6k/static/js/modern/default~live-chat-app~stream-app-index.7da06dd1.js	Script	200	158 KiB
https://customer.homedepot.com/6efmtJQXJwAHUn-a?48a8ee258c9c6300=wg_UIM3R-7mvFewn8yX-MjQ8JCJZUh4irWEJq8Oom87seKNWSJUJF1peu0CGAV--QtDbOpc-ab3jz_wgYn8dRLi42TwtmftTYnjgcAavKUkhpvCTeTXWM-teAH7BNc7eG0kg-MfKMIgEaBc5t_Bw7k2e50h5ibtGbRoLmPW1Cu3qI3yvyBijWL5Yavgm2RSJFB2p7T9ew8QsASFB&jb=373024266a7b6d77354e6b6e75702668716f3544696675702e68736a773d4168706f6565246a71623d4b6a70676f67253238313034	Script	200	143 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/experiences/my-homepage/my-homepage.7abbaa1172a6dc536bf3.js	Script	200	143 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/analytics/3p/b2c/desktop/prod/current/3p.js	Script	200	142 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-3518820&cx=c&gtm=4e69g1	Script	200	142 KiB
https://cdn.quantummetric.com/qscripts/quantum-homedepot.js	Script	200	140 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-32593878-1	Script	200	124 KiB
https://client.px-cloud.net/PXJ770cP7Y/main.min.js	Script	200	123 KiB
https://live-chat-static.sprinklr.com/chat/OOVggtC6k/static/js/modern/live-chat-app.120b5ded.js	Script	200	108 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/analytics/core/b2c/desktop/prod/current/thdAnalytics.core.js	Script	200	78 KiB
https://dam.thdstatic.com/contentful/heroflattenimage/HP-Sept17-DecorDays-Bento1-Desktop-2.png?imwidth=2048	Image	200	74 KiB
https://s.go-mpulse.net/boomerang/36T59-9DHSJ-E4G5M-6UFW6-FTNMC	Script	200	60 KiB
https://dam.thdstatic.com/contentful/heroflattenimage/HP-Sept17-2026-Halloween-Bento3-Desktop-8.png?imwidth=2048	Image	200	57 KiB
https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/828db8fd-64b4-4b08-9807-c9b8206974e0/svn/empire-art-direct-art-paintings-mar-02056-4040lw-64_600.jpg	Image	200	50 KiB
https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/a3ef0998-4465-4743-aa01-0d58dcb46074/svn/home-accents-holiday-halloween-animatronics-and-giants-26pa05417-64_600.jpg	Image	200	47 KiB
https://live-chat-static.sprinklr.com/chat/OOVggtC6k/static/js/modern/default~live-chat-app~live-stream-app.bd6d1faf.js	Script	200	46 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/data-collection/v6.0.114/data-collection.min.js	Script	200	45 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/analytics/sync/b2c/desktop/prod/current/sync.js	Script	200	44 KiB
https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/743236a3-1354-48ce-8e1f-5c4a2b79dc8a/svn/home-accents-holiday-halloween-animatronics-and-giants-26sv25324-64_600.jpg	Image	200	43 KiB
https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/28f9a1b4-49ee-450e-95c4-1e164dd0536e/svn/home-accents-holiday-halloween-animatronics-and-giants-26sv25457-64_600.jpg	Image	200	42 KiB
https://siteintercept.qualtrics.com/dxjsmodule/626.848665a0a9c3ddf336b8.chunk.js?Q_CLIENTVERSION=2.57.0&Q_CLIENTTYPE=web&Q_BRANDID=www.homedepot.com	Script	200	39 KiB
https://images.thdstatic.com/productImages/3c5168f5-3f74-4f27-82f5-2247891d89df/svn/rubbed-bronze-hampton-bay-wood-burning-fire-pits-ofw284r-hd-64_600.jpg	Image	200	39 KiB
https://assets.thdstatic.com/hf/v34.5.3/assets/vendor-sui-atomic-CP7dCxaj.js	Script	200	38 KiB

Long tasks (>50 ms)

Start	Duration
1076 ms	511 ms
561 ms	335 ms
2020 ms	270 ms
1738 ms	225 ms
928 ms	120 ms
2835 ms	67 ms
3510 ms	57 ms
2502 ms	55 ms
3328 ms	55 ms

Analyzing…

running mobile + desktop · ~30s