apnews.com

Report from 9/21/2026, 9:43:08 AM https://apnews.com
Latest run · lab, cold cache
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9/21/2026
28-day score · p75 · the standard
63
25 runs
▼ latest 63 below the 28-day score
CRR0%latest
SSD65%latest
TC3706 toklatest
TTFUT49 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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What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: LOW
🟡Business nameJust a moment... · guessed from page text (no structured data)
Categorynot found
Pricenot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Locationnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Hoursnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Productsnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Descriptionnot found

An agent is likely to fabricate missing details rather than say “I don’t know”. 0/3 applicable facts come from machine-readable structured data.

An agent recovered no usable content from this page without executing JavaScript.
0
Overall score
weighted CAV (0–100)
FAIL
0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

0%
CRR Content Recovery Poor
0.65
SSD Semantic Signal Density Good
3,014 tok
TC Token Cost Good
TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈60,369 across regions). 62% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content
38.3% · 23,113
Chrome (nav / header / footer)
30.2% · 18,240
Boilerplate (cookie / ad)
0% · 0
Other
31.5% · 19,016

Final screenshot

Final screenshot of https://apnews.com

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence100% of content requires JS
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 61.7% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 38.3%, chrome 30.2%, boilerplate 0%, other 31.5%. Only 38.3% 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 48/100 · Agent Blocked

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 No JSON-LD found Learn →
~ agents.json Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ WebMCP endpoint Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ OpenAPI / API docs No OpenAPI/Swagger found Learn →

Issues (7)

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

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

No login wall on public content high impact HTTP 403

Business impact Public content behind authentication is unreachable to agents (they have no account). Gate only genuinely private material.

What we measured We follow redirects and detect 401/403 and login-form signals on content pages.

How to fix Separate public marketing/docs from authenticated areas; keep public pages reachable without login.

Spec: https://llmstxt.org

Structured data (JSON-LD) medium impact No JSON-LD found

Business impact Schema.org JSON-LD tells agents what a page IS (product, article, business) with typed fields (price, rating, hours). Without it agents extract less reliably.

What we measured We parse <script type=application/ld+json>, validate it, and check for populated @type fields.

How to fix Add JSON-LD: Organization/LocalBusiness on the homepage, Product on product pages, Article on posts.

Learn how to implement →

<script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","name":"Your Co","url":"https://example.com"}</script>

Spec: https://schema.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 (4)

✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ No content-blocking cookie wall✓ 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.

78Transport posture (0–100, unscored)
4pass
0warn
1fail
Per-header findings (6)
HeaderEvidence
✅ HTTPSserved over HTTPS
❌ HSTSno strict-transport-security header
✅ Content-Security-Policypolicy present, script-src does not allow inline
✅ X-Content-Type-Optionsnosniff
✅ Referrer-Policysame-origin
➖ 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

535 third-party requests · 7278 KiB (60% of transfer) · 1704 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.tech462664 KiB309 ms
pub.network22465 KiB339 ms
gstatic.com6389 KiB15 ms
googletagmanager.com2346 KiB74 ms
viafoura.net18312 KiB137 ms
bounceexchange.com13296 KiB95 ms
doubleclick.net17285 KiB157 ms
cookielaw.org12266 KiB143 ms
ntv.io1261 KiB33 ms
confiant-integrations.net2212 KiB65 ms
html-load.cc1155 KiB32 ms
dianomi.com34152 KiB132 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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Network

604Requests
12138 KiBTransferred
130Scripts
60%3rd-party
10Long tasks
Script (130)
5803 KiB
Image (119)
3575 KiB
XHR (49)
1402 KiB
Font (13)
676 KiB
Fetch (182)
269 KiB
Document (76)
186 KiB
Stylesheet (14)
171 KiB
Other (17)
53 KiB
Manifest (1)
1 KiB
Ping (3)
1 KiB
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Long tasks (>50 ms)

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