News leaderboard
Newsrooms, beat coverage, wire services. Agents cite news heavily; structured Article schema, dateline, and byline are the discriminator between "quoted" and "skipped".
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We surface only real, completed public scans. Once enough news domains have a public score on AgentSpeed, this leaderboard fills in automatically.
Scan your site →News sites are some of the most-cited content on the agent web. Agents that surface a news answer almost always cite Article schema explicitly: headline, author, datePublished, mainEntityOfPage, publisher. Sites that ship Article schema on every story dominate citation share even when their organic SEO lags.
Article without datePublished
Without a clear publication date, agents cannot rank "fresh" coverage and skip your story for one that has it.
No author Person schema
Article.author should be a Person object with name + url. Agents cite stories with structured authorship more reliably.
Headline mismatch between og:title and <h1>
When the social card headline differs from the page H1, agents cite whichever they encounter first, and the citation gets stale fast.
Paywall blocks the body
When the article body is hidden behind a paywall, agents quote the dek or the meta description as if it were the article.
- 01Add Article (or NewsArticle) JSON-LD with headline, author, datePublished, mainEntityOfPage.
- 02Set publisher to an Organization with a stable @id and logo.
- 03Keep og:title, <title>, and the H1 identical.
- 04For paywalls, allow Googlebot + named AI bots first-click-free, or render a meaningful preview.
- 05Publish a sitemap-news.xml + /llms.txt with Sections, About, Editorial Standards.
Each row is the latest completed public scan for one domain. Composite is a 0–100 weighted average of five sub-scores; grade is bound to a published band table. The rubric (current and prior versions) is at /rubric.
How are scores calculated?
Every score is the output of the public AgentSpeed rubric. The full check list, weights, and grade bands are at /rubric. New scans use the current active rubric; historical scans render against their original rubric.
How do I get my domain on the leaderboard?
Visit the scanner and submit a URL to generate a score. Every completed public scan creates a permanent score page and makes the domain eligible for ranking. There’s no application process and no editorial gate.
How do I remove my site?
Add User-agent: AgentSpeedBot / Disallow: / to your robots.txt. On the next scan we honour it automatically and the public score page is replaced with a removal notice. See /bot.
Scan an article URL to verify Article schema + dateline + author surface.
Side-by-side composite, sub-scores, and per-category winner. Permanent shareable URL.
Every check in the rubric has a remediation page with paste-ready snippets.
Crawler matrix, llms.txt analyzer, structured-data validator, and seven more.