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0.0s elapsedAgentSpeed tests how easily automated agents can discover, understand, and act on bbc.co.uk. The score weights five categories of machine-readability; the ticks on the arc are the 37 individual checks behind it.
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6 access agent(s) blocked: ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, PerplexityBot, YouBot, Amazonbot. These keep your site out of AI answers. 10 training-data crawler(s) blocked (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, Meta-ExternalAgent), a licensing choice, not scored.
Show me exactly what to dorobots.txt is a small text file at yoursite.com/robots.txt where you tell visiting robots what they may read. Many sites carry an old rule that blocks ALL robots, which now also blocks the AI assistants your customers ask for recommendations.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity each send a named crawler (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot). If your robots.txt turns them away, they cannot read your pages. So when a customer asks an assistant about your product, the assistant answers from what everyone ELSE says about you, or recommends a competitor it could read.
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Weakest on this scan: discoverability, 40/100 — the signals agents use to find and navigate this site are thin or missing.
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This score is a measurement of machine-readability for automated agents under the published rubric 2026.11.0. AgentSpeed does not assess security, legitimacy, privacy, or financial trust.
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No HTTP Link: response headers. Emit canonical/alternate/describedby relations so HEAD-only or stream-rendering agents get them without parsing HTML.
Show me exactly what to doHTTP responses can carry a Link header: the same canonical and alternate-language information your HTML declares, but delivered in the response envelope itself. Agents that only send a HEAD request, or that decide what to do while the page is still streaming, read the header without parsing any HTML. Yours is missing (or carries none of the relations agents use: canonical, alternate, describedby).
An agent triaging fifty URLs doesn’t want to download and parse fifty pages to learn which are duplicates of which. The Link header answers at the cheapest possible layer. Sites that provide it get correctly de-duplicated and correctly language-routed even by the most minimal fetchers.
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Visible text is 1.7% of HTML weight (12203/719173 bytes). 39% of the document is inline script, 41% is markup.
Show me exactly what to doOf everything your server sends for this page, very little is actual readable text. The rest is code, styling, and markup wrapper. Agents fetched a lot of bytes and found few words.
Agents work with retrieval budgets. A page that is 2% text either gets skimmed (and mis-summarised) or skipped. More signal per byte means more of your actual message survives into the agent’s summary.
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Browser pass unavailable; HTML looks like a JS-shell (e.g. #__next / #root). Likely JS-dependent.
Show me exactly what to doYour page’s actual content (headlines, product info, pricing) only appears after JavaScript runs in a browser. Most AI agents read the raw HTML that arrives FIRST, and for your site, that first delivery is nearly empty.
An agent fetching your page gets the skeleton: navigation links, a footer, loading placeholders. It then summarises your business from a skeleton. Sites in this state get described as "this page contains little information" while the full pitch renders only for humans.
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Page looks like Product; missing JSON-LD type(s): Product.
Show me exactly what to doYour structured data exists but only covers the basics (say, Organization) while the page is really a product page, an article, or an FAQ. The machine-readable caption is missing the part that describes what this page actually is.
An agent looking for "running shoes under $100" matches against Product markup with offers. A product page carrying only Organization markup is invisible to that query shape: the agent knows who you are but not what this page sells.
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Offering identified but no price or canonical CTA found.
Show me exactly what to doWe gave an AI model the visible text of your page and asked it two questions: what does this page offer, and what is the price or main action? It could not answer from what your page serves.
This is the same task a shopping assistant performs before recommending you. If a model reading your page can’t name your offer and how to act on it, an assistant answering a customer can’t either, and it routes the recommendation somewhere it can.
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One prompt covering the fixes above that have a step-by-step plan, in the same priority order, with the same guardrails.
#7 of 28 tracked News domains
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