css-tricks.com
This is how AI agents (not browsers) experience css-tricks.com. The score weights five categories of machine-readability; the ticks on the arc are the 31 individual checks behind it.
Top fixes
Checks tagged “emerging” are 2026 agent-protocol standards most of the web hasn’t adopted yet — adopting early is an edge, not a defect.
Visible text is 4.4% of HTML weight (6737/151643 bytes). Low. Markup may be crowding out agent-usable text.
Fix: Heavy ad or navigation markup crowds out agent-usable text. Aim for a text-to-DOM ratio above 15%.
Consent modal detected (trustarc.com); content still visible. Verify the modal does not block first-paint for screenshot agents.
Fix: Defer cookie consent overlay until after content is visible, or render behind the primary content. Agents without JS or with ad-blocking profiles see a blank page otherwise.
2 recommended-field warning(s). First: WebPage recommends "description" (improves agent comprehension). 1 block(s) skipped — type outside the set we check.
Fix: Validate your JSON-LD with Google Rich Results test. Fix missing required properties.
TTFB 616ms. Acceptable.
Fix: Agents time out aggressively. Use edge caching for anonymous requests to cut TTFB below 800ms.
No Content-Signal directives. Add e.g. `Content-Signal: ai-train=no, ai-summarize=yes` to declare granular AI usage policy beyond binary allow/disallow.
Fix: Add `Content-Signal:` directives to your robots.txt. This is the emerging standard (Cloudflare-driven) for declaring fine-grained AI usage policy beyond a binary allow/disallow.
No valid MCP Server Card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. Publish one so agents can discover your tools without HTML scraping.
Fix: Publish an MCP Server Card describing the tools your site exposes. Agents discover capabilities via `/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json`. See modelcontextprotocol.io for the schema.
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