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This is how AI agents (not browsers) experience dev.to. 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.
No reachable sitemap.xml. Publish one and reference it in robots.txt.
Fix · Webflow: Publish /sitemap.xml and reference it from robots.txt with a Sitemap: line.
No JSON-LD blocks found. Add a <script type="application/ld+json"> with a schema.org type for this page.
Fix · Webflow: Add JSON-LD in Page Settings → Custom Code (inside <head>) for the page’s type.
Visible text is 3.3% of HTML weight (8600/260416 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%.
A Link: header is present but carries none of canonical/alternate/describedby — the relations agents consume.
Fix: Emit `Link:` headers for canonical, alternate-language, and describedby relations. Agents that fetch HEAD-only or stream-render rely on these.
Heading issues: 1 skipped level(s).
Fix: Use a single H1 and avoid skipping heading levels (H1 → H3).
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.
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