Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / askmen.com

D

askmen.com

6/12 · 50% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-13 16:33 UTC in 8.3s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Crawler access (+2 points): Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
  2. Machine-readable surfaces (+1 point): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix
  3. Structured data (+1 point): add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

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Crawler access (robots.txt)

0/2 · fail

1 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 7 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 6.0 KB, 3 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: Google-Extended (via *)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.askmen.com/sitemap-index.xml

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published (a sitemap is declared in robots.txt)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 410
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 410
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 410
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 410
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 410
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 410
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.askmen.com/sitemap-index.xml

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.

Readable without JavaScript

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://askmen.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.askmen.com/), text/html, 78 KB
  • 3,854 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "AskMen - Become A Better Man"
  • 4 external scripts, 9 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "AskMen Sign up Log In Log Out Preferences AskMen News All Career & Money Dating Entertainment Food & Booze Health Home & Auto Style & Fashio..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

No JSON-LD, Open Graph complete

  • 0 JSON-LD blocks
  • Open Graph: og:title "AskMen - Become a Better Man"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

1/2 · warn

Exposes /mcp but is not in the census

  • census unavailable (refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time )
  • GET /mcp -> HTTP 410 (application/json): an endpoint answers
  • Index MCP probe record: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time

Fix: Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you.

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