Top fixes
- MCP census entry (+2 points): Expose a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp (or a paid x402 route) so agents can call you, not just read you. How to fix
- Crawler access (+1 point): Add a group for ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
- 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
Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.
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Crawler access (robots.txt)
1/2 · warn
5 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 3 disallowed
- GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 2.2 KB, 13 user-agent groups
- Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (31 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (31 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (31 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (31 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (31 path rules)
- Disallowed: ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider
- Sitemap declared: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/latest.xml, https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/google-news.xml, https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/index.xml (+4)
Fix: Add a group for ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider 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 404
- /sitemap.xml: HTTP 404
- /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
- /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
- /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 404
- /openapi.json: HTTP 404
- /ai.txt: HTTP 404
- Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/latest.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
1/2 · warn
Home page is partly JS-dependent
- GET https://businessinsider.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.businessinsider.com/), text/html, 603 KB
- 8,644 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Business Insider - Latest News in Tech, Markets, Economy & Innovation"
- 2 external scripts, 28 inline; <noscript> present
- empty root container found (<div id="app-banner-entry" class="bifrost-entry bottom hidden">): the page is assembled by JavaScript
- first words: "Business Tech Markets Lifestyle Military & Defense Reviews Video Level Up Games Community Newsletters Subscribe Read Watch Listen Tour Intro..."
Fix: Move the essentials (what you do, prices, contact, key pages) into server-rendered HTML instead of loading them with JavaScript.
Structured data
2/2 · pass
2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete
- 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type CollectionPage, ItemList, ListItem, WebSite
- Open Graph: og:title "Business Insider - Latest News in Tech, Markets, Economy & Innovation"; og:description present
- meta description: present
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Legal notices (TAKE IT DOWN desk check)
not measured
Unavailable
- takeitdown.agentexchange.work/check.json: refused takeitdown.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would - unavailable
Fix: Re-run in a few minutes; the notice check could not be completed.
MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)
0/2 · fail
Not selling to agents: no census entry, no /mcp endpoint
- 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 404: no MCP endpoint at the root
Fix: Expose a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp (or a paid x402 route) so agents can call you, not just read you.
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