Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / fredericknewspost.com

F

fredericknewspost.com

4/12 · 33% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-21 05:57 UTC in 1.8s · 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. Structured data (+2 points): add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant); add og:title and og:description so answer engines describe you accurately. How to fix
  3. 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

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, 7.3 KB, 31 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: Amazonbot (via *) (107 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.fredericknewspost.com/sitemap.xml, https://www.fredericknewspost.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml, https://www.fredericknewspost.com/tncms/sitemap/editorial.xml?year=1997 (+28)

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

1 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (871 B)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 404
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 429 (the site rate-limited our fetch, even after a retry)
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 429 (the site rate-limited our fetch, even after a retry)

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://fredericknewspost.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.fredericknewspost.com/), text/html, 1.2 MB
  • 52,914 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "fredericknewspost.com | Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper"
  • 47 external scripts, 72 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to main content Log In My Account My Account Dashboard Profile Saved Items Subscribe Manage Service Log Out Subscribe Manage Service Ho..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

0/2 · fail

No JSON-LD, Open Graph incomplete

  • 1 JSON-LD block (1 unparsable)
  • Open Graph: og:title "fredericknewspost.com | Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper"; no og:description
  • meta description: absent

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

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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