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.
- 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.
- Legal notices (+1 point): Publish the missing notices with a working request mechanism. Start with TAKE IT DOWN Act notice: Publish a plain-language notice and a request mechanism usable without an account; act within 48 hours.
Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.
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Crawler access (robots.txt)
2/2 · pass
8 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 0 disallowed
- GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 23 KB, 10 user-agent groups
- Allowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot (via *) (425 path rules), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider
- Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes
- Sitemap declared: https://www.psu.edu/sitemap.xml
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Machine-readable surfaces
1/2 · warn
1 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml)
- /llms.txt: HTTP 404
- /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, XML sitemap (60 KB)
- /.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
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://psu.edu/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.psu.edu/), text/html, 283 KB
- 5,433 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State"
- 21 external scripts, 23 inline; <noscript> absent
- first words: "Skip to main content Give Apply Report A Concern Academics Undergraduate Studies Majors Honors Programs Online Learning Graduate and Profess..."
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Structured data
2/2 · pass
1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete
- 1 JSON-LD block: @type CollegeOrUniversity, WebPage, ItemList, ListItem
- Open Graph: og:title "The Pennsylvania State University | Penn State"; og:description present
- meta description: present
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Legal notices (TAKE IT DOWN desk check)
1/2 · warn
1 of 6 required notices complete (desk score 2/12)
- Desk score 2/12 across 6 checks (2 of 12 pages read)
- Missing or partial: TAKE IT DOWN Act notice (0/2); DMCA / copyright notice (0/2); DSA notice-and-action (EU users) (0/2); Accessibility statement and feedback (0/2); Marketing opt-out (0/2)
- Complete: Privacy request method
Fix: Publish the missing notices with a working request mechanism. Start with TAKE IT DOWN Act notice: Publish a plain-language notice and a request mechanism usable without an account; act within 48 hours.
MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)
0/2 · fail
Not selling to agents: no census entry, no /mcp endpoint
- Not in the census of 2,031 hosts selling to agents (2026-09-29)
- 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.
