Top fixes
- 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
- Readable without JavaScript (+1 point): Move the essentials (what you do, prices, contact, key pages) into server-rendered HTML instead of loading them with JavaScript. 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, 5.0 KB, 106 user-agent groups
- Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (21 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (21 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (21 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (21 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (21 path rules)
- Disallowed: ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider
- Sitemap declared: https://seekingalpha.com/sitemap_news.xml, https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/index.xml, https://seekingalpha.com/news/index.xml (+6)
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 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
- /.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://seekingalpha.com/sitemap_news.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://seekingalpha.com/ -> HTTP 200, text/html, 597 KB
- 13,259 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors"
- 1 external script, 14 inline; <noscript> absent
- empty root container found (<div
class="appLoading appLoaderInvisible"
id="app-loader"
>): the page is assembled by JavaScript
- first words: "Skip to content Home page Seeking Alpha - Power to Investors Create Free Account About Premium Explore Alpha Picks Explore QG&I NEW Home Sto..."
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
5 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete
- 5 JSON-LD blocks: @type Organization, WebSite, WebPage, SoftwareApplication
- Open Graph: og:title "Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors"; 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)
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 401 (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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