Top fixes
- Crawler access (+2 points): Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
- 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
2 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 6 disallowed
- GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 2.4 KB, 10 user-agent groups
- Allowed: OAI-SearchBot (via *), Google-Extended (via *)
- Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider
- Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
- Sitemap declared: https://media.snopes.com/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml, https://media.snopes.com/sitemaps/sitemap-latest.xml
Fix: Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.
Machine-readable surfaces
2/2 · pass
1 of 7 surfaces present (/ai.txt); sitemap via 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 200, 37 B of text
- Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://media.snopes.com/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml
Fix: Publish 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://snopes.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.snopes.com/), text/html, 681 KB
- 12,815 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban le"
- 7 external scripts, 43 inline; <noscript> present
- first words: "Snopes Now available in the app store! Open Log in to activate your ad-free access. It looks like you might have a Snopes membership! Log in..."
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Structured data
2/2 · pass
2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete
- 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type WebSite, Organization
- Open Graph: og:title "Snopes.com"; 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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