Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / alibaba.com

D

alibaba.com

5/12 · 42% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 18:02 UTC in 4.4s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Machine-readable surfaces (+2 points): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix
  2. 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
  3. Crawler access (+1 point): Add a group for GPTBot, Google-Extended with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite 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)

1/2 · warn

6 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 2 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 5.3 KB, 6 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: ClaudeBot (via *) (43 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (43 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (43 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (43 path rules), CCBot (via *) (43 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (43 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, Google-Extended

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot, Google-Extended with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.

Machine-readable surfaces

0/2 · fail

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; 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://alibaba.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.alibaba.com/), text/html, 218 KB
  • 126,618 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Alibaba.com: Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Importers from the world's la"
  • 6 external scripts, 34 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "AI Mode Meet Your AI Sourcing Agent Your all-in-one sourcing agent. Research smarter, design faster, source better, and communicate easier. ..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph incomplete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type WebSite
  • Open Graph: og:title "Find quality Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters, Importers, Buyers, W"; no og:description
  • meta description: present

Fix: 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 200 HTML page (catch-all route, not an MCP endpoint)

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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