Top fixes
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
0 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 8 disallowed
- GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 4.8 KB, 40 user-agent groups
- Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider
- Sitemap declared: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemap.xml, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-archive.xml, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-news.xml (+10)
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 (745 B)
- /.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://bbc.co.uk/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.bbc.co.uk/), text/html, 668 KB
- 11,419 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "BBC - Home"
- 55 external scripts, 7 inline; <noscript> present
- first words: "BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Soun..."
Fix: Nothing to fix here.
Structured data
2/2 · pass
1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete
- 1 JSON-LD block: @type CollectionPage, ItemList
- Open Graph: og:title "BBC - Home"; 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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