Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / nationalgeographic.com

C

nationalgeographic.com

8/12 · 67% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 13:14 UTC in 0.8s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. 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
  2. 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)

2/2 · pass

8 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 0 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 1.4 KB, 1 user-agent group
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (38 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (38 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (38 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (38 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (38 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (38 path rules), CCBot (via *) (38 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (38 path rules)
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml, https://nationalgeographic.com/tv/sitemapindex-episodes.xml, https://nationalgeographic.com/tv/sitemapindex-showmap.xml (+2)

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 (155 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://nationalgeographic.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/), text/html, 552 KB
  • 9,886 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "National Geographic"
  • 23 external scripts, 4 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Latest Stories Going Off the Grid to Deal With Climate Disasters Environment Going Off the Grid to Deal With Climate Disasters How a Nat Geo..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type WebPage, WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, ItemList
  • Open Graph: og:title "National Geographic"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

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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