Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / pewresearch.org

C

pewresearch.org

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

Graded 2026-09-30 09:07 UTC in 1.6s · 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. Structured data (+1 point): add og:title and og:description so answer engines describe you accurately. 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, 1.0 KB, 2 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (2 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (2 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (2 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (2 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (2 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (2 path rules), CCBot (via *) (2 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (2 path rules)
  • Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.pewresearch.org/sitemap.xml, https://www.pewresearch.org/sitemap-taxonomies.xml, https://www.pewresearch.org/sitemap-news.xml (+2)

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

2/2 · pass

2 of 7 surfaces present (/llms.txt, /sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 200, 15 KB of text
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (784 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 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://pewresearch.org/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.pewresearch.org/), text/html, 415 KB
  • 12,807 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy, public opinion polling and data-"
  • 30 external scripts, 21 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World Newsletters Press My Account Donate Contacted By Us? Read our research on: Artificial Intellige..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph incomplete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type WebSite, Organization, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem
  • Open Graph: og:title "Pew Research Center"; 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 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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