Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / time.com

B

time.com

10/12 · 83% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 05:32 UTC in 0.1s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. 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
  2. MCP census entry (+1 point): Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

Crawler access (robots.txt)

2/2 · pass

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

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 2.3 KB, 3 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *), ClaudeBot (via *), OAI-SearchBot (via *), PerplexityBot (via *), Google-Extended (via *), Amazonbot (via *), CCBot (via *), Bytespider (via *)
  • Sitemap declared: https://time.com/sitemap.xml, https://time.com/news-sitemap.xml, https://time.com/branded-content-sitemap.xml (+6)

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

1 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 406
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (>64 KB)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 406
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 406
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 406
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 406
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 406

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://time.com/ -> HTTP 200, text/html, 1.3 MB
  • 12,387 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates"
  • 23 external scripts, 11 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Skip to Content Menu Close Subscribe The Cover People Ideas Collections Games Health Entertainment AI Climate Skip to Content Menu Close Sub..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type Organization, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem
  • Open Graph: og:title "TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

1/2 · warn

Exposes /mcp but is not in the census

  • 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 406: an endpoint answers
  • Index MCP probe record: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time

Fix: Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you.

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