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nytimes.com
2/12 · 17% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)
#49 of 64 News & media sites graded · Last graded 2026-09-29 23:51 UTC · 1 grade since 2026-09-29 · full result · JSON · regrade now
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.
- Readable without JavaScript (+2 points): Your edge serves a challenge or error to non-browser fetchers; allowlist the AI crawlers you want (at least for the home page) or serve them a static version.
- 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.
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Latest grade by area
Crawler access
0/2 · fail
1 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 7 disallowed
Machine-readable surfaces
1/2 · warn
None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published (a sitemap is declared in robots.txt)
Readable without JavaScript
0/2 · fail
Home page is not available to a plain fetch (HTTP 403)
Structured data
not measured
Home page returned HTTP 403; structured data not measurable
Legal notices
1/2 · warn
1 of 6 required notices complete (desk score 2/12)
MCP census entry
0/2 · fail
Not selling to agents: no census entry, no /mcp endpoint
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Last 30 grades, newest first. Columns: Crawlers, Surfaces, No-JS, Structured, Legal, MCP are the six area scores (0-2).
| When | Grade | Score | % | Crawlers | Surfaces | No-JS | Structured | Legal | MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 23:51 UTC | F | 2/12 | 17% | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 |
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