Agent-Readiness Grade / Sites / News & media / usnews.com
usnews.com
0/12 · 0% (scaled from 1 measurable areas)
#64 of 64 News & media sites graded · Last graded 2026-09-29 23:56 UTC · 1 grade since 2026-09-29 · full result · JSON · regrade now
Top fixes
- 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
usnews.com is graded F. The $49 AI Visibility Full Report shows what AI assistants say about usnews.com's brand, with fixes for crawler access, llms.txt and schema, and tests 8 real buyer questions across ChatGPT-class models to show what AI answers say about you today.
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Latest grade by area
Crawler access
not measured
Robots.txt could not be fetched (timed out after 7s)
Machine-readable surfaces
not measured
None of the surfaces could be fetched
Readable without JavaScript
not measured
Home page unreachable (timed out after 7s)
Structured data
not measured
Home page unreachable; nothing to inspect
Legal notices
not measured
Unavailable
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 23:56 UTC | F | 0/12 | 0% | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
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