# AI readiness of theguardian.com > Measured on the home page. Overall grade: Poor. Score 43/100, grade Poor. Measured 2026-09-04T15:06:12.441+00:00, engine ax-audit@3.6.0. ## Checks ### LLMs.txt — 0/100 - **FAIL** /llms.txt not found HTTP 404 Create a /llms.txt file at your site root following the llmstxt.org specification. It should be a Markdown file starting with "# Your Site Name" and include a description, sections, and links. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/llms-txt#not-found ### Robots.txt — 34/100 - **PASS** /robots.txt exists - **WARN** 4/8 core AI crawlers configured Missing: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot Add explicit User-agent entries for the missing crawlers with Allow: / for each one. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/robots-txt#missing-crawlers - **WARN** 17 AI crawler(s) explicitly blocked CCBot, PetalBot, FacebookBot, Bytespider, YouBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, AwarioRssBot, AwarioSmartBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot, Google-CloudVertexBot These crawlers have "Disallow: /" rules. If you want AI agents to access your site, change to "Allow: /" for each blocked crawler. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/robots-txt#explicitly-blocked - **PASS** Sitemap directive present - **WARN** No Content-Signal directive found (optional) Declare how crawlers may use your content after access with the Content Signals Policy, e.g.: Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no. Known signals: search, ai-input, ai-train. Generate yours at contentsignals.org. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/robots-txt#missing-content-signals - **PASS** 17/48 known AI crawlers have explicit rules ### Agent Card (A2A) — 0/100 - **FAIL** /.well-known/agent.json not found HTTP 404 Create a /.well-known/agent.json file following the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol. It should include name, description, url, and skills fields describing your site's capabilities. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/agent-json#not-found ### Security.txt — 100/100 - **PASS** /.well-known/security.txt exists - **PASS** Required field "Contact" present - **PASS** Required field "Expires" present - **PASS** Expires date is in the future (2027-05-31) - **PASS** 2/5 optional fields present ### Meta Tags — 37/100 - **WARN** No AI meta tags (ai:*) found Add AI meta tags to your HTML : , , . https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#no-ai-meta - **WARN** No rel="alternate" link to llms.txt in HTML Add to your : https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#no-llms-alternate - **WARN** No rel="alternate" link to agent.json in HTML Add to your : https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#no-agent-alternate - **WARN** No rel="me" identity links found Add rel="me" links to verify your identity across platforms: , . https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#no-rel-me - **WARN** No OpenGraph meta tags found Add at minimum og:title, og:description, og:url, og:type, and og:image. Agents and link previews depend on these. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#no-opengraph - **WARN** Twitter Card required tags missing: twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description Add these meta tags: , , . https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/meta-tags#twitter-required-missing ### OpenAPI Spec — 0/100 - **FAIL** /.well-known/openapi.json not found HTTP 404 Create a /.well-known/openapi.json file with your API specification following the OpenAPI 3.x standard. See https://swagger.io/specification/ for the spec. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/openapi#not-found ### MCP (Model Context Protocol) — 0/100 - **FAIL** /.well-known/mcp.json not found HTTP 404 Create a /.well-known/mcp.json file describing your MCP server configuration. Include name, description, tools, and version fields. See https://modelcontextprotocol.io for the spec. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/mcp#not-found ### Sitemap — 100/100 - **PASS** Sitemap located: http://www.theguardian.com/sitemaps/news.xml - **PASS** Content-Type is XML (text/xml) - **PASS** 523 URL(s) declared - **PASS** 100% of URLs have - **PASS** Newest is recent (0 day(s) ago) ### TLS / HTTPS — 100/100 - **PASS** Site is served over HTTPS - **PASS** HTTP requests redirect to HTTPS - **PASS** HSTS max-age=63072000 - **PASS** HSTS includes subdomains - **PASS** HSTS preload-eligible ### AI Well-Known — 0/100 - **WARN** 0/5 emerging AI discovery files published - **WARN** ai.txt not found Tried: /.well-known/ai.txt Publish /.well-known/ai.txt declaring opt-in/opt-out signals for AI training. See https://site.spawning.ai/spawning-ai-txt for the format. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/well-known-ai#ai-txt - **WARN** genai.txt not found Tried: /.well-known/genai.txt Publish /.well-known/genai.txt declaring your generative-AI usage policy. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/well-known-ai#genai-txt - **WARN** ai-plugin.json not found Tried: /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, /ai-plugin.json Publish /ai-plugin.json (legacy ChatGPT plugin manifest). Schema: name_for_model, description_for_model, api.url. Still consumed by some agents. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/well-known-ai#ai-plugin - **WARN** agents.json not found Tried: /agents.json, /.well-known/agents.json Publish /agents.json describing your site as a callable agent (OpenAgents / Wildcard emerging spec). Includes name, description, and operations[]. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/well-known-ai#agents-json - **WARN** nlweb.json not found Tried: /.well-known/nlweb.json, /nlweb.json Publish /.well-known/nlweb.json (Microsoft NLWeb) so agents can interact with the site through a natural-language interface. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/well-known-ai#nlweb ### Content Negotiation — 0/100 (reports, does not score) - **FAIL** Homepage does not serve Markdown via content negotiation Got text/html (HTTP 200) for "Accept: text/markdown" Serve a Markdown representation of your pages when agents request "Accept: text/markdown". Agents like Claude Code and Cursor ask for it, and Markdown cuts token usage by ~80% vs HTML. Cloudflare ("Markdown for Agents") and Vercel can enable this without code changes. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/content-negotiation#not-supported - **WARN** No fallback found on the homepage If you cannot enable content negotiation, advertise a Markdown version with so agents can discover it. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/content-negotiation#no-alternate ### RSL License — 95/100 (reports, does not score) - **PASS** RSL license discovered via robots.txt License directive (1 reference(s)) - **WARN** RSL license document Content-Type is "application/xml" Expected one of: application/rsl+xml Configure your server to serve RSL license document as application/rsl+xml so AI agents parse it correctly. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/rsl#wrong-content-type - **PASS** Root element with correct namespace - **PASS** 1 element(s), all with url attribute - **PASS** License terms declared — permits[usage]: ai-train ai-input; prohibits[usage]: all ### Agent Access — 100/100 (reports, does not score) - **PASS** ClaudeBot blocked at the server — consistent with its robots.txt Disallow HTTP 403 for User-Agent containing "ClaudeBot" - **PASS** Claude-SearchBot blocked at the server — consistent with its robots.txt Disallow HTTP 403 for User-Agent containing "Claude-SearchBot" - **PASS** PerplexityBot blocked at the server — consistent with its robots.txt Disallow HTTP 403 for User-Agent containing "PerplexityBot" - **PASS** CCBot blocked at the server — consistent with its robots.txt Disallow HTTP 403 for User-Agent containing "CCBot" ### Structured Data — 0/100 - **FAIL** No JSON-LD structured data found Add a