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AI readiness of vercel.com

Measured on the home page. Overall grade: Fair.

vercel.com

Fair · 45 passing checks, 16 warnings, 6 failures · 9s

ax-audit@3.6.0

Agent Card (A2A)

  • /.well-known/agent.json not found

    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.

OpenAPI Spec

  • /.well-known/openapi.json not found

    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.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

  • /.well-known/mcp.json not found

    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.

AI Well-Known

  • 0/5 emerging AI discovery files published

  • ai.txt not found

    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.

  • genai.txt not found

    Publish /.well-known/genai.txt declaring your generative-AI usage policy.

  • ai-plugin.json present at /ai-plugin.json but does not look valid

    Publish /ai-plugin.json (legacy ChatGPT plugin manifest). Schema: name_for_model, description_for_model, api.url. Still consumed by some agents.

  • agents.json present at /agents.json but does not look valid

    Publish /agents.json describing your site as a callable agent (OpenAgents / Wildcard emerging spec). Includes name, description, and operations[].

  • nlweb.json present at /nlweb.json but does not look valid

    Publish /.well-known/nlweb.json (Microsoft NLWeb) so agents can interact with the site through a natural-language interface.

RSL LicenseInformational

  • No RSL license discovery found

    Declare machine-readable licensing terms for your content with Really Simple Licensing. Add to robots.txt: License: https://your-site.com/license.xml — then publish the RSL document. See https://rslstandard.org.

Structured Data

  • No JSON-LD structured data found

    Add a <script type="application/ld+json"> block in your HTML <head> with schema.org structured data describing your site, organization, or person.

Meta Tags

  • No AI meta tags (ai:*) found

    Add AI meta tags to your HTML <head>: <meta name="ai:summary" content="Brief description">, <meta name="ai:content_type" content="website">, <meta name="ai:author" content="Your Name">.

  • No rel="alternate" link to llms.txt in HTML

    Add to your <head>: <link rel="alternate" type="text/plain" href="/llms.txt" title="LLM-optimized content">

  • No rel="alternate" link to agent.json in HTML

    Add to your <head>: <link rel="alternate" type="application/json" href="/.well-known/agent.json" title="Agent Card">

  • No rel="me" identity links found

    Add rel="me" links to verify your identity across platforms: <link rel="me" href="https://github.com/yourname">, <link rel="me" href="https://twitter.com/yourname">.

  • OpenGraph required tags present (og:title, og:description, og:url, og:type)

  • Twitter Card required tags present (twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description)

Robots.txt

  • /robots.txt exists

  • No core AI crawlers explicitly configured

    Add User-agent entries for core AI crawlers in your robots.txt. For each crawler, add: User-agent: <name> followed by Allow: / on the next line.

  • Sitemap directive present

  • Content signals declared for User-agent: * — search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no

  • 0/48 known AI crawlers have explicit rules

    Add explicit User-agent entries for more AI crawlers to maximize discoverability.

HTTP Headers

  • 6/7 security headers present

  • Link header present but does not reference AI discovery files

    Add AI discovery entries to your Link header: Link: </llms.txt>; rel="alternate"; type="text/plain", </.well-known/agent.json>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json"

HTML Rendering

  • Server-rendered content detected (547 words, 3694 chars of visible text)

  • Low text-to-markup ratio (0.7%)

    A very low text-to-markup ratio is a typical SPA-shell symptom. Inline more content directly into the HTML response.

  • Semantic landmarks present (main, section, header, footer, nav)

  • Single <h1> heading: "Agentic Infrastructure"

  • Heavy JavaScript with no <noscript> fallback

    Provide a <noscript> fallback that explains the site or links to a non-JS variant. This helps agents that disable JS.

  • 17/17 <img> tags have alt attributes

SEO Basics

  • <title> length 31 chars: "Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel"

  • Meta description is short (45 chars)

    Expand the description to 70-160 characters with the page's main value proposition.

  • Canonical URL: https://vercel.com

  • <html lang="en">

  • UTF-8 charset declared

  • Viewport meta present: "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1"

Crawl EfficiencyInformational

  • Response compressed with Brotli (br)

  • Cache validator present (ETag)

  • Conditional request returns 304 Not Modified

  • Homepage is on the large side (510.8 KB decompressed)

    Consider trimming inlined payloads to reduce crawl cost.

LLMs.txt

  • /llms.txt exists

  • /llms.txt Content-Type OK (text/plain)

  • H1 heading: "Vercel"

  • Blockquote description present

  • 8 section heading(s) found

  • 18 link(s) found

  • /llms-full.txt also available (bonus)

Security.txt

  • /.well-known/security.txt exists

  • Required field "Contact" present

  • Required field "Expires" present

  • Expires date is in the future (2027-05-27)

  • 4/5 optional fields present

Sitemap

  • Sitemap located: https://vercel.com/sitemap.xml

  • Content-Type is XML (application/xml)

  • 6403 URL(s) declared

  • 100% of URLs have <lastmod>

  • Newest <lastmod> is recent (2 day(s) ago)

TLS / HTTPS

  • Site is served over HTTPS

  • HTTP requests redirect to HTTPS

  • HSTS max-age=31536000

  • HSTS includes subdomains

  • HSTS preload-eligible

Content NegotiationInformational

  • Homepage serves Markdown via content negotiation (Accept: text/markdown)

  • Response body is Markdown, not an HTML document

  • Vary: Accept present (caches keep HTML and Markdown apart)

  • Markdown is ~99% lighter than the HTML representation (3025 vs 522952 bytes)

Agent AccessInformational

  • All 8 core AI crawler user-agents receive equivalent responses