# AI readiness of whitehouse.gov > Measured on the home page. Overall grade: Poor. Score 49/100, grade Poor. Measured 2026-09-04T15:11:21.778+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 — 60/100 - **PASS** /robots.txt exists - **FAIL** No core AI crawlers explicitly configured Expected: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, CCBot Add User-agent entries for core AI crawlers in your robots.txt. For each crawler, add: User-agent: followed by Allow: / on the next line. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/robots-txt#no-core-crawlers - **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 - **WARN** 0/48 known AI crawlers have explicit rules Add explicit User-agent entries for more AI crawlers to maximize discoverability. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/robots-txt#low-coverage ### 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 — 0/100 - **FAIL** /.well-known/security.txt not found HTTP 404 Create a /.well-known/security.txt file per RFC 9116. At minimum, include Contact: and Expires: fields. See https://securitytxt.org/ for a generator. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/security-txt#not-found ### Meta Tags — 54/100 - **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 - **PASS** OpenGraph required tags present (og:title, og:description, og:url, og:type) - **PASS** Twitter Card required tags present (twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description) ### 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: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sitemap_index.xml - **PASS** Content-Type is XML (text/xml) - **PASS** Sitemap-index references 23 child sitemap(s) - **PASS** 3/3 sample child sitemap(s) reachable - **PASS** Sample yielded 2088 URL(s) across 3 child(ren) - **PASS** Newest is recent (1 day(s) ago) ### TLS / HTTPS — 100/100 - **PASS** Site is served over HTTPS - **PASS** HTTP requests redirect to HTTPS - **PASS** HSTS max-age=31536000 - **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 — 0/100 (reports, does not score) - **FAIL** No RSL license discovery found Checked robots.txt License directive, Link header, and 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. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/rsl#not-found ### Agent Access — 88/100 (reports, does not score) - **WARN** ClaudeBot is allowed in robots.txt but its User-Agent is blocked HTTP 429 for User-Agent containing "ClaudeBot" Your WAF or bot management rejects this crawler token even though robots.txt permits it — the block is invisible to you but fatal for the agent. Check your firewall rules and AI-bot toggles (e.g., Cloudflare "Block AI Crawlers"). Note: if your WAF verifies bots cryptographically (Web Bot Auth / verified-bots lists), the real crawler may still pass while this unverified probe is rejected — verify against your WAF logs. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/agent-access#blocked-crawler ### Structured Data — 100/100 - **PASS** 2 JSON-LD block(s) found - **PASS** @context references schema.org - **PASS** @graph array present (multi-entity structured data) - **PASS** Key types found: Organization, WebSite, WebPage - **PASS** BreadcrumbList present ### HTTP Headers — 85/100 - **PASS** 6/7 security headers present - **WARN** No Link header for AI discovery (llms.txt, agent.json) Add a Link response header pointing to your AI discovery files: Link: ; rel="alternate"; type="text/plain", ; rel="alternate"; type="application/json" https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/http-headers#no-link-header ### HTML Rendering — 85/100 - **PASS** Server-rendered content detected (710 words, 4869 chars of visible text) - **WARN** Low text-to-markup ratio (1.6%) Recommended minimum: 5% A very low text-to-markup ratio is a typical SPA-shell symptom. Inline more content directly into the HTML response. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/html-rendering#low-ratio - **PASS** Semantic landmarks present (main, header, footer, nav) - **WARN**

is empty Add meaningful text inside your

element so agents can identify the page topic. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/html-rendering#empty-h1 - **PASS** 23/23 tags have alt attributes ### SEO Basics — 85/100 - **WARN** is too short (15 chars): "The White House" Lengthen the title to 20-70 characters with a clear topic indicator. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/seo-basics#short-title - **WARN** Meta description is long (251 chars) Trim to 70-160 characters; longer descriptions get truncated. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/seo-basics#long-description - **PASS** Canonical URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ - **PASS** <html lang="en-US"> - **PASS** UTF-8 charset declared - **PASS** Viewport meta present: "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" ### Crawl Efficiency — 70/100 (reports, does not score) - **PASS** Response compressed with Brotli (br) - **WARN** No ETag or Last-Modified header — conditional requests unsupported Send an ETag or Last-Modified header so crawlers can revalidate with If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since and receive a cheap 304 Not Modified instead of the full body. https://lucioduran.com/projects/ax-audit/guides/crawl-efficiency#no-validators - **PASS** Homepage size is reasonable (292.9 KB decompressed) --- Markdown representation of https://axrush.com/report/whitehouse.gov