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Agent Readiness Leaderboard

October 2026 Edition · 324 websites ranked by agent readiness

A monthly benchmark — any crawled site gets scored. Not a curated list of usable agents.

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54/100
Average Score
75%
llms.txt Adoption
1%
Agent Card Adoption
22%
MCP Server Adoption

Key Findings

  • The average AI readiness grade is C (54/100)
  • Only 75% of top websites serve an llms.txt file
  • Technical scores 89/100 on average, but Agent Auth lags at just 30
  • surrealdb.com leads the rankings with 88/100
  • Communication & Support leads by industry with an average score of 67/100
  • 2% of sites scored an F — failing AI readiness

Grade Distribution

A: 4
B: 101
C: 151
D: 60
F: 8

Category Averages

Technical
89
Agent Auth
30
Agent Discovery
35
Agent Protocols
43
Content Quality
68
Structured Data
54
Bot Accessibility
77
All (324)E-Commerce (2)SaaS (79)Media & Content (5)AI & Tech (15)Government (6)Documentation (11)Social (4)Finance (7)Other (31)Agent Tools (21)AI & ML (8)Communication & Support (7)CRM (3)Data & Analytics (10)Developer Tools (51)E-Commerce (16)Identity & Auth (5)Infrastructure & DevOps (22)Payments & Fintech (5)Productivity (6)Sales & Marketing (4)Local Business (2)Blog (4)
#SiteGradeScore
153substack.com→C57
268wired.com→D43
294nytimes.com→D38
301theverge.com→D37
321cnn.com→F25

Couldn't measure (35)

Sites with no current score. Each one names why. Excluded from rankings; listed here for transparency.

  • adidas.comCouldn't tell
  • bloomberg.comCouldn't tell
  • coinbase.comAnti-bot block
  • costco.comTimeout
  • doordash.comCouldn't tell
  • ebay.comCouldn't tell
  • emarsys.netCouldn't tell
  • etsy.comAnti-bot block
  • expedia.comRate-limited
  • heroku.comUnreachable
  • homedepot.comCouldn't tell
  • imunify360.comAnti-bot block
  • macys.comCouldn't tell
  • mayoclinic.orgCouldn't tell
  • medium.comTimeout
  • meta.aiCouldn't tell
  • midjourney.comAnti-bot block
  • mobalytics.ggAnti-bot block
  • nasa.govUnreachable
  • nih.govAnti-bot block
  • openai.comAnti-bot block
  • opentable.comTimeout
  • perplexity.aiAnti-bot block
  • reddit.comCouldn't tell
  • reuters.comTimeout
  • stackoverflow.comAnti-bot block
  • state.govUnreachable
  • techcrunch.comUnreachable
  • tripadvisor.comAnti-bot block
  • undertone.comCouldn't tell
  • vidazoo.comCouldn't tell
  • washingtonpost.comTimeout
  • wayfair.comRate-limited
  • whitehouse.govUnreachable
  • yelp.comAnti-bot block

Scores generated by w2agent — Agent Readiness for the Web

Scored Sep 16, 2026 · Rubric