Is nationalgeographic.org agent ready?

nationalgeographic.org is not yet agent ready: it scores 41/100 (grade D) on the w2agent rubric.

41/ 100
Grade: D

Last checked

Scored Sep 16, 2026 · Rubric v3.0

Changed since last check

+1 points since the previous check (2026-09-15)

Fixed: Response time

Category scores

Category breakdown not recorded for this audit.

Agent protocol panel

  • A2A agent cardNot found
  • OAuth discoveryNot measured
  • MCP discoveryNot found
  • llms.txt validityNot measured

Check results

Bot Accessibility

  • ✓No error status codespass
  • ✓Response timepass
  • ✓XML sitemap existspass
  • ✗AI agent accessfail
  • ✓Edge treatment of agent user-agentstracked, not scoredpass
  • ✓robots.txt existspass
  • ✗Content negotiation (Markdown)fail
  • —Declared AI usage preferencestracked, not scoredskip

Structured Data

  • ✓OpenGraph meta tagspass
  • ✓Semantic HTML elementspass
  • ✓Appropriate Schema.org typepass
  • ✓JSON-LD validpass
  • ✗Heading hierarchyfail
  • ✓Schema.org JSON-LD presentpass
  • ~Schema.org completenesspartial

Content Quality

  • ✓FAQ contentpass
  • ✗Answer-first contentfail
  • ✓Content lengthpass
  • ✓Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)pass
  • ✗Freshness signalsfail
  • ✗Author attributionfail
  • ✓Citation readinesspass
  • ✓Lists and tables for structured infopass

Agent Discovery

  • —llms.txt follows specskip
  • ✗llms.txt existsfail
  • —MCP server cardtracked, not scoredskip
  • ✗Markdown alternate linksfail
  • ✗/.well-known/agent-card.jsonfail
  • —llms.txt links resolveskip

Agent Protocols

  • ✗Discoverable API endpointsfail
  • ✗MCP endpointfail
  • ✗Action schemasfail
  • —/.well-known/ucpskip
  • —Structured formsskip
  • —WebMCP imperative APItracked, not scoredskip
  • —WebMCP declarative APItracked, not scoredskip
  • ✓Reachable as Google-Agentpass
  • ✓Reachable as ChatGPT-Userpass
  • ✓Reachable as Perplexity-Userpass

Agent Auth

  • —MCP authorization (401 challenge → protected resource metadata)skip
  • —PKCE S256 supportskip
  • ✗Public API surfacefail
  • —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
  • —OpenAPI specificationskip
  • —Agent/bot auth documentationskip
  • —OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)skip
  • —Developer portalskip
  • —Scoped API permissionsskip
  • —API catalog (RFC 9727)skip
  • —Agent operator signing directorytracked, not scoredskip

Technical

  • ✓HTTPSpass
  • ✓UTF-8 charsetpass
  • ✓Canonical URLspass
  • ✓Mobile viewportpass
  • ✓Content accessible without JSpass
  • ✗Security headersfail

Other

  • ✓nextjs-metadata-apipass
  • ~nextjs-static-generationpartial
  • ✗nextjs-well-known-servedfail
  • —local-business-hours-jsonldskip
  • —local-business-nap-structuredskip
  • —local-business-booking-accessibleskip

Score history

  • 41/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 40/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 51/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 51/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 52/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 52/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 51/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 52/100 · rubric v2.0

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