Is theguardian.com agent ready?
theguardian.com is not yet agent ready: it scores 41/100 (grade D) on the w2agent rubric.
Changed since last check
+2 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 existsfail
- ✗AI agent accessfail
- ✗Edge treatment of agent user-agentstracked, not scoredfail
- ✓robots.txt existspass
- ✗Content negotiation (Markdown)fail
- ✓Declared AI usage preferencestracked, not scoredpass
Structured Data
- ~OpenGraph meta tagspartial
- ✓Semantic HTML elementspass
- ✗Appropriate Schema.org typefail
- ✗JSON-LD validfail
- ~Heading hierarchypartial
- ~Schema.org JSON-LD presentpartial
- ✗Schema.org completenessfail
Content Quality
- ✓FAQ contentpass
- ✓Answer-first contentpass
- ✓Content lengthpass
- ✓Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)pass
- ✓Freshness signalspass
- ✗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 endpointspass
- ✗MCP endpointfail
- ✗Action schemasfail
- —/.well-known/ucpskip
- ✓Structured formspass
- —WebMCP imperative APItracked, not scoredskip
- —WebMCP declarative APItracked, not scoredskip
- ✓Reachable as Google-Agentpass
- ✓Reachable as ChatGPT-Userpass
- ✗Reachable as Perplexity-Userfail
Agent Auth
- —MCP authorization (401 challenge → protected resource metadata)skip
- ✗PKCE S256 supportfail
- ✗Public API surfacefail
- —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
- —OpenAPI specificationskip
- ✗Agent/bot auth documentationfail
- —OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)skip
- ✓Developer portalpass
- ✗Scoped API permissionsfail
- —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 headerspass
Other
- ✗nextjs-metadata-apifail
- ~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
- 39/100 · rubric v3.0
- 40/100 · rubric v2.0
- 40/100 · rubric v2.0
- 40/100 · rubric v2.0
- 39/100 · rubric v2.0
- 33/100 · rubric v2.0
- 33/100 · rubric v2.0
- 33/100 · rubric v2.0
- 33/100 · rubric v2.0
- 32/100 · rubric v2.0
- 32/100 · rubric v2.0
- 37/100 · rubric v2.0
- 10/100 · rubric v2.0