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nytimes.com

The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos

mediaScanned 3/25/2026

Category Scores

Accessibility63
2/3 checks passed
Content Structure64
2/4 checks passed
AI-Specific Readiness57
3/5 checks passed
Performance60
1/2 checks passed
Metadata76
1/3 checks passed

All 17 Checks

fail
Robots.txt AI Access0/100

robots.txt blocks 8 AI crawlers: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web, CCBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, Bytespider

pass
No Blocking Meta Tags100/100

Page is open to indexing by AI agents

pass
Site Loads Without JS100/100

Server-rendered HTML contains ~1728 words of text content

pass
Semantic HTML100/100

Headings: 1 H1, 15 H2, 6 H3. Semantic elements: main, nav, article, section, header, footer

pass
Schema.org Structured Data100/100

Found structured data: JSON-LD, RDFa

warn
Text-to-HTML Ratio40/100

Text-to-HTML ratio: 1% (12KB text / 1169KB total)

fail
FAQ Schema0/100

No FAQ schema or FAQ content detected

fail
llms.txt File0/100

No llms.txt file found at site root

pass
Clean Text Extraction100/100

~1376 extractable words, <main> element found

pass
Entity Clarity75/100

Entity signals found: page title, meta description, Schema.org data

warn
MCP Server Compatibility30/100

No MCP server manifest found (optional — for sites that expose tools to AI agents)

pass
Author & Citation Signals75/100

E-E-A-T signals found: byline, expertise signals

pass
FCP Under 3 Seconds100/100

Page loaded in 300ms

fail
No Render-Blocking Resources20/100

1 blocking script, 8 stylesheets in <head>

pass
Open Graph Tags100/100

OG tags — Title: yes, Description: yes, Image: yes, Type: yes

warn
Quality Meta Description60/100

Meta description: 267 chars (too long)

warn
Content Freshness Signals60/100

Freshness signals: <time> elements, Last-Modified header

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