{
  "id": 17309901,
  "title": "We ran our own site through our free AI-readiness checker: 9 passes, 3 warnings, one missing sitemap",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/we-ran-our-own-site-through-our-free-ai-readiness-checker-9-passes-3",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-31T00:17:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/clearrankstudio/we-ran-our-own-site-through-our-free-ai-readiness-checker-9-passes-3-warnings-one-missing-sitemap-4g8p"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "We ran our own site through our free AI-readiness checker and received 9 passes, 3 warnings, and one missing sitemap. The checker is a free tool available at https://agent-ready-check.t6y11a.workers.dev/. After running the check, we made the necessary changes and fixed the 3 warnings. The final results showed a canonical link, JSON-LD structure, a sitemap with truthful lastmod dates, and a robots.txt file with permissive directives. We also deliberately did not include machine-readable dates as the pages are tools, not articles. The checker did briefly report a false negative for the JSON-LD, which was later fixed. This tool is important because a free tool that gives false warnings is worse than no tool at all. The AI-readiness checklist only measures machine-checkable structure signals, which determine if a crawler can read a page cleanly. The full check can be run on any site using the free checker at https://agent-ready-check.t6y11a.workers.dev/. The Clear Rank Studio, the makers of the checker, also offer two related workbooks for sale.",
  "summary": "The honest test of a tool is running it on yourself. We maintain a free agent-readiness checker ( https://agent-ready-check.t6y11a.workers.dev/ ) that looks at the HTML your server sends and reports the structure signals a simple AI crawler can see. This week we pointed it at PlainData ( https://plaindata-preview.t6y11a.workers.dev ), our own free calculators site, and fixed what it caught. Here…",
  "key_points": [
    "Site passed 9 AI-readiness checks out of 13",
    "3 warnings identified and fixed by user",
    "Sitemap missing, later added to results"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Prioritizing machine-readable structural signals over content quality ensures that AI crawlers can navigate and interpret site data without the friction caused by missing sitemaps or restrictive directives.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}