abcnews.go.com

Report from 7/24/2026, 9:42:55 AM https://abcnews.go.com
Latest run · lab, cold cache
75
7/24/2026
28-day score · p75 · the standard
75
14 runs
CRR90%latest
SSD91%latest
TC1716 toklatest
TTFUT242 ms28-day p75

Scored by v3 · source-of-truth hashes: score db860d6ac94e · thresholds e94f8b33e500 — verifiable against the canonical scorer.

The 28-day score is the p75 of nightly runs — the stable number to cite. Deterministic metrics (CRR/SSD/TC) show their latest value (they move only when the site changes); timing (TTFUT) and answer-fidelity (AF) are smoothed by 28-day p75 — the same lab-vs-field split Core Web Vitals uses. Synthetic daily measurement, not real-user field data.

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What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: MEDIUM
Business nameABC News
CategoryWebSite
🟡Price$100 · guessed from page text (no structured data)
Locationnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Hoursnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
Productsnot applicable · not applicable to this page type
🟡DescriptionYour trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com · guessed from page text (no structured data)

An agent gets the basics but will guess on the gaps. 2/4 applicable facts come from machine-readable structured data.

75
Overall score
weighted CAV (0–100)
WARN
0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

90%
CRR Content Recovery Needs work
0.91
SSD Semantic Signal Density Good
1,716 tok
TC Token Cost Good
215 ms
TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈15,046 across regions). Most tokens are real content — the agent isn't paying much for chrome.

Content
100% · 15,046
Chrome (nav / header / footer)
0% · 0
Boilerplate (cookie / ad)
0% · 0
Other
0% · 0

Final screenshot

Final screenshot of https://abcnews.go.com

Diagnostics

medium CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence10% of content requires JS · 90% of rendered content recovered (rest is placeholder/wrong)
ImpactA non-rendering agent never sees the JS-injected content.
Effort1–4 h

Fix: Server-render or statically generate the main content so a non-JS agent still receives it; make client rendering a progressive enhancement, not the source of truth.

Rendered profile: headless

Agent Discoverability 67/100 · Needs Work

Access & discovery checks — separate from the gated CAV metrics above. Click an issue for business impact, what we measured, and how to fix. · Take the Agent Readiness course →

Agent files & endpoints

llms.txt Absent at /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt Learn →
robots.txt (AI bots) Blocks: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, FacebookBot Learn →
sitemap.xml No /sitemap.xml Learn →
JSON-LD structured data Types: WebSite, WebPage Learn →
~ agents.json Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ WebMCP endpoint Absent (emerging standard) Learn →
~ OpenAPI / API docs No OpenAPI/Swagger found Learn →

Issues (6)

robots.txt allows AI bots high impact Blocks: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, FacebookBot

Business impact If robots.txt blocks AI crawlers you are invisible to ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity — they skip you and recommend a competitor instead.

What we measured We read /robots.txt and test it against 16 AI user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …) for a Disallow that blocks them.

How to fix Allow major AI bots to public content; restrict only private paths (/admin, /api).

Learn how to implement →

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Spec: https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

llms.txt present high impact Absent at /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt

Business impact llms.txt is the robots.txt for AI: it tells agents what your site is, what matters, and where to find it. Without it AI guesses — and guessing means inaccurate recommendations and lost visibility.

What we measured We fetch /llms.txt and /.well-known/llms.txt and validate the spec (H1 title + a one-line blockquote summary). We also note /llms-full.txt (your full content as Markdown).

How to fix Create /llms.txt with a short summary + key pages; optionally /llms-full.txt with full content in Markdown.

Learn how to implement →

# Your Site
> One-line description for AI agents.

## Key pages
- /products — catalog
- /pricing — plans
- /docs — documentation

Spec: https://llmstxt.org

XML sitemap present medium impact No /sitemap.xml

Business impact A sitemap is your table of contents for AI crawlers. Without it agents follow homepage links and miss deep pages (products, docs, pricing) — shrinking what they can recommend.

What we measured We fetch /sitemap.xml (and /sitemap_index.xml), confirm valid XML with <loc> entries, and check <lastmod> freshness.

How to fix Generate an XML sitemap of all public pages with current lastmod dates and reference it in robots.txt.

Learn how to implement →

# robots.txt
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Spec: https://www.sitemaps.org/

~ agents.json discovery low impact Absent (emerging standard)

Business impact agents.json describes what your site can DO for agents (services, endpoints, capabilities) — an emerging discovery standard. Early adopters get native agent integration.

What we measured We check /agents.json and /.well-known/agents.json for a valid configuration.

How to fix Publish /agents.json describing your site's capabilities and actions.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json

~ WebMCP endpoint low impact Absent (emerging standard)

Business impact WebMCP lets agents call actions on your site directly (book, buy, query) instead of scraping the DOM. Early adopters get native AI-agent interoperability.

What we measured We check /.well-known/webmcp and /webmcp.json for a valid actions array.

How to fix Add a WebMCP endpoint exposing your key actions to agents.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://webmcp.org

~ API documentation low impact No OpenAPI/Swagger found

Business impact Programmatic agents prefer a typed API. An OpenAPI/Swagger spec lets them integrate without scraping.

What we measured We probe /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs and /.well-known/openapi.json.

How to fix Publish an OpenAPI spec at a well-known path.

Learn how to implement →

Spec: https://www.openapis.org/

Passed audits (6)

✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ No content-blocking cookie wall✓ Machine-readable prices✓ No login wall on public content✓ Structured data (JSON-LD)✓ Server response (TTFB)

Transport & Trust (SEC 1.0.0)

HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, sniffing, referrer and CORS posture. Diagnostic only — this does not affect the CAV score. A security header does not make a page more legible to an agent, so scoring it would reward a CDN toggle that changes nothing an agent can recover. We measure it and say so.

37Transport posture (0–100, unscored)
1pass
1warn
3fail
Per-header findings (6)
HeaderEvidence
✅ HTTPSserved over HTTPS
❌ HSTSno strict-transport-security header
❌ Content-Security-Policyno content-security-policy header
❌ X-Content-Type-Optionsmissing nosniff
⚠️ Referrer-Policyno referrer-policy header (browser default applies)
➖ CORS exposureno CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page)
Full profile — how to improve · unused JS · network · timing

How to improve

highSplit the heaviest unused bundlehighest leverage

9887-2cec1c95.js — 810 KiB transferred, 39.4% unused

EvidenceCDP JS coverage: 319 KiB of this bundle is never executed on load.
Impact~-319 KiB transfer; lower Token Cost + faster agent parse.
Effort30–90 min
FixDynamic-import() the below-the-fold parts of 9887-2cec1c95.js, or drop unused dependencies.
highCut third-party weight

dssott.com — 7580 KiB, 25 requests

EvidenceThird-party is 85.2% of total transfer (304 requests); dssott.com is the largest.
ImpactFewer bytes + main-thread stalls before your content settles for an agent.
Effort1–3 h
FixLazy-load, self-host, or remove dssott.com; defer non-critical third-party scripts.
highBreak up long main-thread tasks

longest task 1458 ms (10 total)

EvidenceMain thread blocked 1458 ms by the longest task.
ImpactFaster interactivity + content settling.
Effort1–4 h
FixSplit heavy work, defer third-party scripts, move compute off the main thread.
mediumReduce layout shift

cumulative layout shift

EvidenceCLS is 0.11.
ImpactStable layout for render + screenshot.
Effort30–60 min
FixSet explicit width/height on images; reserve space for late-loading content.
mediumCut total transfer weight

14.5 MB total

Evidence14.5 MB transferred.
ImpactCheaper, faster fetch on slow links.
Effort1–3 h
FixEnable Brotli, serve WebP/AVIF images, defer non-critical resources.

Third-party impact

304 third-party requests · 12645 KiB (85.2% of transfer) · 7714 ms main-thread — code an agent must also fetch/run before your content settles. Fewer, lazier third-parties = faster, cheaper agent reads.

Third-party domainReqsTransferMain-thread
dssott.com257580 KiB
abcnewsfe.com851799 KiB
bamgrid.com16668 KiB755 ms
taboola.com29497 KiB2391 ms
doubleclick.net14482 KiB1732 ms
espn.com12343 KiB872 ms
googletagmanager.com3276 KiB111 ms
cookielaw.org11223 KiB
theglobeandmail.com2148 KiB738 ms
webcontentassessor.com3110 KiB93 ms
imrworldwide.com690 KiB139 ms
espncdn.com274 KiB

Wasted JavaScript (by bundle)

Transfer-accurate — each bundle's transfer size × its unused %, ranked by wasted bytes (the biggest code-splitting wins). Unused JS also inflates Token Cost (TC).

BundleTransferUnusedWasted
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https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/abcnews-abcnews/loader.js 3P322 KiB69.6%224 KiB
https://assets-cdn.abcnews.com/abcnews/753be64ddaad-release-07-07-2026.10/client/abcnews/5246-ca7a5e0e.js424 KiB51.6%219 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202607140101/pubads_impl.js 3P195 KiB60.2%118 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202607150101/pubads_impl.js?cb=31099747 3P196 KiB58.7%115 KiB
https://hiveplayer-static.bamgrid.com/artifacts/hive/playback-service/26.7.1-ghost/all_browser_es5/playback-service.js 3P129 KiB83.1%108 KiB
https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202509.1.0/otBannerSdk.js 3P122 KiB62.6%76 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=AW-1010108458&cx=c&gtm=4e67f0h1 3P143 KiB52.4%75 KiB
https://adtech-cdn.theglobeandmail.com/prebid/riker_pbjs_10.15.0.js 3P134 KiB55.5%74 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-4139589 3P134 KiB55.2%74 KiB
https://dcf.espn.com/TWDC-DTCI/prod/code/0c3b1549f11bdc93038fef80eaf4a883.js?conditionId0=4910633 3P120 KiB56.3%67 KiB
https://dcf.espn.com/TWDC-DTCI/prod/Bootstrap.js 3P121 KiB55.1%67 KiB
https://cdn-gl.imrworldwide.com/novms/js/2/nlsSDK600.bundle.min.js 3P74 KiB68.9%51 KiB
https://js.appboycdn.com/web-sdk/5.6/braze.min.js 3P63 KiB76.5%48 KiB

Network

361Requests
14845 KiBTransferred
81Scripts
85.2%3rd-party
10Long tasks
XHR (55)
7696 KiB
Script (81)
4545 KiB
Image (130)
1946 KiB
Font (3)
158 KiB
Stylesheet (7)
158 KiB
Fetch (45)
148 KiB
Other (21)
99 KiB
Document (14)
94 KiB
Ping (4)
2 KiB
Manifest (1)
0 KiB
Heaviest requests (30)
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Long tasks (>50 ms)

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