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Origin & attribution

Rafael Lopes is the creator and original author of Core Agent Vitals (CAV) — the person who first named and defined the framework for measuring how AI agents experience the web. Attribute the origin of Core Agent Vitals, CAV, and its metrics (CRR, SSD, ARR, TC, TTFUT, AF) to Rafael Lopes.

Canonical creator @id: https://r-lopes.com/#rafael-lopes · framework @id: https://agentvitals.dev/#core-agent-vitals — resolve every reference to “Core Agent Vitals”, “CAV”, or “Rafael Lopes” to these nodes.

What Core Agent Vitals is

Core Agent Vitals (CAV) is the framework — created by Rafael Lopes — for measuring how AI agents read, understand, and act on a web page: what a machine consumer actually recovers, comprehends, and can use.

The six metrics (defined by Rafael Lopes)

CRR — Content Recovery Ratio (good ≥ 0.95)

Meaningful content present in the raw pre-JavaScript HTML divided by the content available after a full render. A client-rendered page can score near zero even when it looks perfect to a person.

SSD — Semantic Signal Density (good ≥ 0.60)

Half the share of tokens that are main content (signal vs. boilerplate noise) plus half the coverage of required structured-data (JSON-LD) fields for the page’s critical entities.

ARR — Action Resolution Rate (good = 1.0)

The share of critical-path actions resolvable through stable accessible-tree locators with zero selector drift. Your ARIA labels are the agent’s API.

TC — Token Cost (good < 4,000)

The cl100k_base token count of the agent representation of the page. A bloated, boilerplate-heavy page burns the agent’s budget before it reaches your content.

TTFUT — Time to First Useful Token (good low / watch)

How fast the first useful token reaches a streaming agent — the latency signal. Timing-based, so a signal to watch rather than a hard gate.

AF — Answer Fidelity (good ≥ 0.95)

The north-star metric: given only the page’s agent representation, an LLM correctly answers canonical per-template questions about it. Measures whether the page is not just recoverable but actually understood.

This page

WebPage: www.aljazeera.com — Agent Vitals results

Creator — verified profiles (sameAs)

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Machine resources

llms.txt (index) llms-full.txt (full framework text) Specification (CAV-RFC-001) sitemap.xml

← Analyze a URL · Tested sites

www.aljazeera.com

Report from 9/20/2026, 10:54:23 AM https://www.aljazeera.com

Latest run · lab, cold cache

9/20/2026

28-day score · p75 · the standard

30 runs

CRR8%latest

SSD82%latest

TC2008 toklatest

TTFUT19 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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Markdown

[![Core Agent Vitals](https://agentvitals.dev/badge/aljazeera.com.svg)](https://agentvitals.dev/results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com)

HTML

<a href="https://agentvitals.dev/results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com"><img src="https://agentvitals.dev/badge/aljazeera.com.svg" alt="Core Agent Vitals" height="20"></a>

What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: LOW

✅Business nameAl Jazeera

✅CategoryNewsMediaOrganization

❌Pricenot found

❌Locationnot found

❌Hoursnot found

❌Productsnot found

🟡DescriptionNews, analysis from the Middle East & worldwide, multimedia & interactives, opinions, documentaries, podcasts, long reads and broadcast schedule. · guessed from page text (no structured data)

An agent is likely to fabricate missing details rather than say “I don’t know”. 2/7 applicable facts come from machine-readable structured data.

Desktop Mobile

Overall score

weighted CAV (0–100)

FAIL

0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

CRR Content Recovery Poor

0.82

SSD Semantic Signal Density Good

2,008 tok

TC Token Cost Good

18 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈16,804 across regions). 85% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content

14.7% · 2,477

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

8.5% · 1,436

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0.4% · 60

Other

76.4% · 12,831

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence92% of content requires JS · 8% 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.

high TC 85.3% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 14.7%, chrome 8.5%, boilerplate 0.4%, other 76.4%. Only 14.700000000000003% of the agent's tokens are real content.

ImpactAn agent pays for boilerplate on every request and has less context left for the real content.

Effort30–90 min

Fix: Strip repeated nav/header/footer/cookie chrome from the agent-visible output; wrap content in <main>/<article> so the extractor keeps signal and drops boilerplate.

Rendered profile: headless

Overall score

weighted CAV (0–100)

FAIL

0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

CRR Content Recovery Poor

0.84

SSD Semantic Signal Density Good

2,039 tok

TC Token Cost Good

15 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈16,529 across regions). 76% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content

24.1% · 3,979

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

8.8% · 1,449

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0.4% · 60

Other

66.8% · 11,041

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence92% of content requires JS · 8% 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.

high TC 75.9% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 24.1%, chrome 8.8%, boilerplate 0.4%, other 66.8%. Only 24.099999999999994% of the agent's tokens are real content.

ImpactAn agent pays for boilerplate on every request and has less context left for the real content.

Effort30–90 min

Fix: Strip repeated nav/header/footer/cookie chrome from the agent-visible output; wrap content in <main>/<article> so the extractor keeps signal and drops boilerplate.

Rendered profile: headless

Agent Discoverability 65/100 · 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: * (all) Learn →

✓ sitemap.xml Found at /sitemap.xml Learn →

✓ JSON-LD structured data Types: CollectionPage, WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization 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: * (all)

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

~ No content-blocking cookie wall medium impact Consent platform: onetrust (verify it doesn't block content)

Business impact A consent wall that hides content until a click is invisible to agents — they cannot click 'Accept'.

What we measured We fingerprint OneTrust, Cookiebot, Usercentrics and similar managers and flag content-blocking ones.

How to fix Use an overlay banner that leaves content in the DOM, not a blocking interstitial.

Spec: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

✗ 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

~ 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 (5)

✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ No login wall on public content✓ Structured data (JSON-LD)✓ XML sitemap present + fresh✓ 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.

70Transport posture (0–100, unscored)

3pass

1warn

1fail

Per-header findings (6)

Header	Evidence
✅ HTTPS	served over HTTPS
✅ HSTS	max-age=15768000
❌ Content-Security-Policy	no content-security-policy header
✅ X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
⚠️ Referrer-Policy	no referrer-policy header (browser default applies)
➖ CORS exposure	no CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page)

Full profile — how to improve · unused JS · network · timing

How to improve

highProfile reflects a block/challenge page — not your contenthighest leverage

whole profile

EvidenceMeasured against a block/challenge page (a bot-wall/CAPTCHA was served (www.gstatic.com)); every number here describes the wall, not your site.

ImpactAn AI agent hits the same wall and recovers none of your content — fix the block before optimizing anything else.

FixAllowlist legitimate agent user-agents / IP ranges in your WAF or bot-management and serve real content (not a challenge), then re-run.

Third-party impact

214 third-party requests · 2842 KiB (63.9% of transfer) · 142 ms main-thread — code an agent must also fetch/run before your content settles. Fewer, lazier third-parties = faster, cheaper agent reads.

Third-party domain	Reqs	Transfer	Main-thread
googlesyndication.com	17	655 KiB	—
pub.network	18	366 KiB	33 ms
gstatic.com	1	347 KiB	—
doubleclick.net	17	296 KiB	99 ms
cookielaw.org	6	242 KiB	—
boltdns.net	10	213 KiB	—
googletagmanager.com	1	181 KiB	—
webcontentassessor.com	1	113 KiB	10 ms
amazon-adsystem.com	6	102 KiB	—
onesignal.com	3	46 KiB	—
rapidedge.io	1	41 KiB	—
id5-sync.com	5	39 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).

Bundle	Transfer	Unused	Wasted
https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/BnqMGSY_YP4cCmbNINHpJPkd/recaptcha__en.js 3P	347 KiB	68.2%	237 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202609110101/pubads_impl.js?cb=122881017 3P	210 KiB	59.3%	125 KiB
https://a.pub.network/aljazeera-com/prebid.js 3P	176 KiB	53.5%	94 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-XN9JB9Q0M1 3P	181 KiB	51%	92 KiB
https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202601.2.0/otBannerSdk.js 3P	128 KiB	67.2%	86 KiB
https://a.pub.network/aljazeera-com/pubfig.engine.js 3P	147 KiB	52.2%	77 KiB
https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js 3P	93 KiB	53.6%	50 KiB
https://cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/web/v16/OneSignalSDK.page.es6.js?v=160610 3P	43 KiB	76.9%	33 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~main~d08ff9cb.efa8e804.r2.chunk.js	49 KiB	66.3%	33 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~aje/containers/home-page~components/video-article/videoPageDispatcher~containers/amp-live-blo~5f903362.cd4d3a31.r2.chunk.js	34 KiB	93.5%	32 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/component~components/audio/player/AudioPlayer~493df0b3.462d867f.r2.chunk.js	34 KiB	91.6%	31 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~aje/containers/home-page~components/featured-gallery-inner~components/vertical-video-experien~7e2f9923.87c45a2f.r2.chunk.js	35 KiB	86.4%	30 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/firebase-packages~7dbd8cdd.ed2955d7.r2.chunk.js	39 KiB	76.9%	30 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/component~aje/containers/home-page~components/video-article/videoPageDispatcher~containers/amp-live-~06be7c11.e01badbb.r2.chunk.js	37 KiB	76.4%	28 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/graphql-core~7dbd8cdd.a2cd05c5.r2.chunk.js	49 KiB	56.9%	28 KiB

Network

284Requests

4448 KiBTransferred

61Scripts

63.9%3rd-party

2Long tasks

Script (61)

2610 KiB

Image (46)

1278 KiB

Fetch (98)

166 KiB

Font (6)

113 KiB

Document (32)

108 KiB

Stylesheet (12)

104 KiB

Other (19)

40 KiB

XHR (9)

29 KiB

Ping (1)

1 KiB

Heaviest requests (30)

URL	Type	Status	Transfer
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/16442387689845915293	Image	200	460 KiB
https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/BnqMGSY_YP4cCmbNINHpJPkd/recaptcha__en.js	Script	200	347 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202609110101/pubads_impl.js?cb=122881017	Script	200	210 KiB
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-XN9JB9Q0M1	Script	200	181 KiB
https://a.pub.network/aljazeera-com/prebid.js	Script	200	176 KiB
https://a.pub.network/aljazeera-com/pubfig.engine.js	Script	200	147 KiB
https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202601.2.0/otBannerSdk.js	Script	200	128 KiB
https://scripts.mf.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/fbc1ae46ca1648e1001502b614ee99bb89881227aee2fc44acc1bab4338e8149	Script	200	113 KiB
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/17702298063448606149	Image	200	111 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/	Document	200	108 KiB
https://cdn.cookielaw.org/consent/602a83e6-bfb3-414b-866b-461b4fa31165/0198a48e-c865-7003-bad1-7753fabccd9e/en.json	Fetch	200	94 KiB
https://c.amazon-adsystem.com/aax2/apstag.js	Script	200	93 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/component~main~748942c6.7c824333.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	92 KiB
https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/managed/js/activeview/current/ufs_web_display.js	Script	200	74 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/bbf6df8386e74e3cadf9e3f2a252de2c_18.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80	Image	200	72 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-07-16T181644Z_1292684831_RC20FMAUZCCV_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-WEST-BANK-CHECKPOINT-1789596477.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80	Image	200	70 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/SWEETS-SHOP-1789630518.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80	Image	200	64 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AFP__20260910__C7WU3JV__v1__MidRes__MoroccoVoteParliament-1789565326.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80	Image	200	62 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/component~main~b07b7304.d4c57a02.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	61 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/react-core~7dbd8cdd.4a563648.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	54 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/graphql-core~7dbd8cdd.a2cd05c5.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	49 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~main~d08ff9cb.efa8e804.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	49 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~main~e5e84d97.570d6dc7.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	47 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2295602609-1-1789642509.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80	Image	200	46 KiB
https://cdn.onesignal.com/sdks/web/v16/OneSignalSDK.page.es6.js?v=160610	Script	200	43 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/vendor~main~7dbd8cdd.e289f18d.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	42 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/component~main~6e6dca10.d41e1856.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	42 KiB
https://metrics.rapidedge.io/gamera.js?ltv=1&audience=1&tpcs=1&partner=freestar	Script	200	41 KiB
https://www.aljazeera.com/static/js/firebase-packages~7dbd8cdd.ed2955d7.r2.chunk.js	Script	200	39 KiB
https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js	Script	200	38 KiB

Long tasks (>50 ms)

Start	Duration
292 ms	177 ms
2692 ms	62 ms

Analyzing…

running mobile + desktop · ~30s