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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.shein.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

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www.shein.com

Report from 9/17/2026, 9:49:24 AM https://www.shein.com

Latest run · lab, cold cache

9/17/2026

28-day score · p75 · the standard

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4/7 runs — building history (nightly)

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/shein.com.svg)](https://agentvitals.dev/results?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shein.com)

HTML

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

What AI tells your customers about youAgent confidence: MEDIUM

✅Business nameSHEINca

✅CategoryOnlineStore

🟡Price$65.16 · guessed from page text (no structured data)

❌Locationnot found

❌Hoursnot found

❌Productsnot found

✅DescriptionExclusive discounts and latest trends at SHEIN — Dresses, Plus size, Tops, Bottoms, Shoes, and more. ✓ Free Shipping On Orders CA$39+✓App only. 15% Off With No Min.+✓Easy returns ✓ New Arrivals D…

An agent gets the basics but will guess on the gaps. 3/7 applicable facts come from machine-readable structured data.

Desktop Mobile

We recovered only a shell of this page (under 200 tokens) — likely a soft bot-block or a client-rendered app that served our scanner almost no content. The metrics below reflect that shell, not your real site; the score is capped until an agent can retrieve real content.

Overall score

weighted CAV (0–100)

FAIL

0–4950–8990–100

Metrics

CRR Content Recovery Poor

0.59

SSD Semantic Signal Density Needs work

172 tok

TC Token Cost Good

293 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈17,191 across regions). 49% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.

Content

51% · 8,768

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

33.7% · 5,795

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0% · 0

Other

15.3% · 2,628

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence97% of content requires JS · 3% 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.

medium SSD Low signal-to-noise for agents

content vs chrome/boilerplate

Evidencesignal 0.07 +llms.txt bonus · generic JSON-LD 1/1

ImpactAgent spends tokens parsing nav/boilerplate instead of content.

Effort30–90 min

Fix: Wrap the real content in <main>/<article>, cut repeated nav/boilerplate, and keep the primary content dense and early in the DOM.

medium TC 49% of tokens are non-content (boilerplate/chrome)

agent representation — token decomposition

EvidenceToken decomposition: content 51%, chrome 33.7%, boilerplate 0%, other 15.3%. Only 51% 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

0.65

SSD Semantic Signal Density Good

165 tok

TC Token Cost Good

313 ms

TTFUT Time to First Useful Token N/A

Token Cost breakdown

Where the page's tokens go (≈5,765 across regions). Most tokens are real content — the agent isn't paying much for chrome.

Content

70.1% · 4,042

Chrome (nav / header / footer)

10.5% · 605

Boilerplate (cookie / ad)

0% · 0

Other

19.4% · 1,118

Final screenshot

Diagnostics

high CRR Content is hidden behind JavaScript

pre-JS raw HTML

Evidence98% of content requires JS · 2% 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 90/100 · Agent Ready

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 Found at /llms.txt Learn →

✓ robots.txt (AI bots) Major AI bots allowed Learn →

✗ sitemap.xml No /sitemap.xml Learn →

✓ JSON-LD structured data Types: OnlineStore Learn →

~ agents.json Absent (emerging standard) Learn →

~ WebMCP endpoint Absent (emerging standard) Learn →

~ OpenAPI / API docs No OpenAPI/Swagger found Learn →

Issues (4)

✗ 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 (8)

✓ robots.txt allows AI bots✓ No CAPTCHA wall✓ No content-blocking cookie wall✓ Machine-readable prices✓ llms.txt present + valid✓ 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.

100Transport posture (0–100, unscored)

5pass

0warn

0fail

Per-header findings (6)

Header	Evidence
✅ HTTPS	served over HTTPS
✅ HSTS	max-age=7776000000; includeSubDomains
✅ Content-Security-Policy	policy present, script-src does not allow inline
✅ X-Content-Type-Options	nosniff
✅ Referrer-Policy	no-referrer-when-downgrade
➖ CORS exposure	no CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page)

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

A deeper scan (a second render, ~30–60s): network waterfall, unused JavaScript, long tasks, and prioritized fixes. Runs only when you ask; the result is cached so it never re-runs.

Analyzing…

running mobile + desktop · ~30s