www.apnews.com
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.
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.
Metrics
Token Cost breakdown
Where the page's tokens go (≈76,484 across regions). 47% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.
Final screenshot
Diagnostics
pre-JS raw HTML
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.
agent representation — token decomposition
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
Metrics
Token Cost breakdown
Where the page's tokens go (≈59,197 across regions). 59% is non-content — chrome and boilerplate an agent pays for. Add landmark roles (main/nav/header/footer) so agents can skip it.
Final screenshot
Diagnostics
agent representation — token decomposition
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
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
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).
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
~ 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.
# Your Site
> One-line description for AI agents.
## Key pages
- /products — catalog
- /pricing — plans
- /docs — documentationSpec: 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.
~ 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.
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.
Passed audits (6)
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.
Per-header findings (6)
| Header | Evidence |
|---|---|
| ✅ HTTPS | served over HTTPS |
| ✅ HSTS | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
| ✅ Content-Security-Policy | policy present, script-src does not allow inline |
| ❌ X-Content-Type-Options | missing nosniff |
| ⚠️ Referrer-Policy | no referrer-policy header (browser default applies) |
| ➖ CORS exposure | no CORS headers on the document (normal for an HTML page) |
How to improve
whole profile
Third-party impact
599 third-party requests · 7869 KiB (71.8% of transfer) · 44919 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| primis.tech | 63 | 1933 KiB | 19556 ms |
| jwpsrv.com | 14 | 664 KiB | — |
| pub.network | 23 | 438 KiB | 2472 ms |
| jwpcdn.com | 9 | 412 KiB | 2537 ms |
| gstatic.com | 4 | 396 KiB | — |
| googletagmanager.com | 2 | 337 KiB | 571 ms |
| viafoura.net | 18 | 312 KiB | 2539 ms |
| bounceexchange.com | 13 | 292 KiB | 2584 ms |
| doubleclick.net | 17 | 283 KiB | 632 ms |
| cookielaw.org | 12 | 266 KiB | 1441 ms |
| ntv.io | 1 | 260 KiB | 198 ms |
| confiant-integrations.net | 2 | 217 KiB | 295 ms |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
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| https://live.primis.tech/content/prebid/prebidVid.10.23.22.min.js 3P | 349 KiB | 69.9% | 244 KiB |
| https://live.primis.tech/content/video/hls/hls.1.6.15_1.min.js 3P | 252 KiB | 91.2% | 230 KiB |
| https://s.ntv.io/serve/load.js 3P | 260 KiB | 82.7% | 215 KiB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202607170101/pubads_impl.js?cb=31099833 3P | 196 KiB | 57.4% | 113 KiB |
| https://a.pub.network/apnews-com/pubfig.engine.js 3P | 193 KiB | 58% | 112 KiB |
| https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/sdkloader/ima3.js 3P | 151 KiB | 71.9% | 108 KiB |
| https://html-load.cc/script/YXBuZXdzLmNvbQ.js 3P | 145 KiB | 72.1% | 104 KiB |
| https://cdn.viafoura.net/vf-v2.js 3P | 187 KiB | 55.6% | 104 KiB |
| https://cdn.confiant-integrations.net/gptprebidnativevideo/202607011536/wrap.js 3P | 169 KiB | 60.8% | 102 KiB |
| https://a.pub.network/apnews-com/prebid.js 3P | 195 KiB | 52.4% | 102 KiB |
| https://ssl.p.jwpcdn.com/player/v/8.49.5/provider.hlsjs.js 3P | 142 KiB | 70.1% | 99 KiB |
| https://assets.apnews.com/resource/00000188-2a81-d28a-a1fd-7bfb6ccb0000/styles/default/All.min.ff2ba6899876ee78a1e76c66d6a06a13.gz.js | 111 KiB | 83.9% | 93 KiB |
| https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202604.2.0/otBannerSdk.js 3P | 136 KiB | 63.4% | 86 KiB |
Network
Heaviest requests (30)
| URL | Type | Status | Transfer |
|---|---|---|---|
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| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/173ba87/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3144x2096+0+0/resize/1440x960!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa4%2F88%2F73240a2ebd200b41d061af9e638d%2Faa2eb5bebfd34c3ab2af9139cfc9a1e8 | Image | 200 | 394 KiB |
| https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/A7KpaEASfhDcK0nXxgQEyyYv/recaptcha__en.js | Script | 200 | 374 KiB |
| https://live.primis.tech/content/prebid/prebidVid.10.23.22.min.js | Script | 200 | 349 KiB |
| https://video.primis.tech/uploads/cn1/video/users/hls/31784/video_6a2e9439af975514396855/vid6a5f30eb7a6f2793674409.mp4/w_1280_00000.ts | Media | 206 | 266 KiB |
| https://s.ntv.io/serve/load.js | Script | 200 | 260 KiB |
| https://live.primis.tech/content/video/hls/hls.1.6.15_1.min.js | Script | 200 | 252 KiB |
| https://video.primis.tech/uploads/cn1/video/users/hls/31784/video_6a2e9439af975514396855/vid6a5f30eb7a6f2793674409.mp4/w_1280_00001.ts | Media | 206 | 248 KiB |
| https://videos-cloudfront-usp.jwpsrv.com/6a5ffc86_e4737d79f17168fc07091cfe3b10c0a82893278a/sites/vJHGNSbp/media/Wv0v2WLt/versions/uUbfzezI/manifest.ism/manifest-audio_0_ABqIkhxN_Fs7bwEeg=111999-video_0_ABqIkhxN_fbKEWYva=554340-1.ts | XHR | 200 | 216 KiB |
| https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/managed/js/gpt/m202607170101/pubads_impl.js?cb=31099833 | Script | 200 | 196 KiB |
| https://a.pub.network/apnews-com/prebid.js | Script | 200 | 195 KiB |
| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/8460064/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5813x3477+0+0/resize/1440x861!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F9c%2F18%2F1f78ef21695cb0fd804518d4a718%2F46f7102b74b4478eb6bf20a5a7b1fce9 | Image | 200 | 195 KiB |
| https://a.pub.network/apnews-com/pubfig.engine.js | Script | 200 | 193 KiB |
| https://cdn.viafoura.net/vf-v2.js | Script | 200 | 187 KiB |
| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/4ca7631/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2749x1832+0+1/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Feb%2F4c%2F7c73a6b0cda8e5a1da369ff544b1%2Fe5c451b6d54d419e94a73523cf83205b | Image | 200 | 186 KiB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-KT7RHVG | Script | 200 | 182 KiB |
| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/5bec8cc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5218x3477+297+0/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F9c%2F18%2F1f78ef21695cb0fd804518d4a718%2F46f7102b74b4478eb6bf20a5a7b1fce9 | Image | 200 | 175 KiB |
| https://apnews.com/ | Document | 200 | 171 KiB |
| https://cdn.confiant-integrations.net/gptprebidnativevideo/202607011536/wrap.js | Script | 200 | 169 KiB |
| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/4486ea0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1440x960!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F6b%2Ff8%2F3707eb844c5681bad7efa205a34c%2F3a939486d002496e841feb0345e25154 | Image | 200 | 160 KiB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-CW1LS0SXPK&cx=c>m=4e67h1 | Script | 200 | 155 KiB |
| https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/db1c236/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3829x2551+0+1/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F1a%2F6d%2F9264a18dbe8934c3b19106d37f5e%2F4a33280e2f1243f18d18780a3f147daa | Image | 200 | 151 KiB |
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| https://videos-cloudfront-usp.jwpsrv.com/6a5ffa83_83c19a03c5ac4e60b6d8a83389a5ef0dd66d8cd5/sites/vJHGNSbp/media/SHqd37ST/versions/sP30ryAI/manifest.ism/manifest-audio_0_C1Zeptu8_o4woJOZI=112028-video_0_C1Zeptu8_8hmD1oax=386902-1.ts | XHR | 200 | 148 KiB |
| https://507b28fb-2ef1-4c34-8bda-ba32030bb199.edge.permutive.app/507b28fb-2ef1-4c34-8bda-ba32030bb199-web.js | Script | 200 | 145 KiB |
| https://html-load.cc/script/YXBuZXdzLmNvbQ.js | Script | 200 | 145 KiB |
| https://ssl.p.jwpcdn.com/player/v/8.49.5/provider.hlsjs.js | Script | 200 | 142 KiB |
| https://assets.apnews.com/resource/00000188-2a81-d28a-a1fd-7bfb6ccb0000/assets/fonts/APCustomFont/APVarW05-Regular.3c0c9d016bf55b85d0800dd405b807e3.woff2 | Font | 200 | 139 KiB |
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| 61187 ms | 2910 ms |
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