abcnews.go.com
Fetched 2026-10-29. Graded D, 63 of 100, 9 findings.
llms.txtagents.mdMedia kitEntity graphAI access policyAgent-callable
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What the fetch found
| Finding | Severity |
|---|---|
| The sitemap is refused | 4 of 5 |
| The sitemap is refused | 4 of 5 |
| robots.txt rules do not apply to named agents | 3 of 5 |
| robots.txt rules name a retired crawler, not the one that visits | 3 of 5 |
| The homepage sends crawlers to a different hostname | 3 of 5 |
| Almost nothing a machine receives from this page is readable text | 3 of 5 |
| The homepage is reached through a chain of redirects | 1 of 5 |
| No llms.txt | 1 of 5 |
| HTTPS is served without a Strict-Transport-Security header | 1 of 5 |
Section scores on this fetch
Weakest first. 6 of 21 scored sections at 90 or above.
| Section | Score |
|---|---|
| Authorship and trust signals (E-E-A-T proxies) | 0 |
| Payload and render path | 0 |
| Sitemap coverage | 0 |
| AI and search agents | 33 |
| Image signals | 40 |
| Quotable content | 50 |
| Mobile surface | 50 |
| Machine layer | 60 |
| Schema and entity graph | 63 |
| RDF and linked-data surface | 67 |
| Accessibility structure (from the delivered HTML) | 70 |
| Server and hosting | 75 |
| Machine-file trust chain | 75 |
| Naming and case consistency | 75 |
| What each agent receives | 83 |
| Crawl waste | 100 |
| Speed a crawler sees, and field data where it exists | 100 |
| Agent instruction surface | 100 |
| Exposed files and secrets | 100 |
| Error pages | 100 |
| Internal linking | 100 |
Shelves
| Shelf | State | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| llms.txt | not found | What counts, and who has it |
| agents.md | not found | What counts, and who has it |
| Media kit | not found | What counts, and who has it |
| Entity graph | not found | What counts, and who has it |
| AI access policy | on the shelf | What counts, and who has it |
| Agent-callable | not found | What counts, and who has it |
The full report for this fetch
Machine-readable: /api/registry?host=abcnews.go.com. This row states what was served to CrawlCheck at that time. It is not an endorsement, and it says nothing this scan did not measure.