techcrunch.com

Fetched 2026-10-18. Graded C, 79 of 100, 4 findings.

llms.txtagents.mdMedia kitEntity graphAI access policyAgent-callable

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What that covers

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What the fetch found

Finding	Severity
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
A missing agent file answers with a full page	1 of 5

Section scores on this fetch

Weakest first. 10 of 22 scored sections at 90 or above.

Section	Score
Payload and render path	20
Authorship and trust signals (E-E-A-T proxies)	29
AI and search agents	33
Machine layer	60
Internal linking	60
Image signals	60
Quotable content	67
Schema and entity graph	78
Accessibility structure (from the delivered HTML)	78
Server and hosting	80
Naming and case consistency	80
What each agent receives	88
RDF and linked-data surface	100
Entity corroboration	100
Crawl waste	100
Page subject, the Webref question	100
Speed a crawler sees, and field data where it exists	100
Machine-file trust chain	100
Claim consistency	100
Agent instruction surface	100
Mobile surface	100
Sitemap coverage	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	on the shelf	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=techcrunch.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.