Agent readiness report

sourceforge.net

What an AI agent can and cannot do on this site, measured by an unauthenticated crawl and scored against the published rubric.

Scanned 2026-09-08 · rubric v1.0.1 · scored as a general site · re-scan (results are cached for seven days)

What to fix first

Ranked by impact first, then by how cheap the fix is — the same ordering the engine uses.

1C1
Form usability
High impact · Medium effort
Fix: 45 of 48 inputs have no associated label; 3 input(s) use the wrong type for their content. A placeholder is not a label — an agent filling your form has no way to know what an unlabelled field wants.
2B2
Correct schema types for the site type
High impact · Medium effort
Missing: type-specific markup (Article, FAQPage, Service, SoftwareApplication). For a other site, Article or FAQPage or Service or SoftwareApplication is what lets an agent understand what you actually offer rather than that you exist.
3C4
Machine endpoints and agent manifests
High impact · High effort
Found API documentation link. A second machine surface — an OpenAPI spec or an MCP server — takes this to full marks.
4B4
Meta and Open Graph
Medium impact · Low effort
Fix: 1 title(s) outside 15–70 characters; 1 description(s) outside 50–160 characters; 1 page(s) missing og:title, og:description or og:image.
5A5
Bot user-agent HTTP health
Medium impact · Low effort
Your robots.txt welcomes these agents, but GPTBot received 403, ClaudeBot received 403 — the block is happening at your CDN or WAF, before robots.txt is ever read. Cloudflare in particular blocks AI crawlers by default on every plan. One setting change, and it is invisible until someone tests it.

Every check, with the evidence

No finding without evidence: each result shows what we actually captured during the crawl.

ADiscovery & access

A1Pass
robots.txt exists and parses
2/2
What we captured
```
{
  "groups": 3,
  "status": 200,
  "sitemaps": 7
}
```
A2Pass
Major AI crawlers allowed
6/6
What we captured
```
{
  "of": 6,
  "allowed": 6,
  "blocked": []
}
```

A3Pass

XML sitemap valid and referenced

3/3

What we captured

{
  "exists": true,
  "urlCount": 123,
  "referencedInRobots": true
}

A4Partial
llms.txt present
3/4
Add an llms-full.txt containing your key content as one markdown document. Agents that need the substance can then read it in a single fetch instead of a dozen.
What we captured
```
{
  "present": true,
  "llmsFullTxt": false,
  "describedLinks": 3592
}
```
A5Partial
Bot user-agent HTTP health
1/3
Your robots.txt welcomes these agents, but GPTBot received 403, ClaudeBot received 403 — the block is happening at your CDN or WAF, before robots.txt is ever read. Cloudflare in particular blocks AI crawlers by default on every plan. One setting change, and it is invisible until someone tests it.
What we captured
```
{
  "probes": [
    {
      "name": "GPTBot",
      "status": 403,
      "ttfbMs": 73
    },
    {
      "name": "ClaudeBot",
      "status": 403,
      "ttfbMs": 11
    },
    {
      "name": "PerplexityBot",
      "status": 200,
      "ttfbMs": 214
    }
  ],
  "medianTtfbMs": 73,
  "edgeBlockingDespiteRobots": true
}
```
A6Pass
No hard interstitial
2/2
What we captured
```
{
  "markers": []
}
```

A7Pass

Server-rendered content parity

5/5

What we captured

{
  "ratio": 1,
  "rawTextLength": 10600,
  "renderedTextLength": 688
}

BUnderstanding

B1Pass

JSON-LD present and valid

5/5

What we captured

{
  "pagesCrawled": 6,
  "pagesWithValidJsonLd": 6,
  "homepageHasValidJsonLd": true,
  "pagesWithInvalidJsonLd": 0
}

B2Partial
Correct schema types for the site type
2/5
Missing: type-specific markup (Article, FAQPage, Service, SoftwareApplication). For a other site, Article or FAQPage or Service or SoftwareApplication is what lets an agent understand what you actually offer rather than that you exist.
What we captured
```
{
  "matched": [],
  "missing": [
    "type-specific markup (Article, FAQPage, Service, SoftwareApplication)"
  ],
  "siteType": "other",
  "typesFound": [
    "Organization",
    "PostalAddress",
    "SearchAction",
    "WebSite"
  ]
}
```

B3Partial

Semantic HTML structure

1/4

Headings and landmarks are how a machine builds an outline of the page. One h1, no skipped levels, and real main/nav/footer elements — all template-level fixes, applied once.

What we captured

{
  "problems": [
    "https://sourceforge.net: missing main",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Atera/: missing main",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/NinjaOne/: skipped heading level",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/NinjaOne/: missing main",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Rippling/: skipped heading level",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Rippling/: missing main",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Pipedrive/: skipped heading level",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Pipedrive/: missing main",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Freshservice/: skipped heading level",
    "https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Freshservice/: missing main"
  ],
  "singleH1": 6,
  "allLandmarks": 0,
  "pagesCrawled": 6,
  "noSkippedLevels": 2
}

B4Fail
Meta and Open Graph
0/3
Fix: 1 title(s) outside 15–70 characters; 1 description(s) outside 50–160 characters; 1 page(s) missing og:title, og:description or og:image.
What we captured
```
{
  "goodTitles": 5,
  "pagesCrawled": 6,
  "uniqueTitles": true,
  "goodDescriptions": 5,
  "completeOpenGraph": 5
}
```
B5Partial
Clean text ratio
2/3
Visible text is 9.3% of your markup. Deeply nested wrapper elements make a page expensive to parse and dilute the content an agent extracts. Script and style contents are already excluded from this measure, so this is markup weight, not framework overhead.
What we captured
```
{
  "perPage": [
    0.107,
    0.065,
    0.094,
    0.111,
    0.103,
    0.076
  ],
  "averageRatio": 0.093
}
```

B6Pass

Alt text coverage

2/2

What we captured

{
  "withAlt": 190,
  "coverage": 0.97,
  "contentImages": 195
}

B7Pass

Canonical and duplication hygiene

3/3

What we captured

{
  "hostVariants": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.sourceforge.net",
      "status": 301,
      "location": "https://sourceforge.net/"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://sourceforge.net",
      "status": 301,
      "location": "https://sourceforge.net/"
    }
  ],
  "pagesCrawled": 6,
  "selfConsistentCanonicals": 6
}

CActionability

C1Partial
Form usability
1.45/6.11
Fix: 45 of 48 inputs have no associated label; 3 input(s) use the wrong type for their content. A placeholder is not a label — an agent filling your form has no way to know what an unlabelled field wants.
What we captured
```
{
  "forms": 15,
  "inputs": 48,
  "realSubmit": true,
  "unlabelled": 45,
  "wrongTypes": 3
}
```

C2Partial

Navigable link graph

3.67/4.89

Fix: 8% of links use contextless text like "click here".

What we captured

{
  "anchors": 162,
  "genericLinks": 13,
  "genericRatio": 0.08,
  "hasBreadcrumb": false,
  "clickableNonAnchors": 0
}

C3Pass

Interactive element semantics

4.89/4.89

What we captured

{
  "realButtons": 4,
  "positiveTabindex": 0,
  "clickableNonButtons": 0,
  "keyboardTrapsTested": false
}

C4Partial
Machine endpoints and agent manifests
3.67/6.11
Found API documentation link. A second machine surface — an OpenAPI spec or an MCP server — takes this to full marks.
What we captured
```
{
  "found": [
    "API documentation link"
  ]
}
```
C5Not applicable
Commerce actionability
0/4
Not a commerce site; these points are redistributed across C1–C4.
What we captured
```
{
  "siteType": "other"
}
```

C6Pass

On-site search

3/3

What we captured

{
  "param": "q",
  "usesGet": true,
  "searchForm": true,
  "searchAction": true
}

DTrust & freshness

D1Pass

Transport security

4/4

What we captured

{
  "hsts": true,
  "tlsValid": true,
  "mixedContentReferences": 0
}

D2Pass

Verifiable identity

4/4

What we captured

{
  "sameAsCount": 3,
  "contactDiscoverable": true,
  "hasOrganizationSchema": true
}

D3Pass

Policies discoverable

4/4

What we captured

{
  "hasTerms": true,
  "siteType": "other",
  "hasPrivacy": true,
  "hasReturns": false,
  "hasShipping": false
}

D4Partial
Freshness signals
1/4
Fix: sitemap has no lastmod values; only 0% of sitemap URLs modified in the last 90 days. Staleness is a ranking signal for models deciding what to cite.
What we captured
```
{
  "sitemapUrls": 123,
  "withLastmod": 0,
  "visibleDates": true,
  "modifiedLast90Days": 0
}
```

D5Partial

Identity consistency

2/3

Fix: no og:image. An unexplained name mismatch reads as a signal the site may not be what it claims.

What we captured

{
  "title": "Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge",
  "hasFavicon": true,
  "hasOgImage": false,
  "ogSiteName": "",
  "schemaName": "SourceForge"
}

D6Fail
security.txt
0/2
Publish /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact field and a future-dated Expires field. It is a five-line text file.
What we captured
```
{
  "status": 404,
  "present": false
}
```

D7Pass

Multi-page stability

4/4

What we captured

{
  "nonOk": [],
  "slowPages": 0,
  "pagesCrawled": 6,
  "consistentTemplate": true
}

73B

Discovery & access22/25

Understanding15/25

Actionability16.68/25

Trust & freshness19/25

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What to fix first

Form usability

Correct schema types for the site type

Machine endpoints and agent manifests

Meta and Open Graph

Bot user-agent HTTP health

Every check, with the evidence

ADiscovery & access

robots.txt exists and parses

Major AI crawlers allowed

XML sitemap valid and referenced

llms.txt present

Bot user-agent HTTP health

No hard interstitial

Server-rendered content parity

BUnderstanding

JSON-LD present and valid

Correct schema types for the site type

Semantic HTML structure

Meta and Open Graph

Clean text ratio

Alt text coverage

Canonical and duplication hygiene

CActionability

Form usability

Navigable link graph

Interactive element semantics

Machine endpoints and agent manifests

Commerce actionability

On-site search

DTrust & freshness

Transport security

Verifiable identity

Policies discoverable

Freshness signals

Identity consistency

security.txt

Multi-page stability

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