AP News
down 18 from 61 on 27 May 2026
Embed your badge ↗AP News scores 43 out of 100 on the a14y v0.3.0-draft scorecard. The scan checked a single page, and 43% of the applicable checks passed. The site publishes a valid XML sitemap and a markdown sitemap; llms.txt and AGENTS.md are absent.
Site checks · 6/10 passed
Evaluated once against the site's origin: discoverability surfaces like
llms.txt, AGENTS.md, and sitemap signals.
- FAIL llms-txt.exists No llms.txt or llms-full.txt found at /, /.well-known/, or /docs/
- PASS robots-txt.exists https://apnews.com/robots.txt
- FAIL robots-txt.allows-ai-bots Blocks: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot
- PASS robots-txt.allows-llms-txt
- PASS sitemap-xml.exists https://apnews.com/ap-sitemap.xml
- PASS sitemap-xml.valid sitemapindex
- PASS sitemap-xml.has-lastmod 1385539 entries with valid lastmod
- PASS sitemap-md.exists https://apnews.com/ap-sitemap.xml
- FAIL sitemap-md.has-structure sitemap.md is missing headings or links
- FAIL agents-md.exists No agent skill file found
Pages · 1
Single page audited: https://apnews.com/.
- FAIL http.status-200 Got 429
- PASS http.redirect-chain 0 hops
- PASS http.content-type-html text/html; charset=utf-8
- PASS http.no-noindex-noai no x-robots-tag
- FAIL html.canonical-link missing
- FAIL html.meta-description missing
- FAIL html.og-title missing
- FAIL html.og-description missing
- PASS html.lang-attribute en-US
- FAIL html.json-ld no parseable JSON-LD found
- FAIL html.headings only 0 headings
- PASS html.text-ratio 58.0%
- FAIL html.glossary-link no glossary/terminology link
- FAIL markdown.mirror-suffix no .md/.mdx mirror found
- FAIL markdown.alternate-link no <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown">
- FAIL markdown.content-negotiation text/html; charset=utf-8
- FAIL html.ssr-content only 0 words in initial HTML (looks like a JS-rendered shell)
- PASS http.no-interstitial