dev.to
up 6 from 62 on 1 Sept 2026
Embed your badge ↗dev.to scores 68 out of 100 on the a14y v0.3.0-draft scorecard. The scan checked a single page, and 68% of the applicable checks passed. The site publishes llms.txt and a valid XML sitemap; AGENTS.md and a markdown sitemap are absent.
Site checks · 9/13 passed
Evaluated once against the site's origin: discoverability surfaces like
llms.txt, AGENTS.md, and sitemap signals.
- PASS llms-txt.exists Found llms.txt at https://dev.to/llms.txt
- PASS llms-txt.content-type text/plain; charset=utf-8
- PASS llms-txt.non-empty
- FAIL llms-txt.md-extensions 7/7 links are not .md/.mdx
- PASS robots-txt.exists https://dev.to/robots.txt
- PASS robots-txt.allows-ai-bots Allowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended
- PASS robots-txt.allows-llms-txt
- PASS sitemap-xml.exists https://dev.to/sitemap-index.xml
- PASS sitemap-xml.valid sitemapindex
- PASS sitemap-xml.has-lastmod 149250 entries with valid lastmod
- FAIL sitemap-md.exists sitemap.md not reachable
- FAIL agents-md.exists https://dev.to/.cursorrules returned an HTML page, not an agent skill file
- FAIL agents-md.has-min-sections Found only: (none)
Pages · 1
Single page audited: https://dev.to/.
- PASS http.status-200 200
- 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
- PASS html.canonical-link https://dev.to/
- PASS html.meta-description 83 chars
- PASS html.og-title
- PASS html.og-description
- PASS html.lang-attribute en
- FAIL html.json-ld no parseable JSON-LD found
- PASS html.headings 29 headings
- FAIL html.text-ratio 4.7%
- 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
- PASS html.ssr-content 1682 words in initial HTML
- PASS http.no-interstitial