What an agent reads
Type a page’s address and see it as a browser shows it beside the Markdown an AI assistant or agent gets from it, with what helps or hurts that reading.
- Menu and footerSet aside
- The h1 and headingsKept as # and ##
- Text in the HTMLKept
- Text drawn by scriptMissing for most AI crawlers
roof-repair.md
# Roof repair in Austin
We fix leaks and storm damage on shingle and metal
roofs, most within a week.
## What does a roof repair cost?
Most repairs cost $350 to $1,200. A quote is free.The words are in the HTML the server sends, under headings, so what an assistant keeps is the page itself and not an empty shell.
What does it check?
Rules from the rulebook, and how many of the sites mttr has read miss each.
- Put the text in the HTMLPut the page text in the HTML the server sends. Most AI crawlers do not run scripts.33%of sites miss it
- Allow pages to be indexedRemove noindex when the page is ready to be found.15%of sites miss it
- Fix pages that fail to loadFix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.28%of sites miss it
Questions
Do AI assistants run a page’s script?
Most AI crawlers do not. A page whose words arrive only by script often reaches them nearly empty.
Why turn a page into Markdown?
Assistants and agents work from a page’s text, not its layout. Markdown is close to what they keep once menus, footers and markup are set aside.
Does this show what an assistant will say about my page?
No. It shows what an assistant can read. What it says depends on the question it was asked and what else it read.
The whole site
One page is one part. A read checks every page against the whole rulebook and says what to fix first.
Read a whole site