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No <main>: Wrap the page’s own content in <main>, so a reader knows where it starts and stops, and Clean can be measured. No h1: Give each one h1 that says what the page is.
The figures
97 pages, set against the 168,015 sites with figures and 197 in news.
- Readablehigher is better
- 100%97 of 97 pages
- All 168,015 sitesBetter than 47%197 news sitesBetter than 54%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- 87%middle page
- All 168,015 sitesBetter than 79%197 news sitesBetter than 71%
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms. 95 pages are not measured, with no <main> or no words.
- Costshown, never scored
- 143,023tokens
- About 1,474 a page
To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.
How its pages spread on Clean
2 pages measured. Not measured: 95 with no <main> or no words.
Against its rivals
The sites nearest it by what they do, with figures. Close means similar work, not better.
| Readinghigher is better | Costnot scored | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Readable | Clean | Tokens a page |
| goodinternetmagazine.comThis site, 97 pages | 100% | 87% | 1,474 |
| ritiksahni.com69 pages | 93% | 87% | 524 |
| coryd.dev100 pages | 82% | 74% | 221 |
First of 3 on Readable, second on Clean.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 1 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Blocked | Training models | User-agent: GPTBot / Disallow: / |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Blocked | ChatGPT search | User-agent: OAI-SearchBot / Disallow: / |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Blocked | A page a person asks about | User-agent: ChatGPT-User / Disallow: / |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Blocked | Training models | User-agent: ClaudeBot / Disallow: / |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Blocked | Claude’s search | User-agent: Claude-SearchBot / Disallow: / |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Blocked | Perplexity search | User-agent: PerplexityBot / Disallow: / |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Blocked | Training Gemini | User-agent: Google-Extended / Disallow: / |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
7 of 8 are kept out. A crawler kept out never reads a page, however well it is made.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
95 pages of 97 lose something. Pick a loss to see what to do about it.Open the action plan
| What an agent getshigher is better | Signals | Costnot scored | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | Words | Clean | Readable | Main heading | Tokens | What it loses |
| / | 684 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,685 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /page/2 | 766 | No <main> | Yes | None | 2,043 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /page/3 | 766 | No <main> | Yes | None | 1,999 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /page/4 | 89 | No <main> | Yes | None | 272 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /signin | 5 | No <main> | Yes | None | 62 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /signup | 5 | No <main> | Yes | None | 62 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /subscribe | 5 | No <main> | Yes | None | 62 | No <main> and 1 more |
| /18-lessons-from-18-years-of-blogging | 2,349 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 3,489 | No <main> |
| /about | 235 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 491 | No <main> |
| /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think | 2,870 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 4,379 | No <main> |
| /ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations | 2,247 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 3,950 | No <main> |
| /author/aaron | 86 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 249 | No <main> |
| /author/alexandra | 201 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 605 | No <main> |
| /author/ben | 82 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 237 | No <main> |
| /author/charlotte | 80 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 249 | No <main> |
| /author/declan | 76 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 234 | No <main> |
| /author/devonne | 83 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 254 | No <main> |
| /author/grant | 81 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 252 | No <main> |
| /author/greg-sarjeant | 165 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 421 | No <main> |
| /author/grubdog | 80 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 258 | No <main> |
| /author/hamit | 77 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 227 | No <main> |
| /author/james | 78 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 233 | No <main> |
| /author/jan-miksovsky | 97 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 279 | No <main> |
| /author/jay | 77 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 238 | No <main> |
| /author/joel | 74 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 227 | No <main> |
Show where it stands
A card, a badge and a line, each with the figures.
A badge for the site
<a href="https://mttr.si/agent-view/goodinternetmagazine.com"><img src="https://mttr.si/agent-view/goodinternetmagazine.com/badge.svg" alt="Agent View: 100% readable, 87% clean" height="20"></a>
The figures in one line
goodinternetmagazine.com in Agent View: 100% of pages readable, better than 54% of news sites; 87% clean; 143,023 tokens to read all 97 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/goodinternetmagazine.com
What to do next
Fix the pages, let an agent do it, and read the site again to see the figures move.
Fix what agents miss
- Wrap 95 pages in <main>Clean measured
- Give 7 pages a main headingClearer
Connect your agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor reads the site’s fixes over MCP, fixes a page in your code, has mttr read it again, and checks the fix landed.
https://mttr.si/mcpSet up an agent
Claim the site
Prove it is yours with a DNS record or a file. Your agent can then reach its reads and jobs, and set each change to wait for your approval.
Claim the siteDrawn from the HTML mttr fetched on its read of October 24, 2026, not a screenshot, and only from the 97 pages read. An assistant’s own reader may differ. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each. A site an agent reads well is not a site an assistant cites.