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“Jerusalem Demsas' The Argument is a new magazine collecting the best economics, policy, & current affairs debates onto substack—I'm thrilled to be a contributor alongside some of the best writers in the business”...”
Joseph Politano, Apricitas Economics
“We believe Jerusalem & The Argument could do for Abundance what William F. Buckley & National Review did for Fusion Conservatism.”...”
Misha David Chellam, Modern Power
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Alice Evans, The Great Gender Divergence
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Thin: Too few words of their own are in the HTML for a page of their kind. Render the rest on the server. 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
91 pages, set against the 168,048 sites with figures.
- Readablehigher is better
- 99%90 of 91 pages
- All 168,048 sitesBetter than 43%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- Nonemiddle page
- All 168,048 sitesNo place yetWith no figure, it has no place.
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms. 91 pages are not measured, with no <main> or no words.
- Costshown, never scored
- 250,334tokens
- About 2,751 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
0 pages measured. Not measured: 91 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 |
| theargumentmag.comThis site, 91 pages | 99% | None | 2,751 |
| compactmag.com100 pages | 92% | 84% | 1,894 |
| civitasoutlook.com9 pages | 100% | 63% | 4,768 |
| kenklippenstein.com46 pages | 98% | None | 2,178 |
Second of 4 on Readable.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 8 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Not named | ChatGPT search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Not named | A page a person asks about | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Not named | Claude’s search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Not named | Perplexity search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Not named | Training Gemini | Falls to User-agent: * |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
Every AI crawler mttr checks may read it. Not named means the rules for every crawler apply.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
91 pages have no <main>. Wrap the page’s own content in <main>, so a reader knows where it starts and stops, and Clean can be measured.Open the action plan
| What an agent getshigher is better | Signals | Costnot scored | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page | Words | Clean | Readable | Main heading | Tokens | What it loses |
| / | 96 | No <main> | No | None | 221 | Thin and 2 more |
| /about | 323 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 809 | Script data and 1 more |
| /archive | 299 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,234 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/a-new-front-in-the-war-on-medicaid | 898 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 2,003 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/ad-free-podcast-for-paid-subscribers | 355 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,190 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/ad-free-podcast-for-paid-subscribers-db5 | 356 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,186 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/ad-free-podcast-for-paid-subscribers-fe5 | 379 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,266 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/all-you-need-to-know-about-pennsylvania | 551 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,427 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/americans-want-congress-to-stop-the | 3,341 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 6,847 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/are-we-on-the-road-to-serfdom | 362 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,197 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/are-we-running-out-of-math-with-kai | 646 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,647 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/become-a-fellow-at-the-argument-ad9 | 642 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,376 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/can-the-massachusetts-lesbian-bar | 2,536 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 5,210 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/cancel-columbus-save-jefferson | 358 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,092 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/concentration-killed-the-internet | 776 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,684 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/cornell-and-the-sexual-counterrevolution | 1,891 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 3,537 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/could-michigan-and-kansas-both-flip | 281 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 872 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/democracies-attract-immigrants-who | 2,583 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 5,014 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/derek-thompson-on-the-antisocial | 374 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,219 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/do-environmentalists-believe-in-renewable | 371 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,190 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/do-i-just-care-because-they-look | 3,295 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 6,016 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/do-trump-and-xi-need-to-agree-on | 303 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 1,042 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/does-central-planning-always-end | 1,662 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 3,713 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/environmental-laws-should-protect | 2,988 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 5,763 | Script data and 1 more |
| /p/god-is-back-on-the-timeline | 2,407 | No <main> | Yes | Yes | 5,129 | Script data and 1 more |
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/theargumentmag.com"><img src="https://mttr.si/agent-view/theargumentmag.com/badge.svg" alt="Agent View: 99% readable" height="20"></a>
The figures in one line
theargumentmag.com in Agent View: 99% of pages readable, better than 43% of sites; Clean not measured; 250,334 tokens to read all 91 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/theargumentmag.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 91 pages in <main>Clean measured
- Move script data into the text of 90 pagesReadable
- Render the rest of 1 page on the serverReadable
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 91 pages read, where the read stopped at its page limit. 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.