How do I check if my website is ready for AI agents?
Run Chrome's Lighthouse Agentic Browsing audit (Chrome 150 or later), then check five things by hand: robots.txt allows AI crawlers, your text is in the page source, key facts are written as text, form fields are labelled, and you have an llms.txt file. The whole test takes about 20 minutes.
ShoaibUpdated 3 min read
Step 1: Run the Lighthouse audit
In Chrome, open your site, then open DevTools → Lighthouse → Agentic browsing. Instead of a score out of 100, it shows how many checks passed and a pass or fail for each. It checks:
- WebMCP tools (these checks need the WebMCP origin trial)
- How agents read the page: element names, labels, and whether things are visible
- Layout stability: whether content jumps around while loading (CLS)
- Discoverability: whether there's an llms.txt at your domain root
Step 2: The 5-point manual check
| Check | How | Pass if |
|---|---|---|
| AI crawlers allowed | Open yoursite.com/robots.txt |
OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and Googlebot aren't blocked |
| Text in the page | Right-click → View page source | Your headline and prices appear in the code |
| Facts in text | Look at prices, hours, areas, phone | None of them appear only inside images |
| Labelled forms | Look at every form field | Each one has a clear label |
| llms.txt | Open yoursite.com/llms.txt |
The file loads |
Step 3: Ask the AI directly
Ask ChatGPT and Perplexity the questions your customers ask, such as "clinic booking in Salmiya" or "Shopify developer in Kuwait". If competitors are cited and you aren't, you have a gap in your content, not just a technical one.
What if I fail some checks?
Most fixes are small, like writing prices as text, adding labels and changing a line in robots.txt. WebMCP tools are the only bigger job, and they're optional for now.
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