canada.ca
30/100 F
Audited October 19, 2026 from public surfaces only. Can AI agents discover, read, and act on canada.ca? Check by check:
GPTBot: partial ClaudeBot: partial Claude-User: partial PerplexityBot: partial Google-Extended: partial CCBot: partial
| Check | Finding | Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | llms.txt for AI readers No /llms.txt found — AI readers get no curated entry point. |
0/15 | fail |
| A2 | AI crawler access policy robots.txt allows the major AI crawlers and agents. |
15/15 | pass |
| A3 | Content readable without a browser Plain fetch of the homepage yields ~25 words of visible text. |
0/25 | fail |
| A4 | Structured data (schema.org JSON-LD) No machine-readable entity markup on the homepage. |
0/15 | fail |
| A5 | Sitemap discoverable Sitemap advertised in robots.txt or served at /sitemap.xml. |
10/10 | pass |
| A6 | Everyday agent tasks reachable from the homepage Found from homepage: legal/privacy. |
5/20 | fail |
| B1 | MCP server advertised No MCP advertisement (bonus check — most sites skip this). |
0/5 | skip |
| B2 | OpenAPI description published No OpenAPI document (bonus check — only relevant for APIs). |
0/5 | skip |
What canada.ca would have to change
4 checks cost canada.ca points. Each one below is the specific remedy for what we measured, not general advice.
- llms.txt for AI readers0/15
Serve a plain-text file at
https://canada.ca/llms.txtlisting the pages an agent most often needs — pricing, docs, support, account management — each as a one-line description and an absolute URL. It is read by an agent arriving cold with no idea of your structure. Fifteen points, and most teams ship it in an afternoon. - Content readable without a browser0/25
Plain fetch of the homepage yields ~25 words of visible text. An agent fetches the page and reads what comes back; it does not run your JavaScript. Server-render the main content, or serve the same text to a plain request. This is the heaviest check on the board at 25 points, and the one that most often decides whether an agent can use a site at all.
- Structured data (schema.org JSON-LD)0/15
Add schema.org JSON-LD to the homepage —
Organizationat minimum, plusProductorArticlewhere they apply. It is how an agent learns what canada.ca is without inferring it from prose. - Everyday agent tasks reachable from the homepage5/20
An agent could not reach pricing, support/contact, docs/api from the canada.ca homepage, though legal/privacy was fine. These are what agents are sent to find most often. Each needs a plain link an agent can follow from the homepage in one hop — not behind a menu that only appears once JavaScript runs, and not solely in a logged-in view.
- MCP server advertised0/5
Optional, and rare — only a handful of the sites we track run one. An MCP server lets an agent act on canada.ca through a defined interface instead of scraping it. Advertise it at
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. - OpenAPI description published0/5
Optional. If canada.ca has a public API, publishing an OpenAPI document at
/openapi.jsonlets an agent call it correctly without a human reading your docs first.
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