48Grade D
Media · AI readiness report
Is The Kathmandu Post's website ready for AI?
Weak. AI sees only part of this business.
AI discovery20
Agent protocols10
Nepal readiness70
Structured data73
Content58
Security80
What The Kathmandu Post should fix first
The three changes that would raise this score the most.
MCP server
Publish an MCP server so ChatGPT and Claude can search and book your services directly.
llms.txt
Add /llms.txt: a short Markdown map of your key pages, services and prices for AI assistants.
AI bot rules
Add explicit User-agent rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended.
All 31 checks
What an AI crawler found on kathmandupost.com on 5 November 2026. Nepal-specific checks are marked with a red line.
AI discovery 20/100 · weight 20%
Missing
llms.txt
No LLM-oriented site map
Add /llms.txt: a short Markdown map of your key pages, services and prices for AI assistants.
Missing
AI bot rules
No rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot etc.
Add explicit User-agent rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended.
Missing
Sitemap
Missing
Publish /sitemap.xml and reference it in robots.txt.
Missing
AI content signals
No declared policy for AI training/indexing
Declare how AI may use your content (Content-Signal in robots.txt or an X-Robots-Tag header).
Pass
robots.txt
Found
Agent protocols 10/100 · weight 20%
Missing
MCP server
No /.well-known/mcp entry point
Publish an MCP server so ChatGPT and Claude can search and book your services directly.
Missing
OpenAPI
Missing
Publish an OpenAPI description of your public API.
Missing
Agent skills
Missing
Publish an agent skills index at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json.
Missing
API catalog
Missing
List your APIs at /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727).
Missing
Link headers
None
Advertise llms.txt, your API catalog or MCP server in HTTP Link headers.
Pass
HTML forms
1 form(s) on homepage
Nepal readiness 70/100 · weight 20%
Missing
NPR prices
No NPR prices in initial HTML
Show prices, fares and fees in plain HTML (Rs or NPR) so AI can quote them.
Missing
Payment rails
No eSewa/Khalti/Fonepay/ConnectIPS found
Show which local payment options you accept: eSewa, Khalti, Fonepay, ConnectIPS.
Pass
Legacy fonts
None detected
Pass
Unicode Nepali
0 Devanagari characters; Nepali version linked
Pass
PDF-only info
0 PDF links on homepage
Structured data 73/100 · weight 15%
Missing
Service schema
Nothing beyond basic or no types
Describe what you sell with Service, Product, Offer, Flight or FinancialProduct markup.
Missing
Canonical URL
Missing
Add a canonical link tag.
Pass
schema.org data
Types: ContactPoint, Organization
Pass
OpenGraph
3/3 present
Pass
Meta description
209 chars
Pass
Language tag
lang="en"
Content 58/100 · weight 15%
Missing
Markdown for agents
Ignores Accept: text/markdown
Serve a Markdown version when an agent asks for text/markdown.
Missing
Image alt text
1/79 images
Add alt text to images.
Partly
H1 heading
4 H1 tags
Use exactly one H1 that says what the page is.
Pass
Content in HTML
2418 words in initial HTML
Pass
Title
The Kathmandu Post | Read online latest news and articles from Nepal
Security 80/100 · weight 10%
Missing
security.txt
Missing
Publish /.well-known/security.txt with a contact.
Pass
HTTPS
Served over HTTPS
Pass
HSTS
Present
Pass
HTTPS redirect
Redirects
We checked the homepage and standard files only, so parts of the site may do better.
Other media websites in Nepal
Sector average: 45. Index average: 45.
Is this your website?
We can fix these gaps and connect The Kathmandu Post's services to ChatGPT and Claude, so customers can find and use them there.