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No alternative content format (markdown, plain text, or API) observed on the homepage. Providing machine-readable content formats improves AI extractability.
Issue ID: AI-MARKDOWN-001
Severity: advisory
Impact: Low
Effort: M
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What this issue is
No alternative content format (markdown, plain text, or API) observed on the homepage. Providing machine-readable content formats improves AI extractability.
Why it matters
No alternative content format (markdown, plain text, or API) observed on the homepage. Providing machine-readable content formats improves AI extractability. This affects clarity, topical depth, and whether a visitor sees an obvious reason to keep reading.
How we detect it
- FreeSiteAudit flags this issue when the rule for AI-MARKDOWN-001 fails and the page evidence points to Dom body.
- You can usually confirm this by checking the page source or the relevant page settings inside your CMS.
Evidence examples
Check the affected page source, rendered output, or relevant CMS setting to confirm the missing or incorrect element.
How to fix it
- 1Consider offering an /api or /feed endpoint for key content
- 2Provide a /llms.txt file with structured content guidance
- 3Ensure RSS/Atom feeds are available for blog content
How to re-check it
- At least one machine-readable content format is available
Related tools
This issue is best verified with the full FreeSiteAudit crawl rather than a single-point mini tool.