# Netlify

[docs.netlify.com](https://docs.netlify.com)

- **Overall score:** 74/100 (Grade C)
- **Checks passed:** 12 / 29
- **Last computed:** 2026-05-12

## Components

### Content Discoverability

- **Score:** 64/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 2 failed and 1 warning across 6 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Agents need a clear entry point and crawl map before they can reliably discover the right pages.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **LLMS TXT Exists** — llms.txt found at 2 location(s)
- ⚠️ **LLMS TXT Valid** — llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://docs.netlify.com/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found; https://docs.netlify.com/docs/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found Your llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't follow the standard structure. Add an H1 title as the first line and a blockquote summary (lines starting with >) to improve agent parsing.
- ✅ **LLMS TXT Size** — llms.txt is 20,038 characters (under 50,000 threshold)
- ✅ **LLMS TXT Links Resolve** — All 15 same-origin sampled links resolve (82 total links)
- ❌ **LLMS TXT Links Markdown** — Same-origin links point to HTML and no markdown alternatives detected Your llms.txt links point to HTML pages. Update them to .md URL variants so agents receive markdown instead of converted HTML.
- ❌ **LLMS TXT Directive** — No llms.txt directive found in any of 15 sampled pages No agent-facing directive pointing to llms.txt was detected on any tested page. Add a blockquote near the top of each page (e.g., "> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt)"). This can be visually hidden with CSS while remaining accessible to agents.

### Markdown Availability

- **Score:** 27/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 1 failed and 1 warning across 2 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** When markdown is available directly, agents spend less effort stripping presentation markup and guessing structure.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ❌ **Markdown Url Support** — No sampled pages support .md URLs (0/15 tested) Your pages don't return markdown when .md is appended to the URL. Configure your docs platform to serve .md variants for all documentation pages.
- ⚠️ **Content Negotiation** — Content negotiation partially supported: 0 correct type, 15 wrong type, 0 HTML only Your server returns markdown content for Accept: text/markdown requests but with an incorrect Content-Type header. Set the response Content-Type to text/markdown for proper agent handling.

### Page Size and Truncation Risk

- **Score:** 94/100 · **Status:** partial
- **Summary:** 1 warning across 4 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Large pages and delayed primary content increase truncation risk and make retrieval less reliable.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Rendering Strategy** — All 15 sampled pages contain server-rendered content
- ✅ **Page Size Markdown** — All 15 pages under 50K chars (median 7K, max 20K)
- ✅ **Page Size Html** — All 15 sampled pages convert under 50K chars (median 33K, 73% boilerplate)
- ⚠️ **Content Start Position** — 9 of 15 sampled pages have content starting at 10–50% (worst 16%) 9 of 15 pages have documentation content starting 10-50% into the converted output. Inline CSS or boilerplate consumes part of the agent's truncation budget before content begins.

### Content Structure

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** partial
- **Summary:** 1 skipped across 3 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Predictable sections, valid code fences, and serialized tabs make the content easier for agents to parse correctly.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Tabbed Content Serialization** — 4 tab group(s) across 3 of 15 sampled pages; all serialize under 50K chars
- ⏭️ **Section Header Quality** — 3 page(s) with tabs found, but no section headers inside tab panels to evaluate
- ✅ **Markdown Code Fence Validity** — All 59 code fences properly closed across 17 pages

### URL Stability and Redirects

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** pass
- **Summary:** 2 AFDocs checks pass.
- **Rationale:** Stable URLs and sane redirect behavior prevent retrieval drift and broken tool references.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Http Status Codes** — All 15 sampled pages return proper error codes for bad URLs
- ✅ **Redirect Behavior** — All 14 redirect(s) across 15 sampled pages are same-host HTTP redirects

### Observability and Content Health

- **Score:** 47/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 2 failed across 3 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Coverage, parity, and cache behavior determine whether agents can trust the content they retrieve.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ❌ **LLMS TXT Freshness** — llms.txt covers 80/394 sitemap doc pages (20%); 314 missing; 2 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap) Your llms.txt covers less than 80% of your site's pages. 314 live pages are missing from the index. Regenerate llms.txt from your sitemap or build pipeline.
- ❌ **Markdown Content Parity** — 2 of 15 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 12% missing) 2 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 12% missing). Agents receiving the markdown version are getting outdated or incomplete content. Regenerate markdown from source or fix the build pipeline.
- ✅ **Cache Header Hygiene** — All 17 endpoints have appropriate cache headers

### Authentication and Access

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** partial
- **Summary:** 1 skipped across 2 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Agents need either public access or a clear alternative path when documentation is gated behind auth.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Auth Gate Detection** — All 15 sampled pages are publicly accessible
- ⏭️ **Auth Alternative Access** — All docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths needed

### Full Content Discoverability

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** llms-full.txt has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** A full-document snapshot gives long-context agents a single canonical corpus to ingest without repeated crawling.
- **Reference:** [llms-full.txt guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/llmstxt#llms-full-txt)

**Checks**

- ❌ **LLMS Full Exists** — No llms-full.txt file was discovered.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Size** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Valid** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Links Resolve** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.

### Agent Skills

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** skill.md has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** Agent skills provide product-specific operating guidance that plain documentation pages do not encode on their own.
- **Reference:** [skill.md guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/skillmd)

**Checks**

- ❌ **Skill MD** — No agent skill definition was discovered.

### MCP Server

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** MCP has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** A discoverable MCP server lets agents use first-class tools instead of scraping pages and inferring behavior.
- **Reference:** [MCP guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/model-context-protocol)

**Checks**

- ❌ **MCP Server Discoverable** — No MCP server was discovered at the expected endpoints.
- ⏭️ **MCP Tool Count** — Skipped because the MCP server was not discoverable.