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title: "Rotten Tomatoes agent readiness: the 360 check | Agent Ready Crawlers"
description: "Rotten Tomatoes on Ora's agent-readiness scan, read 2026-11-09: 28 of 100, grade D. The door, what agents can read and do, the fixes worth most."
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# Rotten Tomatoes agent readiness: the 360 check | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Rotten Tomatoes on Ora's agent-readiness scan, read 2026-11-09: 28 of 100, grade D. The door, what agents can read and do, the fixes worth most.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/blog/rottentomatoes-agent-readiness
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-09
Agent endpoints: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadycrawlers.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadycrawlers.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadycrawlers.com/ask (search)
Access: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/pricing.md (free).

360 check, 9 November 2026

# Rotten Tomatoes: the 360 agent-readiness check

In short

Rotten Tomatoes scores 28 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, read 9 November 2026. At the door, site accessible to 6 AI agent user-agents. 12 of 70 applicable checks pass; the gap worth most is Public API with reachable endpoints, about 6.1 points by Ora's estimate. Wide open, almost unknown to the knowledge graph.

Rotten Tomatoes is the review aggregator owned by Fandango. On 9 November 2026 its public site scored **28 of 100** on [Ora's](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) agent-readiness scan, a D. Ora probes a site the way an agent would: it requests pages with the agents' own user agents, reads robots.txt, looks for the files agents read, and tries the API, MCP and payment surfaces. The check below walks through all 125 of its checks for this one domain, grouped the way an agent meets them. Ora's one-line summary: Sitemap exists, but lacks a public API with reachable endpoints.

## The score

| Layer | Asks | Points | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Discovery | Can agents find and recommend it | 2 of 9 | 22% |
| Access | Can agents read it | 23 of 47 | 49% |
| Usability | Can agents use it | 8 of 51 | 16% |
| Payments | Can agents pay | 0 of 0 | none apply |
| Total | Grade D | 28 of 100 | 28% |

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12 checks pass, 5 are partial, 53 fail and 55 do not apply to this site. Every check is defined in [Ora's catalog](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) (read 2026-11-05); the result for each one is in the groups below, with what Ora saw where it said.

## At the door

What the site answers when a request arrives with an agent’s user agent, and what robots.txt says to the crawlers in the Index.

Agents named in Ora's results, with their Index rows: [ChatGPT-User](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/chatgpt-user/), [ClaudeBot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/claudebot/).

| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 | Site accessible to 6 AI agent user-agents |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 | Reachable to all major AI crawlers - ChatGPT-User: reachable, ClaudeBot: reachable, Google-Extended: reachable, ora-agent: reachable, DeepSeekBot: reachable |
| robots.txt AI crawler policy | Fail | 0 of 2 | No AI crawler directives in robots.txt |
| robots.txt agent-user policy | Pass | 2 of 2 | No robots.txt restriction on user-triggered agents - they can read the site |
| Content behind auth | Pass | 2 of 2 | All 5 sampled pages are publicly readable (2 with substantive content) |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pages agents land on serve real content, not meta-refresh or JavaScript-only redirect stubs that strand non-JS agents |
| Web Bot Auth directory | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory found |

## What an agent can read

Whether the text is in the first response, what the site publishes for agents, and how it describes itself to them. 1 check in this group does not apply to this site and is left out.

| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 1 of 3 | 9018 chars of readable text, but no H1 tag |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 | All 3 measured pages fit an agent context budget (largest ~3K tokens) |
| Sitemap exists | Pass | 2 of 2 | Valid sitemap found at https://www.rottentomatoes.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml with multiple sitemaps entries |
| Sitemap freshness (lastmod) | Fail | 0 of 1 | None of the 18 sampled sitemap entries carries a lastmod date. Add <lastmod> (W3C datetime) so agents can prioritize fresh content. |
| llms.txt exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No llms.txt found at /llms.txt or /.well-known/llms.txt. |
| llms.txt formatting | Fail | 0 of 2 | No llms.txt found to evaluate quality |
| Markdown agent docs | Fail | 0 of 1 | Missing markdown content negotiation. Homepage returned text/html when probed with Accept: text/markdown (expected text/markdown), and none of the well-known root paths (/llms.md, /auth.md, /agents.md, /developers.md, |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 | Homepage does not support the .md suffix. Probed https://rottentomatoes.com/index.md and it did not return markdown (expected text/markdown content-type or a heading-led non-HTML body). |
| Bot-UA markdown serving | Fail | 0 of 1 | No probed bot User-Agent (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, ora-agent, DeepSeekBot) receives markdown when requesting HTML. |
| Agent mode view | Fail | 0 of 2 | ?mode=agent returns same content as homepage (no dedicated agent view) |
| JSON-LD structured data | Fail | 0 of 4 | No JSON-LD structured data found on homepage |
| Organization schema completeness | Fail | 0 of 2 | No JSON-LD found - Organization schema missing |
| JSON-LD entity linking (sameAs) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No JSON-LD found - no entity linking possible |
| Schema type breadth | Fail | 0 of 2 | No extended schema types found - AI can only answer basic questions about this entity |
| Metadata completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 | All metadata signals present: canonical URL, lang="en", og:image, og:type |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use | Fail | 0 of 3 | No agent instruction file with when-to-use guidance found |

## What an agent can do

The surfaces an agent acts on: an API it can find and call, an MCP server, an agent card, a command line. 5 checks in this group do not apply to this site and are left out.

| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Public API with reachable endpoints | Fail | 0 of 7 | No publicly reachable API surface detected (REST and GraphQL both absent or auth-gated) |
| Public API/docs linked from homepage | Fail | 0 of 3 | No public API or documentation page linked from homepage |
| OpenAPI spec published | Pass | 7 of 7 | OpenAPI spec found at https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/rottentomatoes.com/1.0/swagger.json (version: 2.0) |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/api-catalog found (RFC 9727) |
| MCP server / manifest | Fail | 0 of 6 | No MCP server or manifest found |
| MCP well-known discovery | Fail | 0 of 2 | No MCP server URL discovered |
| A2A / agent-card | Fail | 0 of 2 | No A2A agent card found at /.well-known/agent-card.json |
| Agent discovery file | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent discovery file found |
| OAuth 2.0 support | Fail | 0 of 5 | No OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect support detected |
| OAuth Protected Resource metadata (RFC 9728) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource found (RFC 9728) |
| auth.md exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /auth.md found at site root |
| WebMCP support | Fail | 0 of 5 | No WebMCP support detected - no tool-attribute forms and no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found (scanned 8 of 8 same-origin script bundle(s) for modelContext registrations) |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No NLWeb-conformant /ask endpoint found via GET or POST |
| JSON error responses | Fail | 0 of 4 | API does not return JSON error responses (or no API detected) |

## Found and recommended

Whether an assistant can find the company by name, confirm what it is, and see it in the registries agents read. 3 checks in this group do not apply to this site and are left out.

| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brand name discoverability | Partial | 1 of 3 | rottentomatoes.com appears once in brand-name search results for "Rotten Tomatoes" (position #5 out of 6) |
| Wikipedia / Wikidata entity presence | Fail | 0 of 4 | No Wikipedia article or Wikidata entity found for "rottentomatoes" - creating a Wikipedia page and a Wikidata item with P856 = rottentomatoes.com is the highest-impact step for AI search citation coverage |
| Developer resource discoverability | Partial | 1 of 3 | Agent found 2 pages by name but no recognizable developer-resource type. Not found in this search sample: API docs, OpenAPI spec, developer portal, auth docs, MCP server, SDK documentation |
| ChatGPT app listed | Fail | 0 of 2 | Not found in ChatGPT app directory |
| Listed on skills.sh | Fail | 0 of 1 | No official skills self-published on skills.sh (1 community skill with potential relation to this domain found, but only self-published official skills count) |
| ARD discovery | Fail | 0 of 1 | No /.well-known/ard.json (and no legacy /.well-known/ai-catalog.json) |

## The fixes worth most points

Ora attaches an estimate to each failing or partial check: how many points the site would gain by passing it. These are the 5 with the largest estimates for Rotten Tomatoes, with what Ora observed. The wording of each fix is Ora's job; the links go to the check in its catalog.

Public API with reachable endpoints

Fail, 0 of 7, about 6.1 points to gain. Ora saw: No publicly reachable API surface detected (REST and GraphQL both absent or auth-gated)

Wikipedia / Wikidata entity presence

Fail, 0 of 4, about 5.3 points to gain. Ora saw: No Wikipedia article or Wikidata entity found for "rottentomatoes" - creating a Wikipedia page and a Wikidata item with P856 = rottentomatoes.com is the highest-impact step for AI search citation coverage

MCP server / manifest

Fail, 0 of 6, about 5.2 points to gain. Ora saw: No MCP server or manifest found

Developer resource discoverability

Partial, 1 of 3, about 4.9 points to gain. Ora saw: Agent found 2 pages by name but no recognizable developer-resource type. Not found in this search sample: API docs, OpenAPI spec, developer portal, auth docs, MCP server, SDK documentation

Brand name discoverability

Partial, 1 of 3, about 4.9 points to gain. Ora saw: rottentomatoes.com appears once in brand-name search results for "Rotten Tomatoes" (position #5 out of 6)

## Our read

Rotten Tomatoes is wide open and almost unknown to the knowledge graph. Ora's home page request was accepted for six agent user agents, robots.txt carries no AI crawler directives at all and places no restriction on user-triggered agents, five of five sampled pages were readable and the home page returned 9,018 characters without JavaScript, though with no H1 and no JSON-LD. The Discovery layer then reads 2 of 9 because Ora found no Wikipedia article or Wikidata item it could tie to the domain under the name it searched, and the brand appeared fifth of six results for its own name. The only OpenAPI document is a third-party copy of an old API in the APIs.guru directory, and no API of Fandango's own was reachable. A D at 28 for a site this readable is a knowledge-graph entry and a heading tag away from a C.

## Check your own door

The scan above is free and needs no account: enter a domain at [ora.ai](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) and read the same four layers for your own site, then compare the door with the [Block Rate Report](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/) for sites of your rank and kind. Our [guide to testing whether agents can reach your site](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/test-whether-ai-agents-can-reach-your-site/) has the curl commands for a manual check, and the [robots.txt builder](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/robots-builder/) writes a policy file from the Index. Payments did not apply to this site; a site that sells would read that layer against the [vendors at the door](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/ranking/).

[Scan your own domain on Ora](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check)

[All 360 checks](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/blog/). One company a day; corrections to [the corrections page](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/corrections/).

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The check we recommend

[Ora](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) scans a public URL: 16 Discovery checks and 42 Access checks, read from its catalog on 2026-11-05. Its Journey sends a real agent to the site. [How to run it](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/test-whether-ai-agents-can-reach-your-site/).

**Limits.** Ora reads public URLs only, and what it records as blocked comes from its own network. It says the same scan run twice converges within a couple of points ([Ora's Deep Scan post](https://ora.ai/blog/introducing-deep-scan?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check)), and the pages we read give no repeat-scan figures. Its fixing product is behind a waitlist ([Ora's home page](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check)).

## Sources

-   [Ora's scan of rottentomatoes.com, GET /api/score (vendor)](https://ora.ai/api/score/rottentomatoes.com?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) read 2026-11-09
-   [Ora's check catalog, GET /api/checks (vendor)](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) read 2026-11-05
-   [Rotten Tomatoes home page](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/) read 2026-11-09
-   [How to test whether AI agents can reach your site (this site)](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/test-whether-ai-agents-can-reach-your-site/) read 2026-11-04
-   [Ora: Deep Scan v2 (vendor)](https://ora.ai/blog/introducing-deep-scan?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) read 2026-11-05
-   [Ora home page, waitlist (vendor)](https://ora.ai/?utm_source=agentreadycrawlers.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=check) read 2026-11-05

Last reviewed 2026-11-09