scanned Jul 15, 2026
latimes.com
A news publication providing coverage of local and global events, entertainment, and lifestyle topics.
Tier 3 · Agent-Accessible
Scored by asking 10 questions a buyer of a media product asks, then grading this site’s own pages: answered, hedged (partial or vague), or silent (no page answers it). How scoring works
10 buyer questions · graded against the site’s own pages
Goes silent · operations · medium importance
How many days in advance must I request a temporary vacation hold for my print delivery?
Goes silent · community · low importance
How long do comment sections remain open on obituary articles before they are automatically closed?
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Sign in to claim58 points sit between latimes.com and 100: 8 open questions and 9 missing protocol checks, ordered by estimated payoff.
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How many days in advance must I request a temporary vacation hold for my print delivery?
No page on the site addresses this.
Add a FAQ or help center article explaining how many days in advance customers must request a temporary vacation hold for print delivery.
confidence high · grounding world-knowledge · weight 0.00 · Absent
How long do comment sections remain open on obituary articles before they are automatically closed?
No page on the site addresses this.
Publish a community guidelines, FAQ, or terms of service page that specifies how long comment sections remain open on obituary articles.
Where we looked: classifieds.latimes.com, /local/obituaries/la-me-wallace-beery-19490417-story.html, /archives
confidence high · grounding world-knowledge · weight 0.00 · Absent
Are RSS feeds available for specific sections like California or Entertainment, and what format do they use?
No page on the site addresses this.
Add a syndication or RSS page that lists available section feeds (e.g., California, Entertainment) and specifies the format (RSS 2.0, Atom, etc.).
Where we looked: /california, /b2b/entertainment, www.latimes.com, latimes.com
confidence high · grounding synthesized · weight 0.00 · Absent
A buyer gets something, then has to guess the rest. Expand any row for the evidence and the fix.
What is the specific process for submitting a factual correction request for an archived historical article?
No page on the site addresses this.
Ensure the 'For the Record' page fully renders its corrections policy and submission process in static HTML so crawlers can index it, or add a dedicated FAQ on how to request corrections to archived articles.
Where we looked: /about/for-the-record
confidence high · grounding synthesized · weight 0.00 · Collapsed
Can I access full historical obituaries from the 1920s without a subscription, or is a login required?
The L.A. Times website hosts historical obituaries from the 1920s in its archives section (e.g., Sarah Bernhardt, 1923; Walter Rothwell, 1927) and links to them as full obituaries. However, the retrieved chunks do not explicitly state whether a subscription or login is required to view the full text of these historical archive articles. The Terms of Service only note that registration is not required for “certain Content” but may be required for “certain other Content.”
Add a clear help center or FAQ page that explicitly states the access model for historical archives and obituaries, including whether a subscription or login is required to view full articles from the 1920s.
Where we looked: /local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sarah-bernhardt-19230328-story.html, /entertainment/arts/laphil/la-et-cm-la-phil-walter-rothwell-obit-19270313-story.html, /terms-of-service
confidence medium · grounding world-knowledge · weight 0.40 · Vague
As a digital subscriber, how many gift articles can I share with non-subscribers each month?
The retrieved chunks do not specify how many gift articles a digital subscriber can share with non-subscribers each month. The L.A. Times Terms of Service note that users may be able to email a story to a friend through designated online functionality, but no monthly limit is stated. The site also details gift subscriptions (purchasing a subscription for someone else), which is a separate product.
Add a help center article or FAQ that explains the digital subscriber gift article benefit, including the specific number of articles that can be shared with non-subscribers each month.
Where we looked: /terms-of-service, /gift-subscription-terms
confidence low · grounding synthesized · weight 0.55 · Vague
How many articles can I read for free each month before the paywall requires me to subscribe?
The Los Angeles Times Terms of Service state that there is a limit on the number of free articles that non-subscribers may access per week, but the specific number of free articles allowed is not provided in the retrieved content. The L.A. Times app FAQ also notes that non-subscribers have access to only a limited number of articles without specifying the count.
State the exact number of free articles allowed per week before the paywall requires subscription, e.g., in the Terms of Service or a dedicated FAQ page.
Where we looked: /terms-of-service, /app
confidence medium · grounding synthesized · weight 0.65 · Vague
Does the LA Times mobile app allow offline article downloads, and is there a limit to how many I can save?
The L.A. Times app lets you save articles for later by tapping the ribbon icon while viewing a story; saved articles appear in the “Saved” section under the “Me” tab. However, the provided chunks do not specify whether saved articles are available for offline reading, nor do they mention any limit on how many articles you can save.
Add a FAQ entry that explicitly states whether saved articles are available offline and whether there is a limit on the number of articles that can be saved.
Where we looked: /app
confidence medium · grounding synthesized · weight 0.65 · Vague
2 of 10. Answered with enough specificity for a buyer to act on. This is the bar the queue above is chasing.
How can I verify a reporter’s current staff role or beat coverage area directly from their byline page?
Reporter byline pages on latimes.com (at latimes.com/people/[name]) include biographical descriptions that state the reporter’s current staff role and beat coverage area. For example, Corinne Purtill’s byline page identifies her as “a science and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times,” and Salvador Hernandez’s byline page identifies him as “a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team.”
Source: /science/story/2026-07-10/nobel-prize-winner-leaving-uc-berkeley-for-new-role-in-china, /politics/story/2026-07-12/lindsey-graham-cause-of-death-preliminary-report
confidence high · grounding synthesized · weight 0.95 · Answered
Does the LA Times offer a dedicated California politics newsletter, and where on the site do I sign up?
Yes. The L.A. Times offers a dedicated California Politics newsletter that delivers “deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond” twice per week. You can sign up via embedded signup modules on politics article pages, which include an email registration field and an “Agree & Continue” button.
Source: /la-sen-hiram-johnsons-death-20150401-htmlstory.html, /politics/story/2026-07-14/permanent-daylight-saving-time-is-on-table-would-california-scrap, /politics/story/2026-07-15/blanche-to-face-questions-about-his-independence-at-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing
confidence high · grounding synthesized · weight 0.95 · Answered
The other half of the score: 16 checks for the files and headers agents look for. The 9 below are installs, not judgment calls, and most are an afternoon. Expand any for the snippet and the standard it follows. They sit after the queue because none of them changes what your pages say.
Sitedex generates this file from your crawl. Grab it in Files from this audit below.
Standardllmstxt.orgCommunity spec
User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Extended Allow: /
StandardRFC 9309IETF RFC
User-agent: * Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no Allow: /
StandardCloudflare proposalVendor proposal
StandardRFC 9110 + 7763IETF RFC
Sitedex generates this file from your crawl. Grab it in Files from this audit below.
StandardModel Context ProtocolCommunity spec
StandardOpenAPI SpecIndustry standard
Sitedex generates this file from your crawl. Grab it in Files from this audit below.
StandardW3C WebMCP draftW3C / WHATWG
<link rel="canonical" href="https://latimes.com/" />
StandardRFC 6596IETF RFC
Sitedex generates this file from your crawl. Grab it in Files from this audit below.
StandardSchema.org + JSON-LDIndustry standard
Already passing 7 of 16: robots.txt, sitemap.xml, Clean crawl, Server-rendered content, Meta descriptions, HTML lang attribute, Sitemap lastmod.
Sitedex already serves latimes.com as an MCP endpoint. Ask latimes.com anything an AI agent might ask, and see what its index returns. (To score your own site, use the form below.)
For developers and the engineer-on-call: copy these into your tools or your site.
Files from this audit
Built from this crawl. Download or copy each, then install it at the path noted.
Built from this crawl. Install at /llms.txt so agents start here.
Organization JSON-LD, pre-filled from this crawl. Wrap in a ld+json script.
MCP server card built from this crawl. Host at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.
WebMCP discovery manifest built from this crawl. Host at /.well-known/webmcp.json.
MCP endpoint
https://mcp.sitedex.dev/s/latimes-com/mcp
The URL anyone's agent points at. Read-only; safe to share.
Claude Code
claude mcp add latimes --transport http https://mcp.sitedex.dev/s/latimes-com/mcp
One command, then the agent has it.
Cursor / Continue
{
"mcpServers": {
"latimes": {
"url": "https://mcp.sitedex.dev/s/latimes-com/mcp"
}
}
}Drop into mcp.json.
WebMCP: two parts
WebMCP-capable browsers run the widget at runtime. Crawlers without JS rendering need the discovery manifest to find your tool surface. Install both.
1 · Widget script
<script async src="https://sitedex.dev/widget.js"></script>
Drop in <head>. WebMCP-capable browsers (Chrome 146+ Origin Trial) call navigator.modelContext.provideContext() via this script.
2 · Discovery manifest
{
"$schema": "https://wellknownmcp.org/schemas/webmcp.json",
"name": "latimes.com",
"tools": [
{ "name": "search", "description": "Search latimes.com's indexed content." },
{ "name": "get_page", "description": "Fetch a page from latimes.com as markdown." }
]
}Host alongside the script at /.well-known/webmcp.json. Crawlers that don't render JS rely on this.
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