fool.com llms.txt
In short
fool.com serves a 1.9 KB llms.txt with 2 H2 sections and 17 links, graded A on the llmstxt.org structure (6 of 6 checks). It passes every check. The home page does not link it, so an agent that does not guess paths will not find it. No llms-full.txt was found. Read 4 November 2026.
llms.txt 1.9 KB, 31 lines
# The Motley Fool
> Stock investing research, market news, and personal finance from The Motley Fool.
fool.com publishes investing analysis, stock quotes, educational articles, and podcasts. This file is a short map of the public site for AI agents.
## Pages
- [Home](https://www.fool.com/): Featured investing stories and market coverage
- [Stock quotes](https://www.fool.com/quote/): Quote lookup, charts, and company data
- [Investing news](https://www.fool.com/investing-news/): Latest investing articles
- [Trending news](https://www.fool.com/trending-news/): Popular market stories
- [Podcasts](https://www.fool.com/podcasts/): Show list and episodes
- [Authors](https://www.fool.com/author/): Author directory
- [Calculators](https://www.fool.com/calculators/index/): Personal finance calculators
- [How to invest](https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/): Investing education
- [Financial terms](https://www.fool.com/terms/): Glossary of investing and finance terms
- [Research](https://www.fool.com/research/): Data-driven analysis and financial statistics
- [Markets](https://www.fool.com/markets/): Market data tables and stock performance lists
- [Stock market basics](https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/): Evergreen investing articles
- [Slideshows](https://www.fool.com/slideshow/): Visual investing guides
- [About](https://www.fool.com/about/): Company information
- [Legal](https://www.fool.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/): Terms and legal pages
## Notes
- Quote pages use `/quote/{exchange}/{symbol}/` (example: [/quote/nasdaq/aapl/](https://www.fool.com/quote/nasdaq/aapl/)).
- Article URLs often include a date: `/{section}/YYYY/MM/DD/{slug}/`.
- Podcast shows use `/podcasts/{show}/` and episodes use `/podcasts/{show}/{YYYY-MM-DD}-{slug}/` (example: [/podcasts/hidden-gems/](https://www.fool.com/podcasts/hidden-gems/)).
- Earnings call transcripts use `/earnings/call-transcripts/YYYY/MM/DD/{slug}/`.
First 30 of 31 lines.
Parse graded A, 6 of 6
file: https://fool.com/llms.txt
The Motley Fool
Stock investing research, market news, and personal finance from The Motley Fool.
2 sections, 17 links, no Optional section.
Ora's cached score: 48, grade C, scanned 13 September 2026.
The parse
fool.com lists 17 links: 17 point at fool.com or a relative path, 0 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: fool.com (17).
| H2 section | Links |
|---|---|
| Pages | 15 |
| Notes | 2 |
Grade against the llmstxt.org structure
The file passes all six checks. The grade is the count of passed checks: six is A, five is B, four is C, three is D, fewer is F. It measures structure only. Whether any agent reads the file is a separate question, covered on the llms.txt reference.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Starts with an H1 naming the site or project | Pass | H1: The Motley Fool |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 2 H2 sections, 2 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Pass | 17 of 17 links stay on fool.com (100 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 1946 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |
Ora's cached score
Ora's cached report for fool.com gives it 48 of 100, grade C, scanned on 13 September 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 24 of 51 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/fool.com on 5 November 2026. The score is Ora's, not this site's, and the structure grade above is a different measure: it grades the llms.txt file against the llmstxt.org proposal, while Ora's score covers the whole site. Ora's report for fool.com has every layer.
| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 2 of 3 |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt exists | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| llms.txt formatting | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| JSON-LD structured data | Partial | 2 of 4 |
| Metadata completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Not applicable | 0 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Code fence validity | Not applicable | 0 of 1 |
| Content behind auth | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| OpenAPI spec published | Fail | 0 of 7 |
| Markdown agent docs | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown negotiation with Vary | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown for agent user agents | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 |
Linking and the companion file
The home page of fool.com does not link the file in its HTML. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that 86 percent of llms.txt fetches by agents arrived through a link, so an unlinked file is mostly a file nobody opens. No llms-full.txt was found at the same root.
How it compares
At 1.9 KB the file is larger than 8 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 17 links put it ahead of 29 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: Under 2 KB. Tranco rank 3,111. Category: Top 10,000, no category.
Live file: https://fool.com/llms.txt. Read 4 November 2026. If the file has since changed or gone, the live URL is the authority; this page records what the crawl read on that date.
Sources
- fool.com llms.txt https://fool.com/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026
- llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
- Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026
- Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
- Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026