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The Verge

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Overall score
65.4OK
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Rank
#195
Prev: #0
media avg
60.0
82 peers
Agent runs / week
1
Across 1 providers

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

Markets
US
Locales
en-us
Opportunity cost · media

The Verge could be leaving ~$3,529,200 in subscription & ad revenue on the table every year

Stunt Double’s 2027 agent-traffic model projects 34% of content discovery and subscription sessions in the media sector will be initiated or completed by AI agents[1][2]. The Verge currently scores 65.4 on the Stunt Double Index[3], with a 35-point gap to the ideal agent experience (100). The loss figure below applies that gap to the projected agent-driven slice of a typical annual subscription & ad revenuebaseline for this sector — it is a directional estimate, not a measured conversion rate.

Gap to leader
34.6 pts
Above media avg
0.0 pts
Modelled revenue at risk
$3,529,200

Estimate assumes a $30M combined subscription and ad-revenue baseline. Claim your domain to replace this placeholder with your reported subscription & ad revenue.

Sources
  1. [1]Gartner (2025) — Intelligent Agents in AI Really Can Work Alone. Here’s How.
  2. [2]Adobe Analytics (2025) — Generative AI traffic to U.S. retail sites (weekly trend)
  3. [3]Stunt Double (2026) — Stunt Double Index methodology & scoring rubric

Category breakdown

Brand awarenessCan agents recognise you exist?
65
DiscoveryWill they pick you?
75
Information retrievalCan they read your site?
90
Market rankingWhere do you sit in the lineup?
35
AccuracyDo they tell the truth about you?
100
Task completionCan an agent complete a task on behalf of a user?
60
Delegated accessDo you let agents in, safely?
24
Contact & communicationCan an agent reach a human?
50

By agent provider

By agent provider
Session quality, 30-day rolling, N ≥ 10 per provider
Claude
Anthropic
0.0
ChatGPT Agent
OpenAI
55.0
Gemini
Google
0.0
Perplexity
Perplexity
Copilot
Microsoft
Browserbase Operator
Browserbase

Where agents get stuck

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mediumBrand awareness
No Organization JSON-LD. Agents can’t tell who owns the site at a glance.
lowDiscovery
No llms.txt. You miss the emerging standard for giving agents a curated map of the site.
mediumMarket ranking
No Product/Service schema on the homepage. Agents can’t easily compare offerings.
lowMarket ranking
No review or aggregateRating schema. Agents have no signal for ranking vs peers.
highTask completion
Homepage returns a bot-challenge / CAPTCHA. Agents can’t complete a task if they can’t load the site.
mediumTask completion
No mention of delegated auth primitives (passkey, OAuth, MCP). Agents must drive a full browser session.
highDelegated access
No MCP manifest. Agents can’t auto-discover tools or delegated capabilities.
highDelegated access
No public API docs detected. Agents have no scoped way in; they must drive a browser.
mediumContact & communication
No contact email visible in server-rendered HTML. Agents can’t fall back to email.
mediumDiscovery
Claude is disallowed by robots.txt.
Evidence: Tokens checked: claudebot, claude-web, anthropic-ai
mediumDiscovery
ChatGPT Agent is disallowed by robots.txt.
Evidence: Tokens checked: gptbot, chatgpt-user, oai-searchbot
highTask completion
ChatGPT Agent hits a bot-challenge page on the homepage.
mediumDiscovery
Gemini is disallowed by robots.txt.
Evidence: Tokens checked: google-extended, googlebot
highTask completion
Gemini hits a bot-challenge page on the homepage.
mediumDiscovery
Perplexity is disallowed by robots.txt.
Evidence: Tokens checked: perplexitybot, perplexity-user
highTask completion
Copilot hits a bot-challenge page on the homepage.
highTask completion
Browserbase Operator hits a bot-challenge page on the homepage.