What an agent pays to read your site
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When an AI agent visits your site to check a price or finish a task for someone, it pays to read the page. That cost is counted in tokens, and a normal HTML page is expensive. Navigation, styling, scripts and structured data all arrive whether the agent needs them or not. The agent either spends its budget getting past that markup or runs out of room and reads only part of the page. Both outcomes are yours to deal with, because they decide whether the agent gets your facts right. Your surface…
1Key Takeaways
- When an AI agent visits your site to check a price or finish a task for someone, it pays to read the page.
- That cost is counted in tokens, and a normal HTML page is expensive.
- Navigation, styling, scripts and structured data all arrive whether the agent needs them or not.
- The agent either spends its budget getting past that markup or runs out of room and reads only part of the page.
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3Why it matters
Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that when an AI agent visits your site to check a price or finish a task for someone, it pays to read the page.
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