Website Specification Launches Comprehensive Web Standards Guide
Original: The Website Specification
Why This Matters
Establishes unified web standards for human and AI agent accessibility
The Website Specification debuts as a platform-agnostic guide covering 128 technical topics across 10 categories including SEO, accessibility, security, and AI agent readiness. The open-source project provides checklists and implementation guidance for modern websites.
The Website Specification has launched as a comprehensive, platform-agnostic guide for building quality websites. The specification covers 128 technical topics organized into 10 categories: Foundations (14 topics), SEO (13), Accessibility (20), Security (12), Well-Known URIs (9), Agent Readiness (18), Performance (19), Privacy (6), Resilience (5), and Internationalisation (12). Each topic links to source standards from WHATWG, W3C, IETF RFCs, WCAG, and MDN. The project offers an MCP server for AI agents and provides per-page Markdown via /llms.txt. Built under MIT license with CC BY 4.0 content licensing, it welcomes contributions via GitHub and serves as a worked example of its own specifications.