Serving Markdown via Accept Headers Optimizes AI Agent Crawling
August 26, 2026
Websites can improve AI agent performance by serving Markdown content through the Accept: text/markdown header. This reduces token consumption, improves RAG retrieval signal-to-noise ratios, and lowers latency by stripping away DOM overhead.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can improve the efficiency of your RAG pipelines by negotiating for Markdown content from web sources.