UCP Checker
Ecosystem Pulse

UCP adoption & ecosystem stability

Real-time monitoring data for the Universal Commerce Protocol. 22,636 domains tracked, 18,405 verified, updated every 24 hours. See runtime performance grades on the leaderboard.

Last updated: Sep 28, 2026 · 8:48 PM UTC

Health
LIVE
92/100
Ecosystem Stability Score

Composite health score weighing endpoint verification rates, response latency, freshness, reachability, and state transition volatility across the entire monitored ecosystem.

18,405
Verified Merchants

Stores with valid UCP manifests, parseable JSON, and required spec fields present — 81% of all monitored domains.

Coverage
22,636
Domains Monitored

Total stores in the crawl index, growing weekly via the directory, browser extension, and submissions.

24H
99.8%
Freshness Rate

Verified stores re-observed in the last 24 hours. Higher freshness means more reliable real-time data. A further 0.3% of stores could not be re-observed in the window (rate limited or unreachable edges); their last observation stands.

99%
On Latest Spec

Verified stores already running 2026-08-25 — the newest published UCP spec version. Lower numbers mean migration is still in progress across the ecosystem.

Performance
302ms
Average Response

Mean manifest fetch time across verified stores. Agents typically abandon requests after 2 seconds.

47%
Sub-200ms Stores

Verified stores responding in under 200ms — the agent-ready latency threshold.

1%
Timeout Risk

Verified stores responding slower than 800ms — high risk of agent abandonment.

Breakdowns

Status Breakdown

All 22,636 monitored domains by check status

Verified
18,405 (81.3%)
Not Detected
1,828 (8.1%)
Invalid
490 (2.2%)
Blocked
792 (3.5%)
Unreachable
1,107 (4.9%)
Pending
14 (0.1%)

UCP Score Distribution

A 0–100 grade for agent-readiness across 22,593 scored stores. Bands match Lighthouse + SSL Labs — A is deliberately hard to earn. Get a score for any domain →

Domains scored
22,593
Average score
80/100B
Grade A stores
18,387/22,593
A 85–100 · Ready for agents
18,387 (81.4%)
B 70–84 · Nearly there
225 (1%)
C 50–69 · Partly ready
72 (0.3%)
D 30–49 · Hard for agents
479 (2.1%)
F 0–29 · Not ready
3,430 (15.2%)

Spec Version Distribution

UCP versions declared by verified merchants — version alignment indicates ecosystem readiness for protocol upgrades

2026-08-25
18,259 (99.2%)
2026-04-08
116 (0.6%)
2026-01-11
14 (0.1%)
2026-01-23
13 (0.1%)

Capability Adoption

UCP capabilities declared by verified merchants — coverage indicates how much of the protocol surface area the ecosystem supports

Checkout
18,292 (99.4%)
Identity Linking
10,720 (58.2%)
Cart Management
18,254 (99.2%)
Order Management
10,785 (58.6%)
Payment Token Exchange
7 (0%)
Catalog
18,322 (99.5%)

Strategic Primitives

The four capabilities that gate deeper agentic commerce — AP2 mandate, identity linking, buyer consent, embedded checkout. Adoption is small today; every new merchant on this list is a meaningful signal for the protocol's maturity.

AP2 Mandate
9 (0.05%)
Identity Linking
10,750 (58.41%)
Buyer Consent
21 (0.11%)
Embedded Checkout
1 (0.01%)
AI Agent Access

AI Bot Block Rates

Percentage of monitored domains blocking each AI agent via robots.txt or other policy

GPTBot (OpenAI)1%
Google-Extended0.8%
ClaudeBot0.8%
Applebot-Extended0.7%
All robots.txt blocks0.4%
Stability

Endpoint State Transitions

When a domain's UCP status degrades between crawls — losing verification, becoming unreachable, or getting blocked — it signals protocol instability. Our stability score weighs these failures while rewarding positive transitions like new verifications.

State transitions (last 7 days)833
Most common failure pattern (7d)blocked → unreachable (130×)
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Weekly UCP Report
Issue #52 · Sep 28, 2026
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new verified stores
Verified rate
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