How to stop layout shift so AI agents can interact reliably

AI Search Score checks whether your images declare width and height — a layout-stability signal. This is part of mirroring Google’s experimental Agentic Browsing audit.

Why this matters

AI agents are starting to interact with pages directly — clicking, filling forms, navigating. When the layout shifts as a page loads (an image arriving and pushing everything down), an agent can target an element that then moves, and the interaction fails. Images without declared dimensions are the most common cause of this shift. Google’s experimental Agentic Browsing category measures exactly this. It’s early days, but setting image dimensions is a free, sensible step that also helps human visitors and Core Web Vitals.

How to fix it

Always give images explicit width and height attributes. In the WordPress block editor, inserted images usually carry these automatically — the problem is often images added via custom HTML or page builders without dimensions.

• Check any hand-coded <img> tags and add width and height.
• This reserves the right space before the image loads, so nothing jumps.

How to check it worked

Re-scan. “Images declare width/height (layout stability)” should turn green, showing how many of your images are sized. (This pillar is informational and doesn’t change your main score — but a green here means you’re ahead on agentic readiness.)

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