# The Dead Reader — web 4.0

> Manifesto and measurements for an agent-accessible internet: no one reads
> websites anymore, agents do — so we serve text, not pixels. This site
> practices its thesis: read /index.md instead of the HTML.

## Content

- [The full site as markdown](/index.md): the entire manifesto, measurements included — the representation intended for you
- [Human version](/): the same content rendered for human readers

## Related

- [Helmwise text mirror](https://helmwise-com.gct.to/llms.txt): the reference implementation — a partner site mirrored 100% to markdown, 18× fewer tokens than its HTML
- Measurements: 54-page site, raw HTML 1,283,103 tokens vs 71,473 as text (94.4% markup overhead), o200k tokenizer, 2026-09-02