# Asteri: Agent-Direct Score D (45.7%) Site: http://www.asterichicago.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/asterichicago.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Asteri is hard for agents to use. Some AI assistants are turned away by Asteri's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Address: 218 W Division St, 60610, Chicago - Prices: 56 prices on the site, the middle one $150 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Asteri that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Polish And Pour Nail Spa Old Town (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/polishandpour.com - 7am Nail Care (350 m): https://directindex.org/r/7amnails.com - Old Town Barbershop (350 m): https://directindex.org/r/oldtownbarbershopchicago.com - New Image Works Medical Spa (360 m): https://directindex.org/r/newimageworks.com ## What to fix first - **No online booking link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add an online appointment page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **56 prices on the landing page, the middle one $150.** ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Asteri > organization in 218 W Division St, 60610, Chicago, Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons. ## About - Website: http://www.asterichicago.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it ## Where it stands 1190 of 1980 in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 60% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 97% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 18% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 54% | no | Nearest places in the index: Europa Barber Shop (D, 91 m, https://directindex.org/r/europabarbershop.com); Crystal Nails (F, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/crystalnails.com); Med Salon Spa (F, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/medsalonspa.com); Polish And Pour Nail Spa Old Town (B, 152 m, https://directindex.org/r/polishandpour.com); Refine Nails & Spa (B, 191 m, https://directindex.org/r/refinenailsspa.com); Dancing Fingers Authentic Chinese Massage (D, 231 m, https://directindex.org/r/dancingfingersmassage.com); 7am Nail Care (B, 346 m, https://directindex.org/r/7amnails.com); Old Town Barbershop (B, 350 m, https://directindex.org/r/oldtownbarbershopchicago.com); Visage Joli Makeup and Hair Chicago (C, 360 m, https://directindex.org/r/visagejoli.net); New Image Works Medical Spa (B, 362 m, https://directindex.org/r/newimageworks.com). ## What assistants answer The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included. The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons and named 55 places. Asteri wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 45.7%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/asterichicago.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Asteri in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | 1980 | 50% | 21% | 45.7% | | Sites built with WordPress in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | 433 | 57% | 27% | 45.7% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons: Maxwell Pro Line (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/maxwellproline.com); Allure De Vie Salon & Day Spa (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/alluredeviespa.com); Ruby's Beauty Salon (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/rubys.com); SpaSpace Chicago (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/spaspacechicago.com); XEX Salon (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/xexchicago.com). With the three fixes above (No online booking link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found), the score would be about 90.3%. That would be 12th of 1,980 in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 1190th. ## The direct record What agents get for Asteri, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/asterichicago.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no - MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no - Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 21.7 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/asterichicago.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/asterichicago.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/asterichicago.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=asterichicago.com&force=1