The Direct Index
Report · Ghent · scanned 2026-10-16

Basic Italian

basic-italian.be is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Basic Italian directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sat 11:00–21:00 · Sun closed

+32476507732

Cette page en français · Deze pagina in het Nederlands

Nearby, also direct

Places near Basic Italian that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Basic Italian's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

75.4%

49 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is. In Ghent, 21% of comparable sites declare one.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 29 everyday questions about Ghent and named 116 places. Basic Italian wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Basic Italian compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Ghent

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML90%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours35%no
Have an llms.txt30%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 251,601 sites55%24%75.4%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
La bicyclette pasta740 mAyes
Italian corner pizza, pasta767 mDno
l'Arbre sandwich, soup, pasta1.1 kmByes
Bocca pasta1.1 kmAyes
Marengo pasta1.6 kmByes
Nonna pasta1.8 kmDno
De Kastart pasta1.9 kmCyes
Fusilli pasta2.0 kmByes
Bavet pasta2.3 kmDno
Mister Spaghetti pasta2.3 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Basic Italian in Ghent

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress in Ghent19966%48%75.4%
Findings

What to fix first

  1. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

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No one is listed yet to fix this in Ghent. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: phone; booking page /takeaway-shops-traiteur/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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