The Direct Index
Report · Paris hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-20

Better Than Cream

betterthancream.co is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuWebsite

Ways to reach Better Than Cream directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-20. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Rue du Caire 47

Prices: 9 prices on the site, the middle one €350

Cette page en français

Nearby, also direct

Places near Better Than Cream 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 Better Than Cream's website. It can read what Better Than Cream offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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.

The footer says © 2022.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Paris, 67% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is. In Paris, 19% of comparable sites declare one.

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9 prices on the landing page, the middle one €350.

In Paris, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is €56.00.

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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.

Where it stands

How Better Than Cream compares

Where it stands

351 of 1,511 in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Barber Ink B, Belmary B. Just below: Bobbi Brown B, Borie Beauté B.

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 HTML76%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours17%no
Have an llms.txt59%yes

The top 10% are the 153 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 7,656 sites48%26%72.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Othmane Masse119 mByes
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Nails 87136 mByes
Asie Nails153 mFno
Nuru spa156 mCyes
Voulez Coiffure Paris165 mDno
Loulouliss - Expert Lissage Paris173 mCno
Maison glory173 mCyes
Les vernis parisiens177 mCyes
Le Chemin des Paumes | Paris202 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Better Than Cream in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons1,51153%27%72.3%
Sites built with Shopify in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons10261%43%72.3%

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons

Steph Kerato Paris - SHK A 95.4% · Anne Semonin A 90.8% · Studio Fauve A 90.8% · Myriam K Paris A 87.7% · Bijo A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 2nd of 1,511 in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 351st.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Paris hairdressers and beauty salons. 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.
  • Price list of services with prices on the page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Appointments on your own site Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace.

Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare · contact page /pages/contact: nothing new; booking page /pages/prise-de-rdv: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on shopify.

Where to paste it on Shopify: Online Store, then the three-dot menu on the theme, then Edit code; paste it in the theme's layout file, inside the head. the official help page.

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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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BeautySalon",
  "name": "Better Than Cream",
  "url": "http://betterthancream.co/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Rue du Caire 47"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 48.8678905,
    "longitude": 2.3490393
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.betterthancream.co/pages/prise-de-rdv",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Better Than Cream

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/betterthancream.co, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/paris-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.betterthancream.co/pages/prise-de-rdv own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-20, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.betterthancream.co/ html_inlinefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/betterthancream.co/book, /go/betterthancream.co/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
yes
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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
JSON-LD for the businessno