The Direct Index
Report · New Orleans · scanned 2026-11-13

Broussard’s

broussards.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Broussard’s directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

70112 · 504.581.3866

Nearby, also direct

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

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?" in New Orleans, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in New Orleans and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?Gemini with a link to this site2026-11-13

Every place named in New Orleans, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Broussard’s compares

Where it stands

219 of 827 in New Orleans

Top 26% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Basil Leaf B, Blue Bayou B. Just below: Bésame B, Cafe Degas B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 36,138 sites61%41%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Cafe Conti29 mFno
Crescent City Pizza Works33 mCno
Mambo’s48 mAyes
Oceana Grill61 mAyes
Pier 424 Seafood Market seafood83 mDno
Copper Monkey Bar & Grill bar_and_grill92 mDno
Remoulade106 mCno
Arnaud's113 mByes
Cajun Crawfish House american120 mFno
Le Bayou Restaurant and Oyster Bar seafood124 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Broussard’s in New Orleans

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans82758%38%73.8%
Sites built with Squarespace in New Orleans10771%53%73.8%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 27th of 827 in New Orleans, up from 219th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

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

  2. 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

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 New Orleans. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /reservations: 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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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. Show the details