# Byward Market Building: Agent-Direct Score D (46.2%)

Site: https://www.bywardmarketsquare.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/bywardmarketsquare.com
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Byward Market Building is hard for agents to use.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Byward Market Building. It can read what Byward Market Building offers. It finds no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://bywardmarketsquare.com/

## What to fix first
- **No ticket link on the website.** (+15 points) Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a ticket or booking page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "TouristAttraction",
  "name": "Byward Market Building",
  "url": "https://www.bywardmarketsquare.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "ByWard Market Square 55",
    "addressLocality": "Ottawa"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.4276574,
    "longitude": -75.6923883
  }
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours
- **Tickets and prices with prices on the page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
22 of 40 in Ottawa tours, attractions and museums. Top 55% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 80% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 10% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: W.E. TRAVEL (C, 140 m, https://directindex.org/r/weuniontravel.ca); Royal Canadian Mint (C, 679 m, https://directindex.org/r/mint.ca); Parliament: The Immersive Experience (F, 975 m, https://directindex.org/r/parl.ca); Bank of Canada Museum (C, 1019 m, https://directindex.org/r/bankofcanadamuseum.ca); Musée canadien de l'histoire (B, 1304 m, https://directindex.org/r/museedelhistoire.ca); Canadian Museum of Nature (C, 1694 m, https://directindex.org/r/nature.ca); Canadian War Museum (C, 2277 m, https://directindex.org/r/warmuseum.ca); MidEarth Travel (F, 2963 m, https://directindex.org/r/midearth.ca); Vanier Museopark (B, 3117 m, https://directindex.org/r/museoparc.ca); RCMP Musical Ride Stables (C, 4418 m, https://directindex.org/r/rcmp.ca).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/bywardmarketsquare.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Byward Market Building in Ottawa tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa tours, attractions and museums | 40 | 46% | 8% | 46.2% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Ottawa tours, attractions and museums: Maritime Travel (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/maritimetravel.ca); Vanier Museopark (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/museoparc.ca); Musée canadien de l'histoire (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/museedelhistoire.ca); Canadian Museum of Nature (C 68.8%, https://directindex.org/r/nature.ca); Valleyview Little Animal Farm (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/valleyviewlittleanimalfarm.com).

With the three fixes above (No ticket link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 40 in Ottawa tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Byward Market Building, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/bywardmarketsquare.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://bywardmarketsquare.com/ (html_inline; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/bywardmarketsquare.com/menu

## 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 | 15 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 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/bywardmarketsquare.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: yes
- 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/bywardmarketsquare.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/bywardmarketsquare.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=bywardmarketsquare.com&force=1