Cafe Sparrow
cafesparrow.co.za is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Ways to reach Cafe Sparrow directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-04. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mo-Th 06:30-16:00, Fr 06:30-17:00, Sa 08:00-17:00, Su 08:00-16:00
+27 71 147 6922
Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)
WhatsApp: a link on the site
Places near Cafe Sparrow that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Woolworths2.6 km · coffee shop
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Cafe Sparrow's website. What Cafe Sparrow offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.
40 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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.
How Cafe Sparrow compares
4 of 16 in Durban cafes and bars
Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Unity C, Bootlegger Coffee Company C. Just below: Tall Ships C, Coffee Cats Café C.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 40% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 30% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 80% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 40% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 33,756 sites | 61% | 41% | 61.5% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woolworths coffee_shop, breakfast, burger | 2.6 km | D | yes |
Businesses like Cafe Sparrow in Durban cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Durban cafes and bars | 16 | 44% | 6% | 61.5% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Durban cafes and bars | 1 | 62% | 0% | 61.5% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 16 in Durban cafes and bars.
What to fix first
- No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points
There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Durban cafes and bars. 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 (LocalBusiness) no address, phone or hours in it
Builder: squarespace · What to paste
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