# Canton Element: Agent-Direct Score D (46.2%) Site: http://www.cantonelement.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/cantonelement.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Canton Element is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Canton Element's website. It can read what Canton Element offers. To book or order, it is sent to Quandoo, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: http://cantonelement.co.uk/canton-menu/ - Phone: +442072421515 - Address: 48 Red Lion St, WC1R 4PF, London ## Nearby, also direct Places near Canton Element that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - HUS London (320 m): https://directindex.org/r/huslondon.co.uk - Master Wei Xi'An (380 m): https://directindex.org/r/master-wei.com - Shanghai Family (640 m): https://directindex.org/r/shanghaifamily.co.uk - Dim Sum Library (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/dimsumlibrary.co.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking only through quandoo.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Quandoo's terms ban bots and automated use, but a direct form on your own site has no such limit.** (+12 points) Quandoo's end-user terms (London, May 2018, section 3.3.1) bar robots, spiders, scrapers or any other automated means of access to the website for any purpose; the operator, Quandoo UK Limited, is in members' voluntary liquidation and the German company is in liquidation too. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.quandoo.co.uk/terms-conditions. An agent that books or orders there goes against the vendor's terms unless the vendor allows it. A form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Canton Element > local business (chinese) in 48 Red Lion St, WC1R 4PF, London, London. Phone +442072421515. ## Book or order directly - Menu: http://cantonelement.co.uk/canton-menu/ ## About - Website: http://www.cantonelement.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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. ## Where it stands 5735 of 8985 in London. Top 64% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 87% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 37% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: 1+1 Rougamo (D, 73 m, https://directindex.org/r/rougamo.co.uk); HUS London (B, 315 m, https://directindex.org/r/huslondon.co.uk); Fortune Foods UK (F, 333 m, https://directindex.org/r/fortunefoods.co.uk); Master Wei Xi'An (B, 383 m, https://directindex.org/r/master-wei.com); Shoo Loong Kan Hotpot London (F, 534 m, https://directindex.org/r/shooloongkanuk.co.uk); Shanghai Family (D, 643 m, https://directindex.org/r/shanghaifamily.co.uk); Liangji Rolls (F, 652 m, https://directindex.org/r/liangji.co.uk); Wong's Duck (F, 826 m, https://directindex.org/r/wongsduck.co.uk); Crown & Pepper Farringdon (F, 998 m, https://directindex.org/r/crownandpepper.co.uk); Dim Sum Library (C, 1051 m, https://directindex.org/r/dimsumlibrary.co.uk). ## What assistants answer 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 13 everyday questions about London and named 66 places. Canton Element wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236087 sites); Sites using Quandoo 62% (30% A or B, 502 sites); This site 46.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/cantonelement.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Canton Element in London | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in London | 8985 | 54% | 36% | 46.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in London | 2671 | 66% | 48% | 46.2% | | Sites using Quandoo in London | 26 | 63% | 42% | 46.2% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Quandoo in London | 13 | 64% | 54% | 46.2% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Quandoo in London: Primavera Restaurant (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/primaverafulham.co.uk); Lievito South Kensington (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/pizzerialievito.com); Pittagoras (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/pittagoras.co.uk); Ambience (B 75.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ambiencerestaurant.co.uk); The Latchmere (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/thelatchmere.co.uk). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through quandoo; Quandoo's terms ban bots and automated use, but a direct form on your own site has no such limit), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 8,985 in London. ## The direct record What agents get for Canton Element, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cantonelement.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: http://cantonelement.co.uk/canton-menu/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +442072421515 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/cantonelement.co.uk/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 - Vendor terms for agents, Quandoo: No. Quandoo's end-user terms (London, May 2018, section 3.3.1) bar robots, spiders, scrapers or any other automated means of access to the website for any purpose; the operator, Quandoo UK Limited, is in members' voluntary liquidation and the German company is in liquidation too. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.quandoo.co.uk/terms-conditions Found one hop past the home page: contact page /about-us/: booking via quandoo. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 20 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/cantonelement.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/cantonelement.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/cantonelement.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=cantonelement.co.uk&force=1