Cardinal
cardinal.scot is ready for agents.
57 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
thing to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- Menu is a PDF
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish the menu as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Edinburgh. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Booking through sevenrooms on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare
39 of 524 in Edinburgh
Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Rendezvous A, Angels with Bagpipes A. Just below: Urban Angel A, ASK Italian A.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 78% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | yes |
The top tenth is the 54 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxford Burgers burger | 164 m | D | no |
| The Tollhouse | 213 m | C | yes |
| Eastern Spices indian | 248 m | C | yes |
| Kweilin Cantonese Restaurant cantonese | 448 m | C | yes |
| Novapizza italian, pizza | 494 m | B | no |
| New Town Fox | 514 m | B | yes |
| Avery fine_dining | 535 m | F | no |
| Pantry regional | 540 m | C | no |
| Purslane | 546 m | C | yes |
| Dublin Street Social | 553 m | B | yes |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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.
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Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.