The Direct Index
Report · New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage · scanned 2026-11-13

Cicada Salon

cicadasalon.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Cicada Salon directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake

1530 Magazine St, New Orleans 70130-4724 · +15042748879

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cicada Salon 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 Cicada Salon's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through cicada.glossgenius.com.

60%

39 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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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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.

Where it stands

How Cicada Salon compares

Where it stands

139 of 337 in New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage

Top 41% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Rooster Club C, Planet Beach French Quarter C. Just below: Kneaded Relief Massage Therapy C, Magazine Massage Spa C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain86%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML66%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours29%no
Have an llms.txt49%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 36,138 sites61%41%60%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Hinge Salon34 mCno
Mariposa Salon & Spa95 mFno
Hairology241 mDno
Guillotine Salon246 mFyes
Goodface249 mDno
Freedom Apothecary280 mBno
Stardust Salon and Day Spa288 mCyes
Ardent Studio347 mFno
Spyre Center411 mCno
Petal Salon420 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cicada Salon in New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage33751%28%60%
Sites built with Squarespace in New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage4169%49%60%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (Appointments through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 337 in New Orleans hairdressers, beauty salons and massage.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Appointments through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. No price list of services found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  4. 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 hairdressers, beauty salons and massage. 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

Owners

Own this business?

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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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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