The Direct Index
Report · New York hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-23

Amber Qa Testing

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OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Amber Qa Testing directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

257 Park Ave S, 10010, New York · (212) 924-6800

Prices: 17 prices on the site, the middle one $55.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Amber Qa Testing that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Amber Qa Testing's website. It can read what Amber Qa Testing offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

71.2%

46.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

17 prices on the landing page, the middle one $55.00.

In New York, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $79.00.

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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 Amber Qa Testing compares

Where it stands

913 of 5,003 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 18% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Park Avenue Skin Care B, Sassoon Salon North America B. Just below: Gissy Salon Suites & Groom LLC B, AVAMedicaSpa - EMSCULPT Expert Center B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain95%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML20%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours18%no
Have an llms.txt48%no

The top 10% are the 507 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%71.2%

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NYC Rejuvenation Clinic175 mDno
O'Live Organic Spa179 mFno
Kallidora Skin Care180 mDyes
SkinShine181 mCyes
little space salon182 mCyes
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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Amber Qa Testing in New York hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in New York hairdressers and beauty salons5,00348%19%71.2%
Sites built with WordPress in New York hairdressers and beauty salons1,22557%24%71.2%

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Beauty and Essex: 146 Essex Street A 95.4% · Elke Von Freudenberg . Celebrity Eyebrow Specialist A 95.4% · Eviaesthetics A 95.4% · SkinLab-NYC Upper East Side A 93.8% · Georgia Louise Atelier A 90.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 5,003 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User +8.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  3. 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 York hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Person) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Price list of services is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /culture/entertainment/you-can-see-everything-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-review-theranos/: nothing new; menu page /culture/entertainment/netflix-has-hundreds-of-secret-genre-categories-heres-how-to-get-into-all-of-them/: nothing new; booking page /health/nutrition/best-meal-kit-delivery-service/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "Amber Qa Testing",
  "url": "http://www.cnet.com",
  "telephone": "(212) 924-6800",
  "address": "257 Park Ave S, 10010, New York",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.73850131427017,
    "longitude": -73.98715793989757
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.cnet.com/health/nutrition/best-meal-kit-delivery-service/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Amber Qa Testing

> person in 257 Park Ave S, 10010, New York, New York hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone (212) 924-6800.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.cnet.com/health/nutrition/best-meal-kit-delivery-service/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/netflix-has-hundreds-of-secret-genre-categories-heres-how-to-get-into-all-of-them/

## About

- Website: http://www.cnet.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cnet.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/cnet.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Amber Qa Testing

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/cnet.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.cnet.com/health/nutrition/best-meal-kit-delivery-service own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Menuwww.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/netflix-has-hundreds-of-s html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone(212) 924-6800

Stable links that count: /go/cnet.com/order, /go/cnet.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes