The Cotton Ball
cottonball.ie could not be reached by the scanner (http 403). Some hosts refuse requests from Cloudflare's network; the finding below says what we saw, and a rescan is free.
0 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level
thing to fix
Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- The site could not be read at all
The server refuses the request outright, which usually means a firewall rule aimed at bots.
No one is listed yet to fix this in Cork cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
How The Cotton Ball compares
78 of 79 in Cork cafes and bars
Top 99% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Black Swan Cafe F, The Cinnamon Cottage F. Just below: The Leaping Salmon F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 80% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 70% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 20% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 10% | no |
The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox and Hounds | 1.0 km | F | no |
| Cortado Coffee | 1.4 km | C | no |
| Cork Coffee Roasters coffee_shop | 1.9 km | F | no |
| Vienna Woods Hotel | 2.1 km | C | yes |
| Goldberg’s | 2.6 km | D | yes |
| The Castle Cafe | 2.6 km | C | yes |
| Brú Bar & Hostel | 2.6 km | B | yes |
| Red Bean Roastery Café coffee_shop | 2.7 km | F | no |
| The Shelbourne Bar | 2.8 km | B | no |
| Priory Coffee Co. coffee_shop | 2.8 km | F | no |
Businesses like The Cotton Ball in Cork cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Cork cafes and bars | 79 | 52% | 18% | 0% |
The best of Same kind in Cork cafes and bars
Comix A 100% · Butter Bubble A 91.3% · On The Pig's Back A 88.8% · Fitzgerald’s Bar B 81.5% · John Readen & Son B 81.3%
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
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.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cottonball.ie"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/cottonball.ie.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for The Cotton Ball
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-14 found no booking or ordering link on cottonball.ie or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/cottonball.ie, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/cork-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +353 21 4503096 |
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Not measured
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. Cloudflare's report.
| JSON-LD for the business | no |