# The Cotton Ball: Agent-Direct Score F (0%)

Site: https://www.cottonball.ie
Report: https://directindex.org/r/cottonball.ie
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Cotton Ball's website could not be reached by the scanner on 2026-10-14 (http 403). Rescans are free.
AI assistants cannot open the website of The Cotton Ball, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Phone: +353 21 4503096

## 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.

## Already right
- Nothing.

## Where it stands
71 of 72 in Cork cafes and bars. Top 99% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 70% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 80% | 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 |

Nearest places in the index: Fox and Hounds (F, 1009 m, https://directindex.org/r/foxandhounds.ie); Cortado Coffee (C, 1393 m, https://directindex.org/r/cortado.ie); Cork Coffee Roasters (F, 1931 m, https://directindex.org/r/corkcoffeeroasters.ie); Vienna Woods Hotel (C, 2086 m, https://directindex.org/r/viennawoodshotel.com); Goldberg’s (D, 2553 m, https://directindex.org/r/goldbergs.ie); The Castle Cafe (C, 2583 m, https://directindex.org/r/castlecafe.ie); Brú Bar & Hostel (B, 2620 m, https://directindex.org/r/bruhostel.com); Red Bean Roastery Café (F, 2748 m, https://directindex.org/r/redbeanroastery.com); The Shelbourne Bar (B, 2773 m, https://directindex.org/r/theshelbournecork.ie); Gallagher’s Gastropub (B, 2850 m, https://directindex.org/r/gallagherscork.ie).

## What assistants answer
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.

## Businesses like The Cotton Ball in Cork cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Cork cafes and bars | 72 | 51% | 18% | 0% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Cork cafes and bars: Comix (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/comix.ie); Butter Bubble (A 91.3%, https://directindex.org/r/butterbubble.ie); On The Pig's Back (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/onthepigsback.ie); John Readen & Son (B 81.3%, https://directindex.org/r/reardens.com); Franciscan Well Brew Pub (B 78.8%, https://directindex.org/r/franwellbar.com).

## The direct record
What agents get for The Cotton Ball, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cottonball.ie
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +353 21 4503096

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 30 |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/cottonball.ie/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/cottonball.ie/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=cottonball.ie&force=1