The Direct Index
Report · Hong Kong cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

Cotton Lane Cafe

cottonlanecafe.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Cotton Lane Cafe directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon closed · Tue–Sun 09:00–18:30

綿發街 Min Fat Street 14 Happy Valley · +852 26261618

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cotton Lane Cafe that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

AI assistants can't open Cotton Lane Cafe's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

65%

52 of 80 points available

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agent-readiness level

2

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-18: completed, an agent can get as far as the step before confirming. Date, time and party-size controls are on the page, so an agent can get to the confirmation step.

Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2023.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Hong Kong, 65% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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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 Cotton Lane Cafe compares

Where it stands

129 of 701 in Hong Kong cafes and bars

Top 18% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Lounge C, eyebar C. Just below: Aroma Wine Bistro C, HealthWorks C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain93%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML47%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours22%no
Have an llms.txt56%no

The top 10% are the 72 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 19,855 sites52%29%65%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Sinbad Coffee Roasters224 mDno
Twiggy Coffee & Tea Co.226 mFno
LIQUID GOLD 至醇酒庫 - Leighton963 mCyes
靈火咖啡園971 mFno
Brentwood Coffee Roaster984 mDno
Ak's Bar+lounge999 mByes
Club 28999 mDno
熊貓咖啡 Panda Coffee1.0 kmFno
Coffeer1.0 kmFno
Aroma Wine Bistro1.0 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cotton Lane Cafe in Hong Kong cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Hong Kong cafes and bars70144%15%65%
Sites built with Wix in Hong Kong cafes and bars7258%26%65%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Hong Kong cafes and bars

One Small Step A 100% · Brunch Club & Supper A 90.8% · Sugar Factory Cafe A 87.7% · Thirsty Shaker A 87.7% · ThinkWine A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 701 in Hong Kong cafes and bars.

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. The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +3 points

    Missing: opening hours. 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 Hong Kong cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wix · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

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 wix.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. 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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Cotton Lane Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.cottonlanecafe.com/",
  "telephone": "+852 26261618",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "綿發街 Min Fat Street 14",
    "addressLocality": "Happy Valley"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 22.2688639,
    "longitude": 114.1866154
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Su 09:00-18:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "18:30"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "brunch",
    "french",
    "japanese",
    "catering",
    "private events"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.cottonlanecafe.com/reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.cottonlanecafe.com/menus",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.cottonlanecafe.com/reservations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.cottonlanecafe.com/menus",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Cotton Lane Cafe

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/cottonlanecafe.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/hong-kong-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.cottonlanecafe.com/reservations own siteverified direct, 2026-10-18
Orderwww.cottonlanecafe.com/menus own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuwww.cottonlanecafe.com/menus html_pagefrom the scan
HoursTu-Su 09:00-18:30 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+852 26261618

Stable links that count: /go/cottonlanecafe.com/book, /go/cottonlanecafe.com/order, /go/cottonlanecafe.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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

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.

JSON-LD for the businessyes