The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-18

Cracklebae

cracklebae.com.au is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

Website

Ways to reach Cracklebae directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Report a mistake

50 Lonsdale St, 3000, Melbourne

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Cracklebae'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 cracklebae.lifeintouch.net.

31.7%

20.6 of 65 points available

2/5

agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware

6

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 Cracklebae compares

Where it stands

2,476 of 3,067 in Melbourne cafes and bars

Top 81% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Store F, Tiamo F. Just below: 20 Young Street Cafe and Catering F, Alleycat Cafe F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours28%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top 10% are the 311 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Madame Brussels Lane31 mDno
Little Lon Distilling Company44 mFyes
Kenny's Bakery & Cafe84 mDno
Anda95 mByes
Bobby's Coffee & Bagels coffee_shop, bagel100 mFno
Circl106 mByes
Barista Cafe121 mFno
Coopers Inn139 mCno
Little Gordon153 mCno
M Bar at Melbourne Marriott Hotel168 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cracklebae in Melbourne cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne cafes and bars3,06754%31%31.7%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Melbourne cafes and bars

1947 A 100% · 57 Cafe Bar Restaurant A 100% · Bar Jayda A 100% · Bincho Boss A 100% · Black Drop Espresso and Wine A 100%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 79.4%. That would be 526th of 3,067 in Melbourne cafes and bars, up from 2476th.

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. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

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

  3. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  4. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  5. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 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

  6. 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 Melbourne cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 your builder.

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Cracklebae",
  "url": "https://cracklebae.com.au/",
  "address": "50 Lonsdale St, 3000, Melbourne",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.80925,
    "longitude": 144.97106
  }
}
</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.

# Cracklebae

> local business in 50 Lonsdale St, 3000, Melbourne, Melbourne cafes and bars.

## About

- Website: https://cracklebae.com.au/
- 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 F

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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 Cracklebae

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-18 found no booking or ordering link on cracklebae.com.au or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/cracklebae.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

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 2 of 5, Bot-Aware

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.txtyes
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 discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
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 businessno