The Darkroom
darkroom.bar is hard for agents to use.
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Ways to reach The Darkroom directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake
336 St Asaph Street, 8011 Christchurch
Prices: 7 prices on the site, the middle one NZ$20.00
Places near The Darkroom that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Rad Roasting Co80 m
- Coffee Embassy320 m · coffee shop
- C4 Coffee360 m
- Bohemian Bakery500 m
- Thrive Community Cafe540 m
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Darkroom'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 eventfinda.co.nz.
27.3 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware
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.
What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
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.
How The Darkroom compares
207 of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars
Top 76% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Coffee Traders D, Oddfellows D. Just below: The Bangalore Polo Club D, Gre3n Superfood & Juice Bar D.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 18% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 43% | no |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Academy | 38 m | D | no |
| Rad Roasting Co | 83 m | A | yes |
| Bunrunners | 234 m | F | no |
| Coffee Embassy coffee_shop | 323 m | B | yes |
| C4 Coffee | 358 m | D | yes |
| Bohemian Bakery | 503 m | B | yes |
| Unknown Chapter | 523 m | C | no |
| Tiger Baby Bar | 532 m | C | no |
| Thrive Community Cafe | 538 m | B | yes |
| Robbie's Sports Bar and Restaurant - Lichfield Courtyard | 541 m | C | no |
Businesses like The Darkroom in Christchurch cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Christchurch cafes and bars | 272 | 58% | 38% | 42% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Booking through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 82%. That would be 50th of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars, up from 207th.
What to fix first
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points
Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (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
- Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it
- 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
- Structured data is incomplete +5 points
Missing: telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- 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
- 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
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Already right
- Structured data found (BarOrPub) address
Builder: unknown · What to paste
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