du method
dumethod.com is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by Overture Maps.
Ways to reach du method directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through vagaro acting for the business. Report a mistake
150 Java St, 11222, New York · +16313092524
Places near du method that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open du method's website. What du method offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Vagaro.
51 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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 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 du method compares
283 of 3,268 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons
Top 9% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Organic Pharmacy B, Vanity Projects B. Just below: Blitz Facial Bar B, Charlotte Tilbury B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 95% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 20% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 99% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 19% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 47% | no |
The top 10% are the 330 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 18,903 sites | 63% | 46% | 78.5% |
| Sites using Vagaro 270 sites | 57% | 24% | 78.5% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nassau Nail Spa | 72 m | F | no |
| Help Your Self | 84 m | B | yes |
| Tomcats Barbershop | 92 m | F | no |
| Refresh Head Spa | 113 m | C | yes |
| Zoe's Beauty | 135 m | F | no |
| Contour Aesthetics | 187 m | C | yes |
| Barber Doc & Co | 187 m | C | yes |
| Hair Greenpoint | 220 m | F | no |
| Freckle | 244 m | F | no |
| Amour Salon NYC (formerly J'adore) | 265 m | C | yes |
Businesses like du method in New York hairdressers and beauty salons
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in New York hairdressers and beauty salons | 3,268 | 48% | 19% | 78.5% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in New York hairdressers and beauty salons | 86 | 65% | 34% | 78.5% |
| Sites using Vagaro in New York hairdressers and beauty salons | 51 | 62% | 35% | 78.5% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using Vagaro in New York hairdressers and beauty salons | 19 | 72% | 63% | 78.5% |
The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Vagaro in New York hairdressers and beauty salons
Penny James Trichology Center A 86.2% · Leda Hair Studio B 84.6% · Soho Bubble Spa B 84.6% · Alea Aesthetics Medical Spa B 83.1% · Andreea Skin Studio B 83.1%
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Price list of services is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 21st of 3,268 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 283rd.
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.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
- Price list of services is a PDF +3 points
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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
- The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data
The site shows 347-413-3044, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +16313092524. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in New York hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone
- Appointments through vagaro on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Vagaro works with agents through its partners Vagaro's user agreement (September 2025), section 3, bars robots, data mining and any software that interacts with the services without prior written consent; Google names Vagaro as an AI Mode agentic booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.vagaro.com/pro/user-agreement. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: squarespace
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 squarespace.
Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "LocalBusiness",
"name": "du method",
"url": "http://www.dumethod.com/",
"telephone": "+16313092524",
"address": "150 Java St, 11222, New York",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 40.73147044,
"longitude": -73.95495493
},
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://www.vagaro.com/Users/BusinessWidget.aspx?enc=MMLjhIwJMcwFQhXLL7ifVDdUWurWENaFg+YNNrGW4bGUJ8/9k/Hfh2V+pn3/32RJacDeA87uYDLrGFW72Nx/vCdWhhs3WLr00vY7NCM8CXuwGTqTiQ2lxAq/91sVnehr4/JEUMdvEutugcnO3p7x874OouEK/+eZUYRBdA0yGk1+IL9PvZO8SK3nhcBwOWOxV60gaiTzFjJsHTZw8wTQZUdpHTVE7mmS2fzqMEXWUzqM47yrwdTJLI8xhmI137AzMyIpA0ruRg0iThPfj+DAqB7S8blyZg7/TjMvLe1jr1oFua0T28fkcUj8Bq95UIZWaZM7oUZZYzH0dDibsNhMbPxQafnDDi0/5yKhmGzoOFCV86II/qeXuN7hR8pMGhotk3TbQ1ErgsSG+J4u7AMGJOd4tsMabWtnLkH3W/igxwhtBijFv+E7BXaYI5ccTamHULSdsktLy23y7cyU0L/KBw==",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
}
]
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# du method > local business in 150 Java St, 11222, New York, New York hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +16313092524. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.vagaro.com/Users/BusinessWidget.aspx?enc=MMLjhIwJMcwFQhXLL7ifVDdUWurWENaFg+YNNrGW4bGUJ8/9k/Hfh2V+pn3/32RJacDeA87uYDLrGFW72Nx/vCdWhhs3WLr00vY7NCM8CXuwGTqTiQ2lxAq/91sVnehr4/JEUMdvEutugcnO3p7x874OouEK/+eZUYRBdA0yGk1+IL9PvZO8SK3nhcBwOWOxV60gaiTzFjJsHTZw8wTQZUdpHTVE7mmS2fzqMEXWUzqM47yrwdTJLI8xhmI137AzMyIpA0ruRg0iThPfj+DAqB7S8blyZg7/TjMvLe1jr1oFua0T28fkcUj8Bq95UIZWaZM7oUZZYzH0dDibsNhMbPxQafnDDi0/5yKhmGzoOFCV86II/qeXuN7hR8pMGhotk3TbQ1ErgsSG+J4u7AMGJOd4tsMabWtnLkH3W/igxwhtBijFv+E7BXaYI5ccTamHULSdsktLy23y7cyU0L/KBw== (through vagaro acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.dumethod.com/s/du-method-menu-booklet-print-2.pdf ## About - Website: http://www.dumethod.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Own this business?
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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/dumethod.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/dumethod.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.
Show the details
What agents get for du method
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/dumethod.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-salons/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.vagaro.com/Users/BusinessWidget.aspx?enc=MMLjhIwJMcwFQhX vendor on own site: Vagaro | found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.dumethod.com/s/du-method-menu-booklet-print-2.pdf pdf | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +16313092524 |
Stable links that count: /go/dumethod.com/book, /go/dumethod.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.
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 |
| Vendor terms for agents Vagaro, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Vagaro's user agreement (September 2025), section 3, bars robots, data mining and any software that interacts with the services without prior written consent; Google names Vagaro as an AI Mode agentic booking partner. Source. About Vagaro · all vendors.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |