Ellen's
ellens.com is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Ellen's. It can read what Ellen's offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Book directly: ellens.com/reservations on the business's own site · Order directly: ellens.com/locations/#locations on the business's own site · Menu: ellens.com/menu
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62 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
thing to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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.
How Ellen's compares
35 of 706 in Dallas
Top 5% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: DL Mack's A, Dante's Pizza & Pasta Italian Eatery A. Just below: Gemma A, Intrinsic Smokehouse and Brewery A.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 27% | no |
The top tenth is the 71 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 38,935 sites | 59% | 31% | 95.4% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Más Street Tacos mexican | 92 m | C | yes |
| Moak's Family Texas BBQ barbecue | 168 m | D | yes |
| The Operators Club american, coffee_shop | 209 m | C | yes |
| Shivas Bar & Grill indian | 326 m | C | yes |
| House of Blues american | 364 m | D | no |
| Chef Wang chinese | 476 m | F | no |
| Commissary coffee_shop, sandwich, american, ice_cream, bakery | 635 m | C | yes |
| SushiYa sushi, japanese, asian | 642 m | A | yes |
| Twisted Trompo mexican | 644 m | B | yes |
| Right Slice Pizza pizza | 683 m | C | yes |
Businesses like Ellen's in Dallas
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Dallas | 706 | 59% | 44% | 95.4% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Dallas | 178 | 71% | 59% | 95.4% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress in Dallas
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Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Dallas. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /menu: ordering link (other); booking page /reservations: nothing new
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.
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llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Ellen's > restaurant (brunch, breakfast) in North Record Street 1790 75202 Dallas, Dallas. Phone +14692063339. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://ellens.com/reservations (on the business's own site) - Order: https://ellens.com/locations/#locations (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://ellens.com/menu ## Opening hours Mo-Su 07:00-15:00 ## About - Website: https://ellens.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR 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 embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/ellens.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/ellens.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Ellen's
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/ellens.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/dallas/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | ellens.com/reservations own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested |
| Order | ellens.com/locations/#locations own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested |
| Menu | ellens.com/menu html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Su 07:00-15:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +14692063339 |
Stable links that count: /go/ellens.com/book, /go/ellens.com/order, /go/ellens.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 |
Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu: ordering link (other).
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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 |