The Direct Index
Report · seattle · scanned 2026-10-14

El Taco Loco

eltacolocoballard.com is partly visible to agents.

Menu: eltacolocoballard.com/seattle-ballard-el-taco-loco-food-menu

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C
55.4%

36 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through grubhub +12 points

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. 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

No one is listed yet to fix this in Seattle. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's <head>, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong; add priceRange if you like. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "FastFoodRestaurant",
  "name": "El Taco Loco",
  "url": "https://eltacolocoballard.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-206-376-8563",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Northwest Market Street 2840",
    "postalCode": "98107",
    "addressLocality": "Seattle"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 47.668879,
    "longitude": -122.3949314
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 10:45-20:00; Su 10:30-17:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:45",
      "closes": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:30",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "mexican"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://eltacolocoballard.com/seattle-ballard-el-taco-loco-food-menu"
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# El Taco Loco

> fast food restaurant (mexican) in Northwest Market Street 2840 98107 Seattle, Seattle. Phone +1-206-376-8563.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://eltacolocoballard.com/seattle-ballard-el-taco-loco-food-menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 10:45-20:00; Su 10:30-17:00

## About

- Website: https://eltacolocoballard.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

529 of 1,038 in Seattle

Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Carrello C, Chan Seattle C. Just below: Golden Singha C, Mama Chavez's Tamales C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML98%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours55%no
Have an llms.txt12%no

The top tenth is the 105 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Grubhub 140 sites66%46%55.4%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Taco Time mexican62 mByes
Kitchen Window mexican, seafood, ice_cream593 mByes
La Carta de Oaxaca mexican677 mDno
Matador mexican736 mByes
Gracia mexican876 mAyes
Fuego mexican890 mByes
Lupe’s Situ Tacos mexican924 mDno
Asadero - Ballard steak_house, mexican944 mAyes
El Moose mexican1.0 kmCno
Vacil Salvadoreño Taco Loco mexican, salvadoran1.4 kmFno
Agent readiness

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.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
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
Assistants

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.

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Agent-Direct Score C

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