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

Hotel Erker Hof

erkerhof.de is hard for agents to use.

Menu: www.erkerhof.de/de/home/resources/pdf/speisekarte.pdf

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D
44.6%

29 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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 +15 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 for a restaurant. It is the one block every assistant reads first. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering path at all +15 points

    Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  3. Menu is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish the menu as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  4. 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 Cologne. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Hotel Erker Hof",
  "url": "https://www.erkerhof.de/",
  "telephone": "+49 2203 911870",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Kölner Straße 53",
    "postalCode": "51149",
    "addressLocality": "Köln",
    "addressCountry": "DE"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 50.8962332,
    "longitude": 7.0425481
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 17:00-24:00, Su,PH 11:00-15:00",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.erkerhof.de/de/home/resources/pdf/speisekarte.pdf"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Hotel Erker Hof

> restaurant in Kölner Straße 53 51149 Köln, Cologne. Phone +49 2203 911870.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.erkerhof.de/de/home/resources/pdf/speisekarte.pdf

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 17:00-24:00, Su,PH 11:00-15:00

## About

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

612 of 1,109 in Cologne

Top 55% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Haus Heckenberg D, Hawan Chinarestaurant D. Just below: La Tasca D, Lord of the Grillz D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain88%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML82%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours48%no
Have an llms.txt24%no

The top tenth is the 113 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

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Restaurant Zündorf regional1.3 kmByes
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Kaiserpalast chinese, mongolian_grill1.6 kmFno
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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.txtyes
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 D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/erkerhof.de"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/erkerhof.de.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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