The Direct Index
Report · New York hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-14

Excellence Barber Shop

excellencenyc.com is mostly ready for agents.

Book directly: www.excellencenyc.com/appointments on the business's own site · Order directly: app.squareup.com/appointments/book/beujnjeo8gqwry/LSPVC47BE9 through square acting for the business

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 74% → 74%

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B
73.8%

48 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.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14: no change in the findings.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. No price list of services found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page with services and prices as text and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  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 New York hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · 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 squarespace is in the guides.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Excellence Barber Shop",
  "url": "https://excellencenyc.com",
  "telephone": "+1-212-597-2743",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Broadway 2487",
    "postalCode": "10025",
    "addressLocality": "New York",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7925091,
    "longitude": -73.973736
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 09:00-20:00; Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 10:00-18:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.excellencenyc.com/appointments",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://app.squareup.com/appointments/book/beujnjeo8gqwry/LSPVC47BE9A8M/start",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Excellence Barber Shop

> hair salon in Broadway 2487 10025 New York, New York hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-212-597-2743.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.excellencenyc.com/appointments (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://app.squareup.com/appointments/book/beujnjeo8gqwry/LSPVC47BE9A8M/start (through square acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 09:00-20:00; Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 10:00-18:00

## About

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

How Excellence Barber Shop compares

Where it stands

68 of 575 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Amy Kendall Brow + Lash B, Dyanna Spa B. Just below: Green Spa & Wellness Center B, Inwood Hair Studio B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML32%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours17%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top tenth is the 59 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,098 sites65%48%73.8%
Sites using Square 793 sites69%47%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
New York Sun Club80 mCno
Dramatics NYC92 mCyes
Renewing Spa II185 mByes
Salon West242 mCyes
Topman Barber Shop435 mDyes
Melt Feathers Spa545 mCyes
Masa-Kanai564 mDno
Beau Eyelash Studio586 mByes
Salon Above630 mCyes
Tresses Belle Studio735 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Excellence Barber Shop in New York hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York hairdressers and beauty salons57541%17%73.8%
Built with Squarespace in New York hairdressers and beauty salons9665%35%73.8%
Using Square in New York hairdressers and beauty salons2866%36%73.8%
Built with Squarespace and using Square in New York hairdressers and beauty salons971%56%73.8%

The best of Built with Squarespace and using Square in New York hairdressers and beauty salons

Capulet's Salon B 75.4% · Earth + Sky B 75.4% · Keycuts Barbershop B 75.4% · Pearlita B 73.8% · Mildred C 67.7%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 575 in New York hairdressers and beauty salons.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

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.

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.

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.
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Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/excellencenyc.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/excellencenyc.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

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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The direct record

What agents get for Excellence Barber Shop

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/excellencenyc.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.excellencenyc.com/appointments own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Orderapp.squareup.com/appointments/book/beujnjeo8gqwry/LSPVC47BE9 vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Fr 09:00-20:00; Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 10:00-18:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-212-597-2743

Stable links that count: /go/excellencenyc.com/book, /go/excellencenyc.com/order 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.

Transactable

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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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. Cloudflare's report.

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 businessyes