Exploratorium
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26.3 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
What to fix first
- No way to buy tickets online +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a ticket or booking page on your own domain. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- No tickets and prices found +7 points
Agents answer 'what does it cost and when' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points
Live fetches as ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it
- 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 San Francisco tours, attractions and museums. 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.
- Structured data present (Organization) but without address, phone or hours
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
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. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Museum",
"name": "Exploratorium",
"url": "https://www.exploratorium.edu/",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"addressLocality": "San Francisco"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 37.8008982,
"longitude": -122.3985255
},
"openingHours": "Tu-Su 10:00-17:00; Jun 19 - Sep 4 Mo-Su 10:00-17:00, Fr 10:00-21:00"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Exploratorium > museum in San Francisco, San Francisco tours, attractions and museums. ## Opening hours Tu-Su 10:00-17:00; Jun 19 - Sep 4 Mo-Su 10:00-17:00, Fr 10:00-21:00 ## About - Website: https://www.exploratorium.edu/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
32 of 87 in San Francisco tours, attractions and museums
Top 37% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Walt Disney Family Museum D, Brig Matthew Turner D. Just below: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts F, Cable Car Powerhouse and Barn F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 90% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 10% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 10% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |
The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transamerica Pyramid | 739 m | F | no |
| The Beat Museum | 743 m | D | no |
| San Francisco Ferry Building | 745 m | D | no |
| City Lights Booksellers | 795 m | F | no |
| Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory | 967 m | B | yes |
| Chinese Historical Society of America | 1.2 km | C | yes |
| Cable Car Powerhouse and Barn | 1.4 km | F | no |
| Pier 39 Sea Lions | 1.6 km | F | no |
| Pier 24 | 1.6 km | F | no |
| Museum of the African Diaspora | 1.6 km | F | no |
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 |
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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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/exploratorium.edu"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/exploratorium.edu.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
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