# Footsteps Care Homes: Agent-Direct Score F (15.4%)

Site: http://www.footstepscare.com
Report: https://directindex.org/r/footstepscare.com
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Footsteps Care Homes is largely invisible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Footsteps Care Homes's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: 01708 458121
- Address: 515-519 Green Lane, IG3 9RH, Ilford

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Footsteps Care Homes that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Malmin Orthodontic Group Ltd (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/malmin.co.uk
- Animal Ark Vets (340 m): https://directindex.org/r/animalarkvets.co.uk
- Simply Teeth (630 m): https://directindex.org/r/simplyteethessex.co.uk
- Oak Tree Medical Centre (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/oaktreemedicalcentre.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Dentist, MedicalClinic, Physiotherapy or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No online booking link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add an online appointment page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User.** (+10 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **No list of services and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost?' from directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.
- **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Footsteps Care Homes",
  "url": "http://www.footstepscare.com",
  "telephone": "01708 458121",
  "address": "515-519 Green Lane, IG3 9RH, Ilford",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.563056,
    "longitude": 0.108657
  }
}
</script>
```

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

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

```
# Footsteps Care Homes

> local business in 515-519 Green Lane, IG3 9RH, Ilford, London dentists, clinics and vets. Phone 01708 458121.

## About

- Website: http://www.footstepscare.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.

## Where it stands
4427 of 5105 in London dentists, clinics and vets. Top 87% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 8% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 47% | no |

Nearest places in the index: K9 Fertility ClinicsDog Breeding Services - Canine Fertility Clinic & Veterinary Service (D, 96 m, https://directindex.org/r/k9clinics.co.uk); Malmin Orthodontic Group Ltd (C, 199 m, https://directindex.org/r/malmin.co.uk); Goodmayes Dental Practice (F, 253 m, https://directindex.org/r/maxlocks.co.uk); Animal Ark Vets (B, 339 m, https://directindex.org/r/animalarkvets.co.uk); Pearls Dental Centre (F, 342 m, https://directindex.org/r/pearlsdental.com); Simply Teeth (F, 628 m, https://directindex.org/r/simplyteethessex.co.uk); Family Dental Practice (F, 730 m, https://directindex.org/r/fdpractice.com); Seven Kings Health Centre (F, 816 m, https://directindex.org/r/sevenkings.co.uk); HASS Centre (F, 821 m, https://directindex.org/r/hassclinic.com); Oak Tree Medical Centre (C, 873 m, https://directindex.org/r/oaktreemedicalcentre.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/footstepscare.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Footsteps Care Homes in London dentists, clinics and vets

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London dentists, clinics and vets | 5105 | 53% | 28% | 15.4% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in London dentists, clinics and vets: Grosvenor Gardens Healthcare (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/gghealthcare.uk); Mayfair Health (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/mayfairhealth.co.uk); Raynes Park Physio (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/raynespark-physio.co.uk); The Hearing Care Partnership (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/thcp.co.uk); Visage Medispa (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/visagemedispa.co.uk).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No online booking link on the website; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User), the score would be about 76.9%. That would be 490th of 5,105 in London dentists, clinics and vets, up from 4427th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Footsteps Care Homes, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/footstepscare.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: 01708 458121

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 10 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/footstepscare.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/footstepscare.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/footstepscare.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=footstepscare.com&force=1
