# Gate Dental Clinic: Agent-Direct Score B (81.5%)

Site: https://www.smiles.ie/gate-dental-clinic-dentist-galway/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/gateclinic.com
Scanned: 2026-11-14 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Gate Dental Clinic is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Gate Dental Clinic's website. It can read what Gate Dental Clinic offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through dental.smiles.ie.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.gateclinic.com/ways-to-pay/price-list/
- Phone: +353 91 547 592
- Address: Dock Road 25 Galway
- Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Fri 08:30–17:00; Sat–Sun closed

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Gate Dental Clinic that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Galway Bay Medical Centre (20 m): https://directindex.org/r/galwaybaymedicalcentre.ie
- Hidden Hearing Galway (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/hiddenhearing.ie

## What to fix first
- **Appointments through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **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

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

```
# Gate Dental Clinic

> dentist in Dock Road 25 Galway, Galway dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +353 91 547 592.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.gateclinic.com/ways-to-pay/price-list/

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 08:30-17:00

## About

- Website: https://www.smiles.ie/gate-dental-clinic-dentist-galway/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (Dentist).** address, phone, opening hours
- **List of services and prices is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.

## Where it stands
10 of 91 in Galway dentists, clinics and vets. Top 11% 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 | 90% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 90% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 70% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 30% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Galway Bay Medical Centre (C, 15 m, https://directindex.org/r/galwaybaymedicalcentre.ie); Galway Bay Physio (B, 54 m, https://directindex.org/r/galwaybayphysio.ie); The CBD Store (C, 102 m, https://directindex.org/r/thecbdstore.ie); Whitehall Medical Centre (F, 107 m, https://directindex.org/r/whitehallmedical.ie); Hidden Hearing Galway (A, 140 m, https://directindex.org/r/hiddenhearing.ie); Sexual Health West (C, 142 m, https://directindex.org/r/sexualhealthwest.ie); Eyre Square Dental (D, 143 m, https://directindex.org/r/eyresquaredental.ie); Joe Nolan Dental (F, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/dentistgalway.com); Atlantis Dental Laboratory (C, 183 m, https://directindex.org/r/atlantisdentallab.com); Optilase Clinic Galway (C, 203 m, https://directindex.org/r/optilase.com).

## 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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Galway dentists, clinics and vets and named 50 places. Gate Dental Clinic wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/galway-clinics/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 270003 sites); This site 81.5%.

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

## Businesses like Gate Dental Clinic in Galway dentists, clinics and vets

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Galway dentists, clinics and vets | 91 | 56% | 27% | 81.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Galway dentists, clinics and vets | 54 | 57% | 26% | 81.5% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Galway dentists, clinics and vets: 3Dental Galway (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/3dental.ie); Flood Street Physiotherapy (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/floodstreetphysio.ie); Cross Street Dental (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/crossstreetdental.ie); Baily Point Physiotherapy (B 81.1%, https://directindex.org/r/galwayphysio.ie); Forster Court Dental (B 81.1%, https://directindex.org/r/forstercourtdental.ie).

With the fix above (Appointments through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 91 in Galway dentists, clinics and vets.

## The direct record
What agents get for Gate Dental Clinic, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/gateclinic.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.gateclinic.com/ways-to-pay/price-list/ (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Fr 08:30-17:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +353 91 547 592
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/gateclinic.com/menu

## 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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /ways-to-pay/price-list/: 46 prices.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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/gateclinic.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: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/gateclinic.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/gateclinic.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=gateclinic.com&force=1