The Direct Index
Report · Manchester · scanned 2026-10-21

Sweet Mandarin

glutenfreechinese.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Sweet Mandarin directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

Copperas Street 19 M4 1HS Manchester · 07703412002

Its menu mentions: vegan options

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Sweet Mandarin that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Sweet Mandarin's website. It can read what Sweet Mandarin offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through sweetmandarin.etakeawaymax.co.uk.

54.9%

35.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 90 places. Sweet Mandarin wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Sweet Mandarin compares

Where it stands

1,357 of 2,391 in Manchester

Top 57% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Grilleville Express D, Railway Grill D. Just below: Caker Street D, 19 Cafe Bar D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt28%yes

The top 10% are the 245 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 3,331 sites36%9%54.9%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Blue Eyed Panda chinese495 mByes
Glamorous Chinese Restaurant chinese573 mByes
Little Yang Sing chinese672 mCno
Hunan chinese687 mCyes
Aplus Oriental Restaurant chinese701 mBno
Aplus BBQ and Hot Pot chinese703 mAyes
Mei Sum chinese716 mCyes
Only Yu Manchester - Oriental Cuisine chinese724 mBno
Pekan Cina Manchester chinese732 mByes
China Buffet chinese762 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Sweet Mandarin in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,39155%32%54.9%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Manchester2930%3%54.9%

The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Manchester

Wallgate Chippy B 72.3% · Sarma Marple C 68.8% · Cure Bistro C 61.5% · Istanblue C 60% · Siam Smiles Thai Restaurant & Takeaway C 58.5%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 43rd of 2,391 in Manchester, up from 1357th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as GPTBot (connection_dropped:TimeoutError) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: godaddy · Front: cloudflare · contact page /opening-hours-and-map: nothing new; menu page /menus: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on godaddy.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Sweet Mandarin",
  "url": "https://glutenfreechinese.com/",
  "telephone": "07703412002",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Copperas Street 19",
    "postalCode": "M4 1HS",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.4848012,
    "longitude": -2.2363427
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "chinese"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://glutenfreechinese.com/menus"
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Sweet Mandarin

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/glutenfreechinese.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuglutenfreechinese.com/menus html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone07703412002

Stable links that count: /go/glutenfreechinese.com/menu 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
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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtyes
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