# Hemingford Arms: Agent-Direct Score F (26.2%)

Site: https://www.hemingfordarms.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hemingfordarms.com
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Hemingford Arms is largely invisible to agents.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 20 7607 3303

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (challenge:access denied); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No booking or ordering path at all.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (BarOrPub).** address, phone, opening hours

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then)
- Fixed: The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No llms.txt
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away

## Where it stands
1939 of 2491 in London cafes and bars. Top 78% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth 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 | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 97% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 12% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Soto Coffee (F, 330 m, https://directindex.org/r/sotocoffee.co.uk); The Drapers Arms (C, 424 m, https://directindex.org/r/thedrapersarms.com); The Albion (B, 480 m, https://directindex.org/r/the-albion.co.uk); Islington Blend (F, 601 m, https://directindex.org/r/expireddomains.com); The Foxglove (B, 604 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefoxglove.co.uk); The Regent (B, 617 m, https://directindex.org/r/theregentpub.com); The Crown (A, 681 m, https://directindex.org/r/crownislington.co.uk); Urban Social Coffee (D, 685 m, https://directindex.org/r/urbansocialcoffee.co.uk); Two Tribes Brewery (D, 688 m, https://directindex.org/r/twotribes.co.uk); The Barn (C, 764 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebarnlondon.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 49%, 2026-10-15 26%.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 26.2%.

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

Read by AI agents 1 times this month.

## Businesses like Hemingford Arms in London cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in London cafes and bars | 2491 | 52% | 37% | 26.2% |
| Built with WordPress in London cafes and bars | 755 | 65% | 46% | 26.2% |

The best of Built with WordPress in London cafes and bars: Bar Américain (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/brasseriezedel.com); The Alexandra (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alexandrawimbledon.com); The Cherry Tree (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/thecherrytreedulwich.co.uk); The Loft (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alexandrawimbledon.com); The Roundhouse (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/theroundhousewandsworth.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No booking or ordering path at all; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 95.4%: 20th of 2,491 in London cafes and bars, up from 1939th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hemingford Arms, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hemingfordarms.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-23:00; Su 12:00-22:30 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 20 7607 3303

## 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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got challenge:access denied); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/hemingfordarms.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=hemingfordarms.com&force=1