Houghton Arms
houghtonarmsfailsworth.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach Houghton Arms directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
Oldham Road 708 M35 9FD Manchester · 0161 6814284
Places near Houghton Arms that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- New Moston Inn740 m
- The Millgate1.2 km
- Woodhouse Gardens1.6 km
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open Houghton Arms's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.
49 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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 12 everyday questions about Manchester cafes and bars and named 52 places. Houghton Arms wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How Houghton Arms compares
193 of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars
Top 15% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Grove Inn B, Hare and Hounds Inn B. Just below: Kosmonaut B, Mabrouk Lounge Manchester B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 86% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 236,086 sites | 55% | 25% | 75.4% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatsheaf Inn | 113 m | F | no |
| Vindaloo | 310 m | F | no |
| Majestic Coffee Limited | 623 m | C | no |
| New Moston Inn | 735 m | B | yes |
| Jubilee | 1.1 km | F | no |
| The Bricklayers Arms | 1.2 km | D | no |
| The Millgate | 1.2 km | B | yes |
| The Mowbray Arms | 1.2 km | D | no |
| Boat and Horses Pub | 1.5 km | C | no |
| Woodhouse Gardens | 1.6 km | B | yes |
Businesses like Houghton Arms in Manchester cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars | 1,309 | 49% | 24% | 75.4% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Manchester cafes and bars | 426 | 60% | 35% | 75.4% |
After the top fixes
With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 193rd.
What to fix first
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- 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. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
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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 (LocalBusiness) no address, phone or hours in it
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.
Builder: wordpress · contact page /our-pub: nothing new; booking page /order-pay: nothing new · What to paste
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