# Hou Wei: Agent-Direct Score B (81.5%)

Site: https://houwei.co.uk
Report: https://directindex.org/r/houwei.co.uk
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.)
Hou Wei is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Hou Wei'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.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://houwei.co.uk/index.php?ac=shop&k=How,Wei,Takeaway,896,Chester,Rd,Manchester,M32,0PA (on the business's own site)
- Phone: 0161 864 2303
- Address: 896 Chester Rd, M32 0PA, Manchester

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Hou Wei that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Silver Palace (780 m): https://directindex.org/r/silverpalace.co.uk
- The Maharajaa (790 m): https://directindex.org/r/themaharajaastretford.com

## 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **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

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

```
# Hou Wei

> restaurant in 896 Chester Rd, M32 0PA, Manchester, Manchester. Phone 0161 864 2303.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://houwei.co.uk/index.php?ac=shop&k=How,Wei,Takeaway,896,Chester,Rd,Manchester,M32,0PA (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: https://houwei.co.uk
- 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 (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

## Where it stands
360 of 2333 in Manchester. Top 15% 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 | 99% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Dixy's Chicken (B, 51 m, https://directindex.org/r/dixychicken.co); Peter Pan (C, 54 m, https://directindex.org/r/peterpanonline.co.uk); Oriental Express (D, 58 m, https://directindex.org/r/orientalstretford.com); Turtley Wok (D, 65 m, https://directindex.org/r/turtley-wok.com); Yeah Man Caribbean (D, 226 m, https://directindex.org/r/yeahmancaribbean.co.uk); Ming Dynasty (F, 331 m, https://directindex.org/r/local-takeout.co.uk); Silver Palace (B, 775 m, https://directindex.org/r/silverpalace.co.uk); The Maharajaa (A, 792 m, https://directindex.org/r/themaharajaastretford.com); The Flamin' Chicken (F, 814 m, https://directindex.org/r/theflaminchicken.com); Shiva Tandoori & Balti House (F, 872 m, https://directindex.org/r/shivaindiantakeaway.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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 89 places. Hou Wei wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/houwei.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Hou Wei in Manchester

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2333 | 55% | 33% | 81.5% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester: Abaseen Oldham (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/abaseenoldham.co.uk); Beech Inn (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/socialpubandkitchen.co.uk); Bread & Butties - Sale (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/breadandbuttiessale.online); Double Tree (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/doubletreealtrincham.co.uk); Emilio's (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/emilios.online).

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 41st of 2,333 in Manchester, up from 360th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hou Wei, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/houwei.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://houwei.co.uk/index.php?ac=shop&k=How,Wei,Takeaway,896,Chester,Rd,Manchester,M32,0PA (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: 0161 864 2303
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/houwei.co.uk/order

## 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 | 23 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/houwei.co.uk
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- 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/houwei.co.uk/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/houwei.co.uk/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=houwei.co.uk&force=1