The Direct Index
Report · Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-21

Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road

howardyuill.co.uk is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

40 Hale Road, WA14 2EX, Altrincham · +441619416606

Nearby, also direct

Places near Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to Treatwell, a marketplace.

43.1%

28 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.

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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.

Where it stands

How Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road compares

Where it stands

1,004 of 1,587 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: House of Justine at no 24 Microblading and semi permanent make up D, House of Nails and Beauty D. Just below: Ian Rey Gentleman's Groomer D, Inner Beauty Salon D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML9%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours14%no
Have an llms.txt61%yes

The top 10% are the 162 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 24,646 sites53%30%43.1%
Sites using Treatwell 1,024 sites47%3%43.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Le Vogue Salon10 mCyes
Massage Therapy Manchester157 mFno
Inskin Group249 mCyes
Est.14 Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy283 mCno
Frisor Aveda Salon291 mByes
Dr Emma Goulding293 mCyes
District Hair and Beauty294 mCyes
Brow Game299 mCyes
British Hair Clinic Manchester330 mCyes
UNDERFOUND332 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons1,58750%22%43.1%
Sites built with Wix in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons19066%47%43.1%
Sites using Treatwell in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons1048%0%43.1%
Sites built with Wix and using Treatwell in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons351%0%43.1%

The best of the sites using Treatwell in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

Standish Brows and Beauty Bar C 61.5% · B Beautified C 56.9% · Indulgence Beauty and Hair Salon C 56.9% · Rupert Hayes Hair D 48.9% · The Beauty Lab D 47.7%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Appointments only through treatwell; No price list of services found), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 1,587 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons.

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 +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Appointments only through treatwell +12 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. No price list of services found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. 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 hairdressers and beauty salons. 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.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.

Builder: wix

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 wix.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. the official help page.

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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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road",
  "url": "http://www.howardyuill.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+441619416606",
  "address": "40 Hale Road, WA14 2EX, Altrincham",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.38157033,
    "longitude": -2.34825426
  }
}
</script>
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 Howard Yuill Hairdressing and Sabre Mens Grooming at 40 Hale Road

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-21 found no booking or ordering link on howardyuill.co.uk or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/howardyuill.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+441619416606

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
yes
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
Vendor terms for agents
Treatwell, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

Treatwell's website and app terms of use (April 2024), section 8.4.3, forbid automated systems or software that extract content or data without a written licence; bookings fall under separate booking terms that were not read, so an agent booking for a customer is not addressed here. Source. About Treatwell · all vendors.

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