Howling Hops Tank Bar
howlinghops.co.uk is partly visible to agents.
Menu: www.howlinghops.co.uk/pages/tank-beer-menu
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43 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- 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. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in London cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (Organization) but without address, phone or hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on shopify is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "BarOrPub",
"name": "Howling Hops Tank Bar",
"url": "https://howlinghops.co.uk/",
"telephone": "0203 583 8262",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "White Post Lane 43",
"postalCode": "E9 5EN",
"addressLocality": "London"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 51.5427876,
"longitude": -0.022598
},
"openingHours": "PH,Mo-Su 12:00-24:00+",
"hasMenu": "https://www.howlinghops.co.uk/pages/tank-beer-menu"
}
</script>
973 of 2,869 in London cafes and bars
Top 34% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Goldsmiths Café C, Granger & Co. C. Just below: Jamaica Blue C, Kova Patisserie C.
| 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% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 93% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | yes |
The top tenth is the 291 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Shopify 1,336 sites | 61% | 36% | 66.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| All My Friends | 53 m | C | no |
| The Milk Float | 111 m | B | yes |
| Gwenda | 122 m | B | no |
| Lord Napier and Star | 187 m | D | no |
| Burnt Umber | 188 m | B | yes |
| Inis | 196 m | C | yes |
| The Beer Merchants Tap charcuterie | 234 m | F | no |
| Bad Coffee coffee_shop | 271 m | D | no |
| Lvls | 273 m | C | yes |
| Pearl Dive Bar | 277 m | D | no |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | yes |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | yes |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | yes |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | yes |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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Show the score
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/howlinghops.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/howlinghops.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
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