# Mercado: Agent-Direct Score F (0%)

Site: https://instance.com/mercado.mcr
Report: https://directindex.org/r/instance.com
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Mercado's website could not be reached by the scanner on 2026-10-15 (origin timeout). Rescans are free.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Mercado, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 161 434 2020

## What to fix first
- **The site could not be read at all.** The server did not answer requests coming from Cloudflare's network. A hosting firewall may be blocking it. A real browser was tried as well and got inspect: Execution context was destroyed.

## Already right
- Nothing.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
226 of 239 in Manchester. Top 95% 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 | 88% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 33% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Rustik Cafe Bar (F, 12 m, https://directindex.org/r/rustikcafebar.co.uk); Proove (C, 106 m, https://directindex.org/r/proove.co.uk); Piccolino (A, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/piccolinorestaurants.com); italiana (B, 1181 m, https://directindex.org/r/italianafiftyfive.co.uk); Moon (C, 1266 m, https://directindex.org/r/moononline.co.uk); The Grubfellas (D, 1285 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegrubfellas.co.uk); Pepe's (B, 1318 m, https://directindex.org/r/pepes.co.uk); Persia Grill House (F, 1357 m, https://directindex.org/r/persiagrill.com); Olio (A, 1445 m, https://directindex.org/r/olioflames.co.uk); Bella Vita (B, 1450 m, https://directindex.org/r/bellavitatrattoria.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.

## Businesses like Mercado in Manchester

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 239 | 54% | 41% | 0% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester: Wagamama (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/wagamama.com); Olio (A 97.5%, https://directindex.org/r/olioflames.co.uk); Ban Di Bul (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bandibul.co.uk); Fazenda (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.uk); ASK Italian (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/askitalian.co.uk).

## The direct record
What agents get for Mercado, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/instance.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo-We 08:00-16:30, Th, Su 08:00-22:00, Fr 08:00-00:00, Sa 09:00-00:00 (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 161 434 2020

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 30 |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/instance.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/instance.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=instance.com&force=1