The Direct Index
Report · Edmonton · scanned 2026-10-24

Lalibela African Restaurant

lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Lalibela African Restaurant directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake

Whyte Avenue NW 9920 T6E 1Y9 Edmonton · +15874554268

Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one CA$3.25

Nearby, also direct

Places near Lalibela African Restaurant 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 Lalibela African Restaurant's website. It can read what Lalibela African Restaurant offers. It can't find a link to book or order online.

49.2%

32 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2023.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

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4 prices on the landing page, the middle one CA$3.25.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday" in Edmonton, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Edmonton and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Edmonton, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Lalibela African Restaurant compares

Where it stands

146 of 210 in Edmonton

Top 70% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hot Philly D, Italia Mia D. Just below: Pho Hoan Pasteur D, Thirsty Camel 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 HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours68%no
Have an llms.txt45%yes

The top 10% are the 22 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 48,660 sites52%28%49.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Chicken House & Catering filipino110 mAyes
Maki Maki Japanese and Vietnamese Restaurant japanese, vietnamese295 mCyes
Taqueria El Chingon mexican326 mAyes
Nhon Hoa Sandwich Bar sandwich, vietnamese421 mDno
Fattoush437 mAyes
Under the High Wheel breakfast, coffee_shop, local439 mFno
Dorinku Tokyo japanese469 mByes
Leopold's Tavern Edmonton - Strathcona548 mByes
Damso Izakaya japanese642 mByes
Pals Sandwiches683 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Lalibela African Restaurant in Edmonton

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Edmonton21061%43%49.2%
Sites built with Wix in Edmonton1567%40%49.2%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Edmonton

Bulgogi House A 92.3% · Campus Pizza A 90.8% · NARA Katsu A 90.8% · Pho King A 87.7% · Damso Izakaya B 81.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 10th of 210 in Edmonton, up from 146th.

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 (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points

    There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. 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 Edmonton. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Lalibela African Restaurant",
  "url": "https://www.lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com/menus",
  "telephone": "+15874554268",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Whyte Avenue NW 9920",
    "postalCode": "T6E 1Y9",
    "addressLocality": "Edmonton"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.5182266,
    "longitude": -113.486966
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "ethiopian"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com/menus"
}
</script>
Owners

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If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Lalibela African Restaurant

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edmonton/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com/menus html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+15874554268

Stable links that count: /go/lalibelaafricanrestaurant.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

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
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