The Direct Index
Report · Victoria · scanned 2026-11-14

Yalla

letsgoyalla.ca is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Yalla directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Through chownow acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mo-Sa 11:00-21:00, Su 11:00-16:00

1011 Blanshard Street · +1-250-384-0069

Prices: 32 prices on the site, the middle one CA$18.50

Nearby, also direct

Places near Yalla 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 Yalla's website. It can read what Yalla offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ChowNow.

64.6%

42 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.

32 prices on the landing page, the middle one CA$18.50.

In Victoria, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is CA$15.00.

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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.

The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Victoria and named 88 places. Yalla wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Yalla compares

Where it stands

181 of 348 in Victoria

Top 52% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Messob Ethiopian C, Serena's Pizzeria and Hoagies C. Just below: Kinton Ramen C, Kwong Tung Seafood Restaurant C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours71%no
Have an llms.txt40%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 263,486 sites55%25%64.6%
Sites using ChowNow 1,245 sites73%56%64.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
be love13 mBno
Superflux Cabana bar_and_grill27 mAyes
Menbow Ramen Bar ramen31 mCyes
Pho Tru vietnamese35 mDno
Fish Hook fish, salad38 mByes
Original Pho vietnamese41 mAyes
Valentino's Restaurant43 mAno
Tourist Wine Bar44 mFno
Good Ovening Korean Pub and Oven Roasted Chicken48 mByes
Kanpai Asian Eatery & Bar66 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Yalla in Victoria

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Victoria34862%41%64.6%
Sites built with WordPress in Victoria11869%50%64.6%
Sites using ChowNow in Victoria165%0%64.6%
Sites built with WordPress and using ChowNow in Victoria165%0%64.6%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 46th of 348 in Victoria, up from 181st.

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 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. 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 Victoria. 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.
  • Ordering through chownow on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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. Show the details