The Direct Index
Report · Paris · scanned 2026-10-15

McDonald's

mcdonalds.com is partly visible to agents.

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Order directly: www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/latest/mcdelivery.html on the business's own site · Menu: www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu.html

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Read by AI agents 3 times this month. The crawlers behind the assistants read this page when they answer questions about the business.

56.9%

37 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No structured data for the business.

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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Paris. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · menu page /gb/en-gb/menu.html: nothing new; booking page /gb/en-gb/latest/mcdelivery.html: ordering via ubereats, ordering via justeat, ordering via deliveroo; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Show the code to paste

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": "FastFoodRestaurant",
  "name": "McDonald's",
  "url": "https://www.mcdonalds.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Rue de l'Arc en Ciel 17",
    "postalCode": "75001",
    "addressLocality": "Paris"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 48.8619547,
    "longitude": 2.3458867
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "burger"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu.html",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/latest/mcdelivery.html",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Where it stands

How McDonald's compares

Where it stands

1,665 of 2,897 in Paris

Top 57% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Le Petit Dakar C, Les Fanés C. Just below: Monte Cristo C, Neige d'Été C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML98%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours87%no
Have an llms.txt63%yes

The top tenth is the 294 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Flat my burger burger111 mFno
Twilsons burger186 mDno
Bistro Burger burger194 mDno
Melt Deli burger, sandwich216 mByes
Le Paname french, burger229 mFno
Los Brothers kebab, burger, sandwich230 mFno
Chik'Chill burger249 mCno
G La Dalle burger253 mDno
Black and White burger279 mBno
Manhattn's Burgers burger413 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like McDonald's in Paris

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Paris2,89758%40%56.9%

The best of Same kind in Paris

Albufera A 100% · Apeti Segur A 100% · Au Trou Gascon A 100% · Baca'v A 100% · Baieta A 100%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: 68th of 2,897 in Paris, up from 1665th.

This site appears in 44 cities (84 places on mcdonalds.com). Every city it is in →

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Assistants

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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Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score C

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for McDonald's

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/mcdonalds.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/paris/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/latest/mcdelivery.html own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested
Menuwww.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu.html html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Agents and people followed 1 direct link to this business this month (1 by AI agents).

Stable links that count: /go/mcdonalds.com/order, /go/mcdonalds.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
no
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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /gb/en-gb/latest/mcdelivery.html: ordering via ubereats, ordering via justeat, ordering via deliveroo.

Agent readiness

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 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