# merak: Agent-Direct Score D (49.2%)

Site: https://merakvienna.at/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/merakvienna.at
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
merak is hard for agents to use.
AI assistants cannot open the website of merak, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://widget.formitable.com/side/en/8d4cdfe5/book?paymentProvider=None&toolbar=true&mobileToolbar=true&tag=Website&color=%23000000&reopen=true&preview=false (through formitable acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.merakvienna.at/menus
- Phone: +43 676 5726450

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Booking through formitable on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: The site could not be read at all
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away

## Where it stands
1445 of 2562 in Vienna. Top 56% 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 | 97% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 83% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 41% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Galaxie (C, 639 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-galaxie.at); Trixie Kiddo's (A, 724 m, https://directindex.org/r/trixiekiddos.at); Royal Grill (D, 862 m, https://directindex.org/r/royalgrill.at); Kod Kuma (C, 1331 m, https://directindex.org/r/kodkuma.at); Ferhatovic (C, 1353 m, https://directindex.org/r/ferhatovic.at); OAK-107 (D, 1466 m, https://directindex.org/r/oak-107.at); Etno Kuća (C, 1478 m, https://directindex.org/r/etnokuca.at); Berliner Babo (B, 1715 m, https://directindex.org/r/berliner-babo.at); Marengo (C, 1982 m, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-marengo.eu); Illyrian Restaurant (D, 2134 m, https://directindex.org/r/schlichtvegan.at).

## 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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 51% (26% A or B, 5296 sites); This site 49.2%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/merakvienna.at/agent-view

## Businesses like merak in Vienna

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Vienna | 2562 | 50% | 24% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with Wix in Vienna | 154 | 59% | 36% | 49.2% |
| Sites using Formitable in Vienna | 2 | 36% | 0% | 49.2% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Formitable in Vienna | 1 | 49% | 0% | 49.2% |

The best of the sites built with Wix in Vienna: Sperling im Augarten (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/sperling.wien); Addicted to Rock Stadtbahnbögen (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/addictedtoburger.at); Beograd (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-beograd.com); Bombay (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/restaurant-bombay.net); Familie Reiter (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/familiereiter.org).

With the fix above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included) the score would be about 87.7%: 125th of 2,562 in Vienna, up from 1445th.

## The direct record
What agents get for merak, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/merakvienna.at
- Book: https://widget.formitable.com/side/en/8d4cdfe5/book?paymentProvider=None&toolbar=true&mobileToolbar=true&tag=Website&color=%23000000&reopen=true&preview=false (vendor on own site: Formitable; found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.merakvienna.at/menus (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 11:30-22:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +43 676 5726450
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/merakvienna.at/book, https://directindex.org/go/merakvienna.at/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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
- Vendor terms for agents, Formitable: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet.

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/merakvienna.at/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/merakvienna.at/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=merakvienna.at&force=1