# Merchant's Arch: Agent-Direct Score F (0%)

Site: https://www.merchantsarch.ie/menus
Report: https://directindex.org/r/merchantsarch.ie
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Merchant's Arch's website could not be reached by the scanner on 2026-10-15 (cloudflare challenge). Rescans are free.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Merchant's Arch, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## What to fix first
- **The site could not be read at all.** A bot challenge stands in front of the site (cloudflare_challenge); a plain fetch never reaches the page. A real browser was tried as well and got browser: Unable to create new browser: code: 429: message: Rate limit exceeded.

## Already right
- Nothing.

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

## Where it stands
319 of 338 in Dublin cafes and bars. Top 94% 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% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 88% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 91% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 35% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 18% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Quays Bar (F, 48 m, https://directindex.org/r/quaysdublin.ie); The Auld Dubliner (B, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/aulddubliner.ie); The Oliver St John Gogarty (C, 85 m, https://directindex.org/r/gogartys.ie); The Old Storehouse (C, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/theoldstorehouse.ie); r.i.o.t. (C, 93 m, https://directindex.org/r/riotdublin.com); The Temple Bar (C, 99 m, https://directindex.org/r/thetemplebarpub.com); Vintage Cocktail Club (B, 101 m, https://directindex.org/r/vintagecocktailclub.com); The Bakehouse (A, 113 m, https://directindex.org/r/bakehousedublin.ie); The Whiskey Reserve (C, 122 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewhiskeyreserve.com); Toca Tapioca House (C, 132 m, https://directindex.org/r/tocatapioca.com).

## 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 Merchant's Arch in Dublin cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Dublin cafes and bars | 338 | 50% | 26% | 0% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Dublin cafes and bars: The Strand House (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/strandhouse.ie); Urban Brewing (A 97.5%, https://directindex.org/r/urbanbrewing.ie); Eathos (A 96.9%, https://directindex.org/r/eathosdublin.com); Bison Bar (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bisonbar.ie); Searsons (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/searsonsbar.ie).

## The direct record
What agents get for Merchant's Arch, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/merchantsarch.ie
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record

## 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/merchantsarch.ie/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/merchantsarch.ie/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=merchantsarch.ie&force=1