# Old Mother Hubbard's: Agent-Direct Score C (56.9%) Site: https://mother-hubbards.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/mother-hubbards.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-25 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Old Mother Hubbard's is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Old Mother Hubbard's's website. What Old Mother Hubbard's offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.mother-hubbards.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026_food_and_drink.pdf - Phone: +44 161 652 6354 - Address: Manchester Street 270 OL9 6HB Oldham - Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one £17.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Old Mother Hubbard's that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Krispy Catch (1.5 km): https://directindex.org/r/krispycatch.co - REEL fishandchipsoldham (2.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/reelfishandchips.co.uk - The Village Chippy (3.5 km): https://directindex.org/r/villagechippyfailsworth.online ## What to fix first - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **4 prices on the landing page, the middle one £17.00.** In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.00. ## Fix kit: What to paste 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Old Mother Hubbard's > fast food restaurant (fish and chips) in Manchester Street 270 OL9 6HB Oldham, Manchester. Phone +44 161 652 6354. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.mother-hubbards.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026_food_and_drink.pdf ## About - Website: https://mother-hubbards.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it ## Where it stands 1326 of 2377 in Manchester. Top 56% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 85% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 49% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 28% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Levers Fish & Chip Shop (C, 968 m, https://directindex.org/r/oldham.co.uk); Krispy Catch (C, 1513 m, https://directindex.org/r/krispycatch.co); REEL fishandchipsoldham (C, 2286 m, https://directindex.org/r/reelfishandchips.co.uk); Open Kitchen (D, 3286 m, https://directindex.org/r/openkitchenmcr.co.uk); The Old Plough Chippy (F, 3340 m, https://directindex.org/r/emayon.com); The Village Chippy (A, 3485 m, https://directindex.org/r/villagechippyfailsworth.online); The Willow Chinese Takeaway (C, 3525 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewillowfailsworth.co.uk); Man Sun Fish and Chips (F, 4230 m, https://directindex.org/r/mansun.co.uk). ## What assistants answer 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 23 everyday questions about Manchester and named 142 places. Old Mother Hubbard's wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); This site 56.9%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/mother-hubbards.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Old Mother Hubbard's in Manchester | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Manchester | 2377 | 55% | 33% | 56.9% | | Sites built with WordPress in Manchester | 555 | 65% | 48% | 56.9% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Manchester: The Great Kathmandu (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/greatkathmandu.com); Fazenda (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.uk); Red Lion High Lane (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/redlionhighlane.pub); Ribeye Steakhouse (A 94.9%, https://directindex.org/r/ribeyesteakhouse.com); Gusto Italian (A 92.5%, https://directindex.org/r/gustorestaurants.com). With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 42nd of 2,377 in Manchester, up from 1326th. ## The direct record What agents get for Old Mother Hubbard's, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/mother-hubbards.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.mother-hubbards.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026_food_and_drink.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +44 161 652 6354 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/mother-hubbards.co.uk/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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 12 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/mother-hubbards.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/mother-hubbards.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/mother-hubbards.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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=mother-hubbards.co.uk&force=1