# Old Melbourne Gaol: Agent-Direct Score B (73.8%)

Site: https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au
Report: https://directindex.org/r/oldmelbournegaol.com.au
Scanned: 2026-10-17 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Old Melbourne Gaol is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Old Melbourne Gaol. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/event/30-for-under-30s/ (on the business's own site)
- Phone: +61 3 8663 7228

## What to fix first
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "TouristAttraction",
  "name": "Old Melbourne Gaol",
  "url": "https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au",
  "telephone": "+61 3 8663 7228",
  "email": "info@oldmelbournegaol.com.au",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Russell Street 377",
    "postalCode": "3000"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.8078116,
    "longitude": 144.9651252
  },
  "openingHours": "09:30-17:00; Dec 25 closed; easter -2 days closed",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "09:30",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/event/30-for-under-30s/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# Old Melbourne Gaol

> tourist attraction in Russell Street 377 3000, Melbourne tours, attractions and museums. Phone +61 3 8663 7228.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/event/30-for-under-30s/ (on the business's own site)

## Opening hours

09:30-17:00; Dec 25 closed; easter -2 days closed

## About

- Website: https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au
- 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 key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours
- **Tickets on your own site.** Agents can buy tickets without a marketplace in the loop.

## Where it stands
15 of 98 in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums. Top 15% 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 | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 20% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 50% | no |

Nearest places in the index: La Trobe Reading Room (B, 219 m, https://directindex.org/r/slv.vic.gov.au); RMIT Design Archives (F, 287 m, https://directindex.org/r/rmit.edu.au); Chinese Museum (F, 485 m, https://directindex.org/r/chinesemuseum.com.au); Queen Victoria Market (F, 652 m, https://directindex.org/r/qvm.com.au); Princess Theatre (B, 710 m, https://directindex.org/r/marrinergroup.com.au); Hellenic Museum (F, 857 m, https://directindex.org/r/hellenic.org.au); Fire Services Museum (D, 911 m, https://directindex.org/r/fsmv.net.au); Old Treasury Building Museum (D, 1008 m, https://directindex.org/r/oldtreasurybuilding.org.au); ANZ Banking Museum (B, 1021 m, https://directindex.org/r/anz.com); Museo Italiano (F, 1023 m, https://directindex.org/r/coasit.com.au).

## 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 WordPress 59% (32% A or B, 54721 sites); This site 73.8%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/oldmelbournegaol.com.au/agent-view

## Businesses like Old Melbourne Gaol in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums | 98 | 46% | 15% | 73.8% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums | 40 | 52% | 20% | 73.8% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums: Gunnamatta Trail Rides (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/gunnamatta.com.au); Fairfield Boathouse (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/fairfieldboathouse.com); Oakdene Cellar Door (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/quiddityplace.com.au); Mont De Lancey Museum (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/montdelancey.org.au); Chesterfield Farm (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/chesterfieldfarm.com.au).

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No tickets and prices found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 98 in Melbourne tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Old Melbourne Gaol, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/oldmelbournegaol.com.au
- Book: https://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/event/30-for-under-30s/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-17, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: 09:30-17:00; Dec 25 closed; easter -2 days closed (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +61 3 8663 7228
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/oldmelbournegaol.com.au/book

## 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 | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 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/oldmelbournegaol.com.au
- 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/oldmelbournegaol.com.au/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/oldmelbournegaol.com.au/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=oldmelbournegaol.com.au&force=1