# The Palace of Indian: Agent-Direct Score D (43.1%) Site: https://palaceofindian.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/palaceofindian.com Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) The Palace of Indian is hard for agents to use. AI assistants cannot open the website of The Palace of Indian, so they rely on what other sites say about it. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/palace-of-indian-cuisine-philadelphia (through clover acting for the business) - Menu: https://palaceofindian.com/menu - Phone: +1-215-982-1666 ## What to fix first - **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); 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 - **Booking only through opentable.** (+5 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Clover's terms bar bots and automated use; a direct form on your own site has no such limit.** (+5 points) Clover's consumer app terms (8 June 2023, section 3.5), linked from its online ordering pages, bar any deep-link, robot, spider or other device or process to access, copy or monitor the site or app, and bar the use of buying agents; no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.clover.com/consumer/terms. An agent that books or orders there acts outside the vendor's terms unless the vendor permits it; a form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+4 points) Missing: telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant ## 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 ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything. - **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **Ordering through clover on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours. ## Where it stands 455 of 639 in Philadelphia. Top 71% 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 | 98% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 83% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 13% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Taste of Punjab (C, 1182 m, https://directindex.org/r/tasteofpunjabphilly.com); Amma's South Indian Cuisine (D, 2366 m, https://directindex.org/r/ammasrestaurants.com); Veda (A, 2580 m, https://directindex.org/r/vedaphilly.com); Masala Kitchen (A, 2620 m, https://directindex.org/r/masalakitchen.com); Thanal Indian Tavern (A, 2982 m, https://directindex.org/r/thanalphilly.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. Against its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 46% (19% A or B, 764 sites); Sites using OpenTable 66% (40% A or B, 1647 sites); Sites using Clover 66% (46% A or B, 121 sites); This site 43.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/palaceofindian.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Palace of Indian in Philadelphia | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia | 639 | 56% | 39% | 43.1% | | Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Philadelphia | 15 | 42% | 7% | 43.1% | | Sites using OpenTable in Philadelphia | 36 | 65% | 33% | 43.1% | | Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder and using OpenTable in Philadelphia | 1 | 43% | 0% | 43.1% | The best of the sites using OpenTable in Philadelphia: Thanal Indian Tavern (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/thanalphilly.com); La Famiglia Ristorante (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/lafamiglia.com); White Dog Cafe (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/whitedog.com); Oasis Mexican Grill (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/oasismexicangrill.com); Hard Rock Cafe (A 89%, https://directindex.org/r/hardrock.com). With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Booking only through opentable; Clover's terms bar bots and automated use; a direct form on your own site has no such limit) the score would be about 96.9%: 20th of 639 in Philadelphia, up from 455th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Palace of Indian, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/palaceofindian.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/palace-of-indian-cuisine-philadelphia (vendor on own site: Clover; found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested) - Menu: https://palaceofindian.com/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: Su-Th 11:00-15:00, 16:30-22:00; Fr-Sa 11:00-15:00, 16:30-22:30 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-215-982-1666 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/palaceofindian.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/palaceofindian.com/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, Clover: No. Clover's consumer app terms (8 June 2023, section 3.5), linked from its online ordering pages, bar any deep-link, robot, spider or other device or process to access, copy or monitor the site or app, and bar the use of buying agents; no agent programme was found. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.clover.com/consumer/terms Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 0 | 25 | | Readable | 18 | 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/palaceofindian.com/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/palaceofindian.com/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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=palaceofindian.com&force=1