# PHL17: Agent-Direct Score F (23.1%)

Site: http://www.phl17.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/phl17.com
Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
PHL17 is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open PHL17's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://phl17.com/phl17-news/phl17-segments-shows/phl17-student-athlete-of-the-week/phl17-student-athlete-of-the-week-danny-carter/
- Phone: +12158781700
- Address: 5001 Wynnefield Ave, 19131, Philadelphia

## Nearby, also direct
Places near PHL17 that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Robola Pizzeria (450 m): https://directindex.org/r/robolapizzeria.com
- Blimpie (900 m): https://directindex.org/r/blimpie.com
- Crescendo (900 m): https://directindex.org/r/highmarkmann.org
- The Halal Guys (1.2 km): https://directindex.org/r/thehalalguys.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+17.5 points) A plain fetch was refused (challenge:px-captcha). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User.** (no points, but worth doing) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Organization",
  "name": "PHL17",
  "url": "http://www.phl17.com/",
  "telephone": "+12158781700",
  "address": "5001 Wynnefield Ave, 19131, Philadelphia",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 39.99220071225896,
    "longitude": -75.22523941457897
  }
}
</script>
```

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

## Already right
- **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.

## Where it stands
1645 of 2075 in Philadelphia. Top 79% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 84% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 86% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 67% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 26% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Robola Pizzeria (A, 446 m, https://directindex.org/r/robolapizzeria.com); Larry's Steaks (C, 848 m, https://directindex.org/r/larrys-steaks.com); Pete's Pizza (F, 863 m, https://directindex.org/r/petes54th.com); Hawk & Barrel (C, 875 m, https://directindex.org/r/hawkandbarrel.com); Blimpie (B, 898 m, https://directindex.org/r/blimpie.com); Crescendo (C, 903 m, https://directindex.org/r/highmarkmann.org); Wynnefield Pizza (B, 974 m, https://directindex.org/r/wynnfieldpizza.com); Raindrops Indian Restaurant (C, 1057 m, https://directindex.org/r/raindropsindianrestaurant.com); The Halal Guys (B, 1166 m, https://directindex.org/r/thehalalguys.com); Sardi's Pollo a la Brasa (F, 1201 m, https://directindex.org/r/sardischicken.com).

## 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 22 everyday questions about Philadelphia and named 105 places. PHL17 wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/philadelphia/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); This site 23.1%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/phl17.com/agent-view

## Businesses like PHL17 in Philadelphia

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia | 2075 | 50% | 31% | 23.1% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Philadelphia | 432 | 62% | 39% | 23.1% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Philadelphia: Barstool Bites (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/seasideonthepier.com); Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Olympia Gyro (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/olympiagyro.net); Chuck E. Cheese (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/chuckecheese.com); Golden Gates Restaurant (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/goldengatesrestaurant.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 83.8%. That would be 287th of 2,075 in Philadelphia, up from 1645th.

## The direct record
What agents get for PHL17, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/phl17.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://phl17.com/phl17-news/phl17-segments-shows/phl17-student-athlete-of-the-week/phl17-student-athlete-of-the-week-danny-carter/ (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +12158781700
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/phl17.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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got challenge:px-captcha); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 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/phl17.com/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/phl17.com/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=phl17.com&force=1