The Direct Index
Report · Bristol · scanned 2026-10-24

Racks

racks-bristol.co.uk is ready for agents.

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BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Racks directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Saint Pauls Road BS8 1LX Bristol · +44 117 9741626

Nearby, also direct

Places near Racks that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Racks's website. It can read what Racks offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

86.2%

56 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

1

thing to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "A cheap lunch menu near the centre" and "A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?" in Bristol, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Bristol and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A cheap lunch menu near the centre.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-19
A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-19

Every place named in Bristol, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/racks-bristol.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/racks-bristol.co.uk.svg" alt="Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A cheap lunch menu near the centre.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
“A dinner for a group of twelve next Thursday. Who takes big tables online?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Racks compares

Where it stands

30 of 168 in Bristol

Top 18% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: No. 4 A, Pizzarova A. Just below: Sandwich Sandwich A, Suyuan A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours76%no
Have an llms.txt41%yes

The top 10% are the 17 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%86.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Your kitchen 渝湘 chinese134 mAyes
Cosmo international285 mCyes
Taco Bell tex-mex320 mCyes
Taka Taka pita437 mByes
Brown's british450 mByes
No. 1 York Place502 mAyes
condesa mexican522 mCyes
Pizza on the Park pizza555 mByes
Beerd pizza640 mFno
Tops Pizza pizza648 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Racks in Bristol

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Bristol16863%49%86.2%
Sites built with WordPress in Bristol5272%63%86.2%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Bristol

The Clifton Sausage A 95.4% · Mangosteen North Street (Thai Tapas & Bar) A 89.2% · Franco Manca A 88.8% · Pho A 86.3% · Cow & Sow A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 168 in Bristol, up from 30th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Bristol. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • 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
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about/: booking via designmynight; menu page /menus/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Racks",
  "url": "http://www.racks-bristol.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 117 9741626",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Saint Pauls Road",
    "postalCode": "BS8 1LX",
    "addressLocality": "Bristol"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4587718,
    "longitude": -2.6109288
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.racks-bristol.co.uk/menus/#BOOKATABLE",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.racks-bristol.co.uk/menus/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.racks-bristol.co.uk/menus/#BOOKATABLE",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score A

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/racks-bristol.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/racks-bristol.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Racks

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/racks-bristol.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/bristol/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.racks-bristol.co.uk/menus/#BOOKATABLE own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.racks-bristol.co.uk/menus/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 117 9741626

Stable links that count: /go/racks-bristol.co.uk/book, /go/racks-bristol.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /about/: booking via designmynight.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes