The Direct Index
Report · Madrid · scanned 2026-10-20

El Barril de Argüelles

restauranteelbarrildearguelles.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach El Barril de Argüelles directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-20. Report a mistake

Calle de Andrés Mellado, 69, 28015, Madrid · +34915443615

Esta página en español

Nearby, also direct

Places near El Barril de Argüelles 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 El Barril de Argüelles's website. What El Barril de Argüelles offers is on another site. To book or order, it is sent to TheFork, a marketplace.

50.8%

33 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

5

things 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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is. In Madrid, 22% of comparable sites declare one.

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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.

The assistants were asked 14 everyday questions about Madrid and named 106 places. El Barril de Argüelles wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How El Barril de Argüelles compares

Where it stands

1,959 of 3,063 in Madrid

Top 64% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Don Pedro Tacos D, El Arrozal D. Just below: El Barril de las Letras D, El Gran Barril D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours54%no
Have an llms.txt29%no

The top 10% are the 324 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%50.8%
Sites using TheFork 2,017 sites65%39%50.8%

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Churreria Las Farolas spanish752 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like El Barril de Argüelles in Madrid

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Madrid3,06358%40%50.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Madrid1,65368%52%50.8%
Sites using TheFork in Madrid12567%47%50.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using TheFork in Madrid9068%51%50.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using TheFork in Madrid

El Gordo de Velázquez A 100% · La Morena A 95.4% · Bizzo Moncloa A 86.2% · Ceferino A 86.2% · Corsario Madrid A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through thefork; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 3,063 in Madrid.

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. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through thefork +9 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  4. Menu or price list is on another site +5 points

    The link goes to grupo-oter.net, so that site gets the credit and the visits. How to fix it

  5. 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. 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 Madrid. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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.

Builder: wordpress

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "El Barril de Argüelles",
  "url": "http://restauranteelbarrildearguelles.com/",
  "telephone": "+34915443615",
  "address": "Calle de Andrés Mellado, 69, 28015, Madrid",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.43845892,
    "longitude": -3.71429388
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# El Barril de Argüelles

> local business (spanish) in Calle de Andrés Mellado, 69, 28015, Madrid, Madrid. Phone +34915443615.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://wp.grupo-oter.net/cartas/indice-barril-arguelles/

## About

- Website: http://restauranteelbarrildearguelles.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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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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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 El Barril de Argüelles

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/restauranteelbarrildearguelles.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/madrid/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwp.grupo-oter.net/cartas/indice-barril-arguelles/ externalfrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+34915443615

Stable links that count: /go/restauranteelbarrildearguelles.com/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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

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.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
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 businessno