# Salon 262: Agent-Direct Score F (35.4%)

Site: https://www.salon262.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/salon262.co.uk
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.)
Salon 262 is largely invisible to agents.
An AI assistant can open Salon 262's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 1223 561164
- Address: Mill Road 262 CB1 3NF Cambridge

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Salon 262 that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Bamboo (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/bamboohairdressing.co.uk
- Rio Salon & Barber (220 m): https://directindex.org/r/riosalonandbarber.co.uk
- Emma Kenny Therapies (660 m): https://directindex.org/r/emmakennytherapies.com
- Elajé (1.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/elaje.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No online booking 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 an online appointment page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **The footer says © 2016.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

## 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": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Salon 262",
  "url": "https://www.salon262.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 1223 561164",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Mill Road 262",
    "postalCode": "CB1 3NF",
    "addressLocality": "Cambridge"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.1970995,
    "longitude": 0.146635
  }
}
</script>
```

## 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.

## Where it stands
44 of 48 in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 92% 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 | 90% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 0% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 10% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 40% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Bamboo (B, 169 m, https://directindex.org/r/bamboohairdressing.co.uk); Fontana Beauty (D, 170 m, https://directindex.org/r/fontanabeauty.co.uk); Rio Salon & Barber (B, 223 m, https://directindex.org/r/riosalonandbarber.co.uk); Emma Kenny Therapies (B, 662 m, https://directindex.org/r/emmakennytherapies.com); Salon Services (B, 956 m, https://directindex.org/r/sallybeauty.co.uk); Maccas (D, 1038 m, https://directindex.org/r/maccasbarber.co.uk); Hills Barber Stop (F, 1074 m, https://directindex.org/r/hillsbarbers.app); Elajé (C, 1140 m, https://directindex.org/r/elaje.co.uk); Urban Hair (D, 1284 m, https://directindex.org/r/urbanhair.co); CB1 Cambridge Nails (D, 1303 m, https://directindex.org/r/cb1nails.uk).

## 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.


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Wix 52% (28% A or B, 48660 sites); This site 35.4%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/salon262.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Salon 262 in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons | 48 | 54% | 21% | 35.4% |
| Sites built with Wix in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons | 6 | 61% | 50% | 35.4% |

The best of the sites built with Wix in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons: Emma Kenny Therapies (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/emmakennytherapies.com); Rio Salon & Barber (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/riosalonandbarber.co.uk); Elegance Beauty Salon (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/elegancebeautysalon.co.uk); Jagged Edge Barbers (C 60%, https://directindex.org/r/jaggededgebarbers.com); The Barbers Cambridge (F 38.5%, https://directindex.org/r/thebarberscambridge.co.uk).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No online booking link on the website; No price list of services found), the score would be about 92.3%, which would be first of 48 in Cambridge hairdressers and beauty salons.

## The direct record
What agents get for Salon 262, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/salon262.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +44 1223 561164

## 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): yes
- 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 | 23 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 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/salon262.co.uk
- 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: yes
- 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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/salon262.co.uk/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/salon262.co.uk/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=salon262.co.uk&force=1