The Direct Index
Report · Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-24

@Sandton Spa

sandton-spa.co.za is hard for agents to use.

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5 Benmore Rd, 2196, Sandton · +27113954777

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by @Sandton Spa's website. What @Sandton Spa offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through booking.nanoverse.co.za.

48.8%

31.7 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.

The footer says © 2022.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Johannesburg, 65% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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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 12 everyday questions about Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons and named 54 places. @Sandton Spa wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How @Sandton Spa compares

Where it stands

299 of 649 in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 46% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Salon Paul Mitchell Bryanston D, Vuyo's nails D. Just below: Heaven on Earth Skin• Body • Laser •Hair Studio D, Planet Nails Classifieds D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain91%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML19%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours18%no
Have an llms.txt53%no

The top 10% are the 68 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%48.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Lavana Deluxe Spa216 mCyes
Lavana Beauty Spa249 mCyes
Nailporium and more334 mDno
Prince Kutz Hair Studio395 mDno
Sandton Aesthetic Institute446 mDno
Studio 113574 mFno
Natural Expressions Cc581 mFno
TUSC - Medical Aesthetics833 mFno
Depilstop Johannesburg840 mFno
Blissful Place Nail and Beauty950 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like @Sandton Spa in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons64946%13%48.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons30853%18%48.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons

Eden Spa at The Wesley A 90.8% · Life Day Spa A 90.8% · Life Day Spa Aspen Hills A 90.8% · Life Day Spa Rosebank A 90.8% · Revive Kids Spa and Party Venue A 90.8%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Appointments through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 90.8%, which would be first of 649 in Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons.

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 (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. How to fix it

  2. Appointments through an unrecognised third party +9 points

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

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as ClaudeBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. Price list of services is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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 Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons. 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.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-us/: 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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "@Sandton Spa",
  "url": "http://sandton-spa.co.za/",
  "telephone": "+27113954777",
  "address": "5 Benmore Rd, 2196, Sandton",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -26.0979358,
    "longitude": 28.05015291
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# @Sandton Spa

> local business in 5 Benmore Rd, 2196, Sandton, Johannesburg hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +27113954777.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://sandton-spa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/@Sandton-Spa-treatment-menu.pdf

## About

- Website: http://sandton-spa.co.za/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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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 @Sandton Spa

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/sandton-spa.co.za, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/johannesburg-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menusandton-spa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/@Sandton-Spa-tr pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+27113954777

Stable links that count: /go/sandton-spa.co.za/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 discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
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