The Direct Index
Report · St. Louis · scanned 2026-11-14

Smoking Barrels BBQ

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Ways to reach Smoking Barrels BBQ directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

5641 South Kingshighway Boulevard, Saint Louis 63109 · 13146699455

Nearby, also direct

Places near Smoking Barrels BBQ 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 Smoking Barrels BBQ's website. It can read what Smoking Barrels BBQ offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

86.2%

56 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

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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 22 everyday questions about St. Louis and named 147 places. Smoking Barrels BBQ wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Smoking Barrels BBQ compares

Where it stands

71 of 573 in St. Louis

Top 12% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Miami Grill A, Schlafly Tap room A. Just below: Steak 'n Shake A, Taco Buddha 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 HTML92%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours66%no
Have an llms.txt34%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 263,486 sites55%25%86.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Cafe Nova greek, mediterranean101 mDno
Pizza World pizza106 mDno
Pizzeria Tivoli pizza217 mFno
The Filling Station390 mDno
Onesto Pizza and Trattoria pizza456 mDno
Eni's Pizzeria pizza519 mAyes
Marco's Pizza pizza622 mByes
Crusoe's Legacy818 mAyes
China Garden chinese971 mFno
The Mack bar_and_grill975 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Smoking Barrels BBQ in St. Louis

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in St. Louis57356%37%86.2%
Sites built with WordPress in St. Louis11163%44%86.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 17th of 573 in St. Louis, up from 71st.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

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

  2. 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 St. Louis. 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.
  • Structured data found (Person) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /index.php/contact/: nothing new; menu page /index.php/menu/: 93 prices · What to paste

Owners

Own this business?

Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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. Show the details