The Direct Index
Report · Belfast cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-14

The Sunflower Bar

sunflowerbelfast.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach The Sunflower Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Report a mistake

Union Street 65 BT1 2JG Belfast · +44 28 9023 2474

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Sunflower Bar 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 The Sunflower Bar's website. What The Sunflower Bar offers is on another site. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

46.2%

30 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

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.

Where it stands

How The Sunflower Bar compares

Where it stands

141 of 234 in Belfast cafes and bars

Top 60% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: MCS Autosales D, Seatons of Sailortown D. Just below: The Perch Rooftop Bar D, General Merchants 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 HTML80%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours28%no
Have an llms.txt28%yes

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 8,863 sites35%10%46.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Reporter. Bar159 mFno
The Maverick165 mFno
Angel And Two Bibles228 mByes
Karaoke Shack Belfast231 mDno
The Deer's Head232 mDno
Neighbourhood Cafe267 mDno
The John Hewitt304 mByes
The Duke of York378 mCno
The Green Room Bar403 mCno
The Northern Whig irish422 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Sunflower Bar in Belfast cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Belfast cafes and bars23452%22%46.2%
Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Belfast cafes and bars225%0%46.2%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 234 in Belfast cafes and bars.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

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

  2. No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

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

    The link goes to bigcartel.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. 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 Belfast cafes and bars. 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.

Builder: godaddy · 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.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

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