# The Africa Center: Agent-Direct Score D (43.1%) Site: https://www.theafricacenter.org/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/theafricacenter.org Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) The Africa Center is hard for agents to use. ## Direct links - Phone: 2124449795 ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No way to buy tickets online.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a ticket or booking page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Africa Center > museum in 5th Avenue 1280 10029 New York, New York tours, attractions and museums. Phone 2124449795. ## Opening hours Su-Th 12:00-20:00 ## About - Website: https://www.theafricacenter.org/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then) - Fixed: nothing - New: nothing ## Where it stands 99 of 191 in New York tours, attractions and museums. Top 52% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth 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 | 15% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 10% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places in the index: Museum of the City of New York (C, 478 m, https://directindex.org/r/mcny.org); Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (F, 1332 m, https://directindex.org/r/stjohndivine.org); The Studio Museum In Harlem (C, 1351 m, https://directindex.org/r/studiomuseum.org); The Jewish Museum (C, 1384 m, https://directindex.org/r/thejewishmuseum.org); Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (C, 1516 m, https://directindex.org/r/cooperhewitt.org); National Jazz Museum in Harlem (B, 1602 m, https://directindex.org/r/jmih.org); Guggenheim Museum (F, 1688 m, https://directindex.org/r/guggenheim.org); Nicholas Roerich Museum (F, 1810 m, https://directindex.org/r/roerich.org); Neue Galerie New York (C, 1916 m, https://directindex.org/r/neuegalerie.org); Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (F, 2038 m, https://directindex.org/r/nyu.edu). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 43%, 2026-10-15 43%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/theafricacenter.org/agent-view ## Businesses like The Africa Center in New York tours, attractions and museums | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in New York tours, attractions and museums | 191 | 41% | 6% | 43.1% | The best of Same kind in New York tours, attractions and museums: Lightship Frying Pan (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/fryingpan.com); My Travel To New York (B 83.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ilmioviaggioanewyork.com); Great American Charters (B 82.5%, https://directindex.org/r/greatamericancharters.com); Skyscraper Museum (B 81.3%, https://directindex.org/r/skyscraper.org); Fraunces Tavern Museum (B 75%, https://directindex.org/r/frauncestavernmuseum.org). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No way to buy tickets online; No tickets and prices found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 191 in New York tours, attractions and museums. ## The direct record What agents get for The Africa Center, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/theafricacenter.org - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: Su-Th 12:00-20:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: 2124449795 ## 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): 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 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/theafricacenter.org - 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - 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 Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/theafricacenter.org/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=theafricacenter.org&force=1