The Direct Index
Report · London cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

The Albert Arms

thealbertarmsesher.co.uk is hard for agents to use.

AI assistants cannot open the website of The Albert Arms, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Book directly: bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=593517a1c5f0c76aaa3 through designmynight acting for the business · Menu: www.thealbertarmsesher.co.uk/eat

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53.8%

35 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

1

thing to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new The site turned every visitor without a browser away.

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How The Albert Arms compares

Where it stands

1,417 of 2,436 in London cafes and bars

Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: TWG Tea D, The 411 London D. Just below: The Alpaca D, The Auld Shillelagh D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours69%yes
Have an llms.txt12%no

The top tenth is the 244 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using DesignMyNight 44 sites67%34%53.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Bear99 mCno
G!ro320 mFyes
The Prince of Wales1.1 kmByes
Platform 31.5 kmFno
The Royal George2.5 kmAyes
Bricklayers Arms2.5 kmByes
George and Dragon fish_and_chips3.2 kmCno
The Limping Fox pub3.5 kmAyes
The Deli coffee_shop3.6 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Albert Arms in London cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars2,43654%38%53.8%
Sites built with Duda in London cafes and bars1329%0%53.8%
Sites using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars3866%29%53.8%
Sites built with Duda and using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars154%0%53.8%

The best of the sites using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars

The Oyster Shed A 95.4% · Duke's Head A 92.3% · Halfway House A 92.3% · The Leather Bottle A 87.7% · The Union Bar & Grill B 83.1%

The climb

With the fix above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included) the score would be about 92.3%: 162nd of 2,436 in London cafes and bars, up from 1417th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (http_403); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in London cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: duda · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got http_403; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

Rescan now · Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR 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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Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Albert Arms

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/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=593517a1c5f0c76aaa3 vendor on own site: DesignMyNightfound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.thealbertarmsesher.co.uk/eat html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 1372 877117

Stable links that count: /go/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk/book, /go/thealbertarmsesher.co.uk/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
Vendor terms for agents
DesignMyNight, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About DesignMyNight · all vendors.

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got http_403); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

JSON-LD for the businessyes