The Direct Index
Report · Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-16

Barber

thebarbersonline.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookWebsite

Ways to reach Barber directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. Through zenoti acting for the business. Report a mistake

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Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Barber's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Zenoti.

48.8%

31.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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 Barber compares

Where it stands

53 of 90 in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 59% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Franck Provost D, Uma Nova D. Just below: Mary Cohr D, 360th cup avenue D.

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 HTML30%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)90%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours30%no
Have an llms.txt30%no

The top 10% are the 10 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%48.8%
Sites using Zenoti 72 sites60%25%48.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
L'art D pl'hair411 mDno
Seychelles Coiffure1.1 kmFno
Marionnaud2.3 kmByes
AJ Coiffure3.7 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Barber in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons9050%17%48.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons4156%22%48.8%
Sites using Zenoti in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons149%0%48.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using Zenoti in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons149%0%48.8%

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

Jade Mazère B 76.9% · America Shop Hair B 75.4% · Bonhomme B 75.4% · La Maison du Coiffeur B 75.4% · Smart Duck B 75.4%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No price list of services found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 2nd of 90 in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 53rd.

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. No price list of services found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

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

    Requests as GPTBot (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. 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 Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact-us/: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Barber",
  "url": "https://thebarbersonline.com/",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 47.2623288,
    "longitude": -1.5898638
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://thebarbers.zenoti.com/webstoreNew/giftcards/bfb32028-0621-446b-b99f-e05f207aa85b",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Barber

> hair salon in Nantes hairdressers and beauty salons.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://thebarbers.zenoti.com/webstoreNew/giftcards/bfb32028-0621-446b-b99f-e05f207aa85b (through zenoti acting for the business)

## About

- Website: https://thebarbersonline.com/
- 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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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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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thebarbersonline.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thebarbersonline.com.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 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 Barber

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/thebarbersonline.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/nantes-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookthebarbers.zenoti.com/webstoreNew/giftcards/bfb32028-0621-44 vendor on own site: Zenotifound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/thebarbersonline.com/book 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
Zenoti, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

Zenoti's terms (17 April 2026) bind the businesses that use it, not the people who book: section 4.1(j) bars robots, bots, spiders and scrapers from monitoring or copying the services and section 5.6 allows API integrations only under a written agreement; each business sets its own consumer terms, so an agent booking for a client is not addressed here. Source. About Zenoti · all vendors.

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.txtno how
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 discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
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