The Direct Index
Report · Victoria · scanned 2026-11-14

Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery

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Ways to reach Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. Through doordash_storefront acting for the business. Report a mistake

531 Yates St, Victoria V8W 1K7 · +17786774190

Nearby, also direct

Places near Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery 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 Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery's website. It can read what Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through DoorDash Storefront.

66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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 Victoria and named 88 places. Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery compares

Where it stands

157 of 348 in Victoria

Top 45% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: 5th St. Bar and Grill C, BeaverTails C. Just below: Christie's Carriage House Pub C, Curry Shashwat C.

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 HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours71%no
Have an llms.txt40%yes

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 54,213 sites52%29%66.2%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront 3,312 sites70%57%66.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Reef caribbean21 mFno
El Furniture Warehouse24 mAyes
Fiamo Pizza & Wine Bar29 mDno
The Joint Pizzeria pizza35 mFyes
Curry Lounge Restaurant indian35 mByes
Uni Modern Japanese japanese38 mFno
Oceanvale Mortgage & Finance - Victoria40 mBno
Ferris' Burger & Oyster Bar seafood50 mAyes
Chimac51 mFno
Perro Negro tapas52 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Big Swell - Westcoast Eatery in Victoria

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Victoria34862%41%66.2%
Sites built with Wix in Victoria2973%48%66.2%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront in Victoria1068%30%66.2%
Sites built with Wix and using DoorDash Storefront in Victoria166%0%66.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 46th of 348 in Victoria, up from 157th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. 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 Victoria. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wix · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /menus: nothing new · 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