The Charles
thecharlesbaltimore.com is hard for agents to use.
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1110 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21230-4215 · +1 410-727-2333
Places near The Charles that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Liv’s Tavern30 m
- MaGerk's60 m · american
- Crossbar90 m
- Spoons110 m · breakfast
- Ropewalk Tavern110 m
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Charles's website. It can read what The Charles offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.
32.6 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Not Ready
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.
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 12 everyday questions about Baltimore cafes and bars and named 52 places. The Charles wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Charles compares
155 of 292 in Baltimore cafes and bars
Top 53% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Turp's Sports Bar & Restaurant D, Zissimos Bar D. Just below: Baltimore Country Club D, Birds Of A Feather D.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 93% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 23% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 17% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Wix 52,613 sites | 52% | 28% | 50.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liv’s Tavern | 34 m | A | yes |
| MaGerk's american | 59 m | F | yes |
| Crossbar | 92 m | A | yes |
| The Wurst | 95 m | D | no |
| Spoons breakfast | 111 m | A | yes |
| Ropewalk Tavern | 112 m | C | yes |
| Market Ale House | 126 m | F | no |
| Illusions Bar & Theater | 131 m | B | yes |
| Chatime Federal Hill | 169 m | A | yes |
| Blue Moon Too breakfast | 190 m | F | yes |
Businesses like The Charles in Baltimore cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore cafes and bars | 292 | 50% | 25% | 50.2% |
| Sites built with Wix in Baltimore cafes and bars | 24 | 60% | 25% | 50.2% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 86.2%. That would be 20th of 292 in Baltimore cafes and bars, up from 155th.
What to fix first
- 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
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points
Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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
- robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points
These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it
- No working HTTPS +3 points
The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.
- Structured data is incomplete +3 points
Missing: opening hours. How to fix it
- 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
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Already right
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
Builder: wix · contact page /about: answered 404; menu page /menus: nothing new · What to paste
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