The Delta
thedeltachicago.com is ready for agents.
55.3 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door
Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it
- No llms.txt
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Chicago. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- Structured data present (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: popmenu · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
224 of 1,647 in Chicago
Top 14% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Jet's Pizza A, TGI Fridays A. Just below: Anteprima B, Big Chicken B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 51% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | no |
The top tenth is the 166 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucia’s Gourmet Italian Cuisine italian | 148 m | D | no |
| Club Lucky italian | 278 m | B | yes |
| Amaru latin_american | 294 m | B | no |
| En Hakkore sushi, korean | 294 m | F | no |
| Devil Dawgs Wicker Park hot_dog, burger, milkshakes | 302 m | B | yes |
| The Bongo Room | 327 m | A | yes |
| NADC Burger burger | 336 m | A | yes |
| Cumin nepalese, indian | 348 m | C | yes |
| Nori sushi | 354 m | C | yes |
| Schwa | 361 m | C | no |
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
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.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
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.
Show the score
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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.