Gas Lamp
thegaslampmanchester.co.uk is largely invisible to agents.
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 30% → 35%
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23 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.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14: fixed The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No llms.txt.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- No booking or ordering path at all +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points
Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester cafes and bars. 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.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
Builder: wix · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wix is in the guides.
Show the code to paste
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "BarOrPub",
"name": "Gas Lamp",
"url": "https://www.thegaslampmanchester.co.uk/",
"telephone": "+44 161 478 1224",
"email": "thegaslamp@gmail.com",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Bridge Street 50A",
"postalCode": "M3 3BW",
"addressLocality": "Manchester"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 53.4809916,
"longitude": -2.2495004
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Tu 16:00-00:00; We 12:00-00:00; Th 12:00-01:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-02:00; Su 12:00-22:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday"
],
"opens": "16:00",
"closes": "00:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Wednesday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "00:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "01:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday",
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "02:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "22:00"
}
]
}
</script>
How Gas Lamp compares
142 of 192 in Manchester cafes and bars
Top 74% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cheeky Coffee Co. F, Companio F. Just below: The Jane Eyre F, The Tatton F.
| What the top tenth 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 | 95% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 85% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 40% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 25% | yes |
The top tenth is the 20 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Wix 3,255 sites | 58% | 35% | 35.4% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| factory coffee | 52 m | F | no |
| Dear Sailor | 117 m | C | yes |
| Arcane Bar | 138 m | A | yes |
| Starbucks coffee_shop | 163 m | F | no |
| Panacea Manchester | 170 m | F | no |
| Caffè Nero coffee_shop | 177 m | D | no |
| Black Sheep Coffee coffee_shop | 186 m | C | yes |
| Hey Little Cupcake! coffee_shop | 215 m | F | no |
| Be At One | 243 m | A | yes |
| Oxpot Coffee coffee_shop, pastry | 256 m | C | no |
Businesses like Gas Lamp in Manchester cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Manchester cafes and bars | 192 | 50% | 27% | 35.4% |
| Built with Wix in Manchester cafes and bars | 10 | 59% | 30% | 35.4% |
The best of Built with Wix in Manchester cafes and bars
The Eagle B 80% · Bee Orchid Pomona B 78.8% · North Westward Ho B 72.3% · Grounded MCR C 69.2% · Dear Sailor C 64.6%
The climb
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering path at all; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 92.3%: 4th of 192 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 142nd.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
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.
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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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What agents get for Gas Lamp
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-15 found no booking or ordering link on thegaslampmanchester.co.uk or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/thegaslampmanchester.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Mo-Tu 16:00-00:00; We 12:00-00:00; Th 12:00-01:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-02:00; Su 12:00-22:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +44 161 478 1224 |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
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 | yes |
| 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 |
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. Cloudflare's report.
| 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 | yes |
| 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 | no |