# The Jolly Botanist: Agent-Direct Score F (0%)

Site: https://thejollybotanist.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thejollybotanist.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Jolly Botanist's website could not be reached by the scanner on 2026-10-15 (http 403). Rescans are free.
AI assistants cannot open the website of The Jolly Botanist, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 131 229 5538

## What to fix first
- **The site could not be read at all.** The server refuses the request outright, which usually means a firewall rule aimed at bots. A real browser was tried as well and got http_403.

## Already right
- Nothing.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then)
- Fixed: No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering path at all; No llms.txt
- New: The site could not be read at all

## Where it stands
352 of 364 in Edinburgh cafes and bars. Top 97% of the sites scanned in this index.

| 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 | 78% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 89% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 38% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 24% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Old Pal (D, 79 m, https://directindex.org/r/oldpal.co.uk); Milk Cafe (B, 97 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafemilk.co.uk); The Wee Vault Taproom (B, 147 m, https://directindex.org/r/vaultcity.co.uk); Throat Punch Coffee Co (D, 203 m, https://directindex.org/r/throatpunch.co.uk); AMT Coffee (C, 211 m, https://directindex.org/r/amtcoffee.co.uk); Marcos Pool Hall and Pizza Bar (B, 311 m, https://directindex.org/r/uk.com); The Voyage of Buck (D, 391 m, https://directindex.org/r/thevoyageofbuckedinburgh.co.uk); The Green Room (B, 402 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegreenroomedinburgh.co.uk); The Fox and Faun (C, 407 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefoxandfaun.co.uk); Hank's (C, 458 m, https://directindex.org/r/hanks.catering).

## What assistants answer
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.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 58% (29% A or B, 36926 sites); This site 0%.

## Businesses like The Jolly Botanist in Edinburgh cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 364 | 50% | 30% | 0% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh cafes and bars | 119 | 63% | 45% | 0% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh cafes and bars: Badger & Co (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/badgerandco.com); Element (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/elementedinburgh.co.uk); The Huxley (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/thehuxley.co.uk); the basement (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/basement-bar-edinburgh.co.uk); Boom Battle Bar (A 85%, https://directindex.org/r/boombattlebar.com).

## The direct record
What agents get for The Jolly Botanist, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thejollybotanist.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +44 131 229 5538

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 30 |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thejollybotanist.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/thejollybotanist.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thejollybotanist.co.uk&force=1