The Local
thelocal.bar is partly visible to agents.
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
44 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
- Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. 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
- Structured data is incomplete +2 points
Missing: telephone. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Hamburg 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.
- Structured data present (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
Builder: squarespace · 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 squarespace is in the guides.
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": "The Local",
"url": "https://www.thelocal.bar/",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 53.5576316,
"longitude": 9.954897
}
}
</script>
151 of 795 in Hamburg cafes and bars
Top 19% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Novomio C, Park Café Planten un Blomen C. Just below: Theatercafé & Bistro C, Ti Breizh C.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 86% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 60% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 35% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 35% | yes |
The top tenth is the 81 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 6,916 sites | 64% | 46% | 67.7% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hummel & Quiddje | 280 m | C | no |
| Café Winklers | 318 m | C | no |
| GegenVind | 487 m | C | no |
| kiosque. | 522 m | F | no |
| Tortuga Bar | 545 m | F | no |
| clockers BAR St. Pauli | 546 m | C | no |
| Cantina 33 | 550 m | F | no |
| The Walrus Bar | 555 m | D | yes |
| Aalhaus | 557 m | D | no |
| Taugenichts Bar | 557 m | C | yes |
Businesses like The Local in Hamburg cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Hamburg cafes and bars | 795 | 43% | 16% | 67.7% |
| Built with Squarespace in Hamburg cafes and bars | 18 | 66% | 28% | 67.7% |
The best of Built with Squarespace in Hamburg cafes and bars
Instinct Coffee A 87.5% · Là Phin A 87.5% · The Irishman Hamburg B 77.5% · Haus 73 B 76.9% · Ricklinger Landbrauerei "Zur Alten Försterei" B 76.3%
The climb
With the three fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 3rd of 795 in Hamburg cafes and bars, up from 151st.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
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 | 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
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thelocal.bar"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thelocal.bar.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.