The Direct Index
Report · Christchurch cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-13

The Loft Bar

theloftbar.nz is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Loft Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 12:00–00:00

Cashel Street 93 8011 · +64 3 365 5638

Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Loft Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open The Loft Bar's website. It can read what The Loft Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

2

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.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?" in Christchurch cafes and bars, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Christchurch cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-11-14

Every place named in Christchurch cafes and bars, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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Assistants

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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Loft Bar compares

Where it stands

79 of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars

Top 29% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Elmwood Trading Company B, The Last Word B. Just below: The Publican B, The Turf B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours18%no
Have an llms.txt43%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Webflow 10,557 sites56%22%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Whiskey Fiddle31 mCyes
The Little Fiddle36 mCyes
The Bangalore Polo Club43 mDno
The Craft Embassy59 mCyes
Botanic Christchurch61 mByes
Fat Eddie's78 mCyes
Fulla Beanz79 mDno
Kong83 mByes
The Gaslight Taverna101 mFno
Robert Harris coffee_shop105 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Loft Bar in Christchurch cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Christchurch cafes and bars27258%38%73.8%
Sites built with Webflow in Christchurch cafes and bars1163%55%73.8%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 2nd of 272 in Christchurch cafes and bars, up from 79th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Christchurch cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: webflow · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /menus: nothing new; booking page /book-now: booking via nowbookit · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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