The Mermaid
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0 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level
thing to fix
Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- The site could not be read at all
The fetch failed with cloudflare_challenge.
No one is listed yet to fix this in Los Angeles cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
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498 of 530 in Los Angeles cafes and bars
Top 94% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Hermosillo F, The Honest Abe Cider House & Meadery F. Just below: The Mineshaft F, The New Jalisco Bar F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 26% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 17% | no |
The top tenth is the 53 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tous les Jours | 78 m | C | yes |
| Angel City Brewery | 96 m | F | no |
| Wolf and Crane | 181 m | C | yes |
| Partea NYC bubble_tea | 196 m | C | no |
| Millet Crepe dessert, crepe | 316 m | F | no |
| Miss Cheese bubble_tea | 383 m | F | no |
| Matcha Ren coffee_shop, tea | 482 m | D | no |
| Midori Matcha tea | 493 m | F | no |
| Moroccan Lounge | 501 m | D | no |
| Bar Ama | 871 m | D | no |
Businesses like The Mermaid in Los Angeles cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Los Angeles cafes and bars | 530 | 36% | 18% | 0% |
The best of Same kind in Los Angeles cafes and bars
Cabinet Espresso Bar A 96.3% · Hey Hey A 96.3% · Idle Hour A 95% · Broken Egg Cafe A 93.8% · Four Cafe A 93.8%
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 agents get for The Mermaid
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-14 found no booking or ordering link on themermaid.la or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/themermaid.la, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/los-angeles-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1-213-947-3347 |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
Not measured
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.
| JSON-LD for the business | no |
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/themermaid.la"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/themermaid.la.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
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