The Sun
thesuncarshalton.com is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of The Sun, so they rely on what other sites say about it.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Book directly: bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=65b3b60789b21621442 through designmynight acting for the business · Order directly: order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/the-sun-carshalton through toast acting for the business · Menu: thesuncarshalton.com/menus/
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17 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level
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 site could not be read at all. new The site turned every visitor without a browser away; No structured data for the business.
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.
How The Sun compares
1,942 of 2,439 in London cafes and bars
Top 80% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Cup+Lid F, Hemingford Arms F. Just below: Wild Bean Cafe F, Fitz's F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 98% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 69% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 12% | no |
The top tenth is the 244 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 36,926 sites | 58% | 29% | 26.2% |
| Sites using DesignMyNight 44 sites | 67% | 34% | 26.2% |
| Sites using Toast 1,884 sites | 74% | 63% | 26.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hope | 200 m | F | no |
| The Greyhound | 248 m | C | no |
| JJ Café | 307 m | D | no |
| Dotty's Teahouse | 396 m | B | yes |
| The Windsor Castle | 590 m | B | no |
| Mad Coffee Bar coffee_shop | 1.5 km | B | yes |
| Drop Project Brewing | 2.7 km | C | no |
| Jolly Farmers | 4.6 km | A | yes |
Businesses like The Sun in London cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars | 2,439 | 53% | 38% | 26.2% |
| Sites built with WordPress in London cafes and bars | 744 | 65% | 46% | 26.2% |
| Sites using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars | 37 | 66% | 30% | 26.2% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars | 26 | 67% | 31% | 26.2% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress and using DesignMyNight in London cafes and bars
The Oyster Shed A 95.4% · Duke's Head A 92.3% · Halfway House A 92.3% · The Leather Bottle A 87.7% · The Union Bar & Grill B 83.1%
The climb
With the two fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 228th of 2,439 in London cafes and bars, up from 1942nd.
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 to fix first
- The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points
A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it
- 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
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in London cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking through designmynight on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.
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": "The Sun",
"url": "https://www.thesuncarshalton.com/",
"telephone": "+44 20 8773 4549",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "North Street 4",
"postalCode": "SM5 2HU"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 51.367124,
"longitude": -0.1641978
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-24:00; Su 12:00-22:30",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "23:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday",
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "24:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "22:30"
}
],
"acceptsReservations": "https://bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=65b3b60789b216214425d1d1&source=partner",
"hasMenu": "https://thesuncarshalton.com/menus/",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=65b3b60789b216214425d1d1&source=partner",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
},
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/the-sun-carshalton",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thesuncarshalton.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thesuncarshalton.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.
Show the details
What agents get for The Sun
The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/thesuncarshalton.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | bookings.designmynight.com/book?venue_id=65b3b60789b21621442 vendor on own site: DesignMyNight | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Order | order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/the-sun-carshalton vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Menu | thesuncarshalton.com/menus/ html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-24:00; Su 12:00-22:30 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +44 20 8773 4549 |
Stable links that count: /go/thesuncarshalton.com/book, /go/thesuncarshalton.com/order, /go/thesuncarshalton.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.
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 | no |
| 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 Toast | yes |
| Vendor terms for agents DesignMyNight, read | Not stated |
The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About DesignMyNight · all vendors.
Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.
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 |