The Direct Index
Report · Ottawa · scanned 2026-10-16

Tavern on the Island

thetavern.ca is largely invisible to agents.

AI assistants cannot open the website of Tavern on the Island, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Menu: www.thetavern.ca/_files/ugd/7792b8_bd224031da1640488e62b3429

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6.2%

4 of 65 points available

–

agent-readiness level

4

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.

Assistants

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.

Where it stands

How Tavern on the Island compares

Where it stands

469 of 504 in Ottawa

Top 93% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Roulas F, Ottawa Bagelshop and Deli F. Just below: Aroy Thai F, Nostalgica Pub & Beer Garden F.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain96%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours37%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top tenth is the 52 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 5,296 sites51%26%6.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Newport italian1.6 kmByes
KHAO thai1.7 kmDyes
House of Pizza pizza1.7 kmCno
Caffe Mio italian1.7 kmByes
Stofa1.8 kmByes
Chungchun Rice Dog1.8 kmCno
Supply and Demand seafood1.8 kmCyes
The Wellington Gastropub regional1.8 kmCyes
Ottawa Bagelshop and Deli bagel1.8 kmFno
Parma Ravioli italian1.9 kmFyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Tavern on the Island in Ottawa

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa50454%35%6.2%
Sites built with Wix in Ottawa4356%30%6.2%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Ottawa

Grounded A 100% · Khao Thai A 100% · Amberwood Lounge & Eatery A 95.4% · Made In Chicago Pizza A 95.4% · Gitanes A 92.3%

The climb

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website) the score would be about 90.8%: 26th of 504 in Ottawa, up from 469th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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

  2. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  3. No booking or ordering link on the website +15 points

    Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  4. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Ottawa. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wix · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wix is in the guides.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Tavern on the Island",
  "url": "https://www.thetavern.ca/tavern-on-the-island",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Island Park Drive 50",
    "postalCode": "K2B 5L7",
    "addressLocality": "Ottawa"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.4092512,
    "longitude": -75.755026
  },
  "openingHours": "Fr 12:00-22:00; Sa 11:00-22:00; Su 11:00-21:00; Mo 12:00-21:00; Tu 12:00-21:00; We 12:00-21:30; Th 12:00-21:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.thetavern.ca/_files/ugd/7792b8_bd224031da1640488e62b342913e7644.pdf"
}
</script>
Owners

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.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR once. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thetavern.ca"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thetavern.ca.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Tavern on the Island

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/thetavern.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/ottawa/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.thetavern.ca/_files/ugd/7792b8_bd224031da1640488e62b3429 pdffrom the scan
HoursFr 12:00-22:00; Sa 11:00-22:00; Su 11:00-21:00; Mo 12:00-21:00; Tu 12:00-21:00; We 12:00-21:30; Th 12:00-21:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/thetavern.ca/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.

Transactable

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
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

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 businessno