# Van Da: Agent-Direct Score C (68.2%) Site: http://www.vanda.nyc/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/vanda.nyc Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Van Da is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Van Da's website. It can read what Van Da offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://www.vanda.nyc/take-away-1 (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.vanda.nyc/fullmenu - Phone: +19179944781 - Address: 234 E 4th St, 10009-7419, New York ## Nearby, also direct Places near Van Da that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - V-Nam Cafe (420 m): https://directindex.org/r/vnamcafe.com - Love Mama (810 m): https://directindex.org/r/lovemamanyc.com - Indochine (1 km): https://directindex.org/r/indochinenyc.com ## What to fix first - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **Booking only through resy.** (no points, but worth doing) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business - **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows +6221123456789, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +19179944781. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org. ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Van Da > organization (vietnamese) in 234 E 4th St, 10009-7419, New York, New York. Phone +19179944781. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://www.vanda.nyc/take-away-1 (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://www.vanda.nyc/fullmenu ## About - Website: http://www.vanda.nyc/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 3960 of 11000 in New York. Top 36% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% 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 | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches (D, 224 m, https://directindex.org/r/nickyssandwiches.com); V-Nam Cafe (C, 417 m, https://directindex.org/r/vnamcafe.com); Saigon Social (D, 498 m, https://directindex.org/r/saigonsocialnyc.com); Cloud Vietnamese (F, 547 m, https://directindex.org/r/cloudvietnamesenyc.com); Mộc Mạc (F, 633 m, https://directindex.org/r/mocmacnyc.com); Madame Vo (B, 699 m, https://directindex.org/r/madamevo.com); Sao Mai (B, 765 m, https://directindex.org/r/saomainyc.com); Love Mama (C, 813 m, https://directindex.org/r/lovemamanyc.com); An Choi (F, 876 m, https://directindex.org/r/anchoinyc.com); Indochine (A, 1019 m, https://directindex.org/r/indochinenyc.com). ## What assistants answer 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. The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Van Da wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 32150 sites); Sites using Resy 67% (44% A or B, 2728 sites); This site 68.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/vanda.nyc/agent-view ## Businesses like Van Da in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11000 | 52% | 34% | 68.2% | | Sites built with Squarespace in New York | 1237 | 70% | 52% | 68.2% | | Sites using Resy in New York | 957 | 68% | 45% | 68.2% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York | 314 | 68% | 43% | 68.2% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York: Cross Road BK (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/crossroadbk.com); L'Antagoniste (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/lantagoniste.com); Barrio Chino (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/barriochinony.com); Concrete (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/concrete-brooklyn.com); Daddies (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/daddiesnyc.com). With the three fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 92.3%. That would be 691st of 11,000 in New York, up from 3960th. ## The direct record What agents get for Van Da, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/vanda.nyc - Book: none on record - Order: https://www.vanda.nyc/take-away-1 (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Menu: https://www.vanda.nyc/fullmenu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +19179944781 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/vanda.nyc/order, https://directindex.org/go/vanda.nyc/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - 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 Found one hop past the home page: menu page /fullmenu: business JSON-LD, phone. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 13.3 | 25 | | Readable | 16 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/vanda.nyc - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/vanda.nyc/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/vanda.nyc/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=vanda.nyc&force=1