VCA MacArthur Animal Hospital
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Order directly: vcahospitals.com/shop/category/vca_master-vca-alldog-medicat on the business's own site
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62 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Action test, 2026-10-14: partial, a path exists but an agent would struggle. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.
Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- No list of services and prices found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost' from directories instead. Add a page with services and prices as text and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# VCA MacArthur Animal Hospital > veterinary care in MacArthur Boulevard Northwest 4832 20007 Washington, Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +1 202-337-0120. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://vcahospitals.com/shop/category/vca_master-vca-alldog-medications-seizuredisorder (on the business's own site) ## Opening hours Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-13:00; Su off ## About - Website: https://vcahospitals.com/macarthur - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
4 of 135 in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets
Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: AtlasVet B, Children's Dentistry of Arlington B. Just below: Bond Vet B, The West Institute Chevy Chase B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 86% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 7% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 86% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 21% | no |
The top tenth is the 14 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palisades Veterinary Clinic | 1.1 km | D | no |
| Dr. Christine Reardon, DMD PC | 2.4 km | F | no |
| Northside Veterinary Clinic | 2.4 km | F | no |
| Cherrydale Veterinary Clinic | 2.5 km | F | no |
| Cherrydale Family Dental | 2.6 km | D | no |
| Caring Dentists | 3.0 km | D | no |
| One Medical | 3.0 km | F | no |
| Caring Hands | 3.0 km | D | no |
| Ideal Dentistry | 3.1 km | C | no |
| Clarendon Family Dentistry | 3.1 km | D | no |
Businesses like VCA MacArthur Animal Hospital in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets | 135 | 39% | 8% | 77.5% |
The best of Same kind in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets
Arlington Animal Hospital B 77.5% · AtlasVet B 77.5% · Children's Dentistry of Arlington B 77.5% · Bond Vet B 73.8% · The West Institute Chevy Chase B 73.4%
The climb
With the fix above (No list of services and prices found) the score would be about 86.3%: first of 135 in Washington, DC dentists, clinics and vets.
This site appears in 9 cities (10 places on vcahospitals.com). Every city it is in →
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 VCA MacArthur Animal Hospital
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/vcahospitals.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington-clinics/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | vcahospitals.com/shop/category/vca_master-vca-alldog-medicat own site | could not verify: partial (2026-10-14) |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-13:00; Su off (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1 202-337-0120 |
Stable links that count: /go/vcahospitals.com/order 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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
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.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
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/vcahospitals.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/vcahospitals.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
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