The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-18

Waves Hair Studio

waves.melbourne is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookCallWebsite

Ways to reach Waves Hair Studio directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

365 Drummond St, 3053, Melbourne · +61422145160

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Waves Hair Studio's website. What Waves Hair Studio offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How Waves Hair Studio compares

Where it stands

1,119 of 3,634 in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 31% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Vivi Beauty and Training C, Waterfall Beauty C. Just below: Wild Elements and Co C, Will's Nails - Hair & Beauty Caroline Springs C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML22%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours23%no
Have an llms.txt45%no

The top 10% are the 369 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 11,547 sites65%49%66.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Freedom In Motion18 mFno
Chainsaw Massacre Salon66 mCno
Organika Hair67 mByes
Soma Snctry124 mByes
Madam Frou Frou166 mByes
La Face Beauty Clinic168 mByes
Grown Alchemist247 mByes
Bsharp Barbershop275 mCno
Zowie Evans Hairdressing291 mCyes
Aya Wellness House320 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Waves Hair Studio in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons3,63454%27%66.2%
Sites built with Squarespace in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons41067%47%66.2%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons

Izumi Japanese Massage A 95.4% · Hair Spa Australia A 93.8% · Pure Aesthetics A 93.8% · Studio Skin A 93.8% · Talking Beauty A 93.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Price list of services is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 3,634 in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Price list of services is on another site +5 points

    The link goes to fresha.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact: nothing new; booking page /appointments: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Waves Hair Studio",
  "url": "http://waves.melbourne/",
  "telephone": "+61422145160",
  "address": "365 Drummond St, 3053, Melbourne",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.79704048,
    "longitude": 144.96895859
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.waves.melbourne/appointments",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Waves Hair Studio

> local business in 365 Drummond St, 3053, Melbourne, Melbourne hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +61422145160.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.waves.melbourne/appointments (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.fresha.com/a/waves-melbourne-365-drummond-street-ic4sdfhs/booking?menu=true&amp;pId=1393257&amp;dppub=true

## About

- Website: http://waves.melbourne/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

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

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Waves Hair Studio

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/waves.melbourne, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.waves.melbourne/appointments own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.fresha.com/a/waves-melbourne-365-drummond-street-ic4sdfh externalfrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+61422145160

Stable links that count: /go/waves.melbourne/book, /go/waves.melbourne/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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno