The Direct Index
Report · dublin cafes bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Whelan’s

whelanslive.com is hard for agents to use.

Menu: www.whelanslive.com/

D
51.2%

33.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No booking or ordering path at all +15 points

    Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. 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 Dublin cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's <head>, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong; add priceRange if you like. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Whelan’s",
  "url": "https://www.whelanslive.com",
  "telephone": "+35314780766",
  "email": "info@whelanslive.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Wexford Street 25",
    "postalCode": "D02 H527",
    "addressLocality": "Dublin"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.336558,
    "longitude": -6.2658753
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://www.whelanslive.com/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Whelan’s

> bar or pub in Wexford Street 25 D02 H527 Dublin, Dublin cafes and bars. Phone +35314780766.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.whelanslive.com/

## About

- Website: https://www.whelanslive.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

201 of 416 in Dublin cafes and bars

Top 48% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Blackrock D, The Bridge 1859 D. Just below: Creed Coffee Roasters D, Fogg Cafe D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain93%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML88%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)93%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt14%no

The top tenth is the 42 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Jar46 mCyes
Barebone62 mByes
Nana's Tea bubble_tea82 mFno
Devitt’s114 mCno
Tucker Reilly's regional160 mFno
Ohana Tiki Bar162 mCyes
Dicey’s Garden170 mCno
Delahunt coffee_shop258 mCyes
Cassidy’s284 mCyes
Café Sol327 mByes
Agent readiness

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.

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 discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
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 businessyes
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.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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Owners

Own this business?

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