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

Zaffran

zaffran.at is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Zaffran directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: We-Mo 11:30-14:30, 17:30-22:00

Domgasse 6 4020 Linz · +43 732 771083

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Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Zaffran's website. It can read what Zaffran offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

98.2%

63.8 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2024.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

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No English version declared.

Visitors from abroad, and assistants answering in English, read the page as it is.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today" in Linz, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Linz and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-16

Every place named in Linz, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/zaffran.at"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/zaffran.at.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Zaffran compares

Where it stands

5 of 299 in Linz

Top 2% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Mercato A, va bene! Pizzeria Trattoria A. Just below: Asia-Wok China Court A, Herberstein - Die Sushi Bar A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain90%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML77%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours58%yes
Have an llms.txt42%yes

The top 10% are the 31 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%98.2%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Chindia indian639 mFno
Maharaja indian654 mAyes
Chinoiss chinese, indian1.0 kmFno
New Namastey India indian1.0 kmBno
Royal Bombay Palace indian1.1 kmCno
Indian Vibez indian1.3 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Zaffran in Linz

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Linz29952%25%98.2%
Sites built with WordPress in Linz10656%28%98.2%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Linz

Le Jardin A 100% · Herberstein - Die Sushi Bar A 95.4% · OX A 95.4% · Rox Bar & Grill A 86.2% · Burgerista Urfahr B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (robots.txt blocks GPTBot), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 299 in Linz.

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. robots.txt blocks GPTBot +1.2 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. 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 Linz. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /uber-uns/: nothing new; menu page /speisekarte/: 56 prices; booking page /kontakt/: 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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid 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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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score A

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/zaffran.at"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/zaffran.at.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" 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 Zaffran

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/zaffran.at, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/linz/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.zaffran.at/kontakt/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.zaffran.at/speisekarte/ html_pagefrom the scan
HoursWe-Mo 11:30-14:30, 17:30-22:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+43 732 771083

Stable links that count: /go/zaffran.at/book, /go/zaffran.at/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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /speisekarte/: 56 prices.

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.txtyes
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 businessyes