The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

Hennessey's Bar

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Ways to reach Hennessey's Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

30-31 Allison St, B5 5TJ, Birmingham · +441216433436

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Places near Hennessey's Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Hennessey's Bar's website. What Hennessey's Bar offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

69.2%

45 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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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?" and "A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six" in Birmingham cafes and bars, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Birmingham cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-11-03
A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-11-03

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Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)
“A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Hennessey's Bar compares

Where it stands

120 of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars

Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Castle & Falcon C, Faculty Coffee C. Just below: Pollers Cafe and Sandwich Bar C, Sol Bistro C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)88%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours46%no
Have an llms.txt20%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 236,086 sites55%25%69.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Nortons86 mAyes
BRIG Café at The Warehouse coffee_shop, international, cake96 mCno
Kilder113 mByes
Arabica Cafe192 mDno
Nespresso Boutique196 mCyes
Bull Ring Tavern206 mCno
subside221 mFno
Centenary Lounge233 mAyes
RedCorc Bar271 mFno
Mee Cha274 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hennessey's Bar in Birmingham cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars48848%24%69.2%
Sites built with WordPress in Birmingham cafes and bars13960%32%69.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 120th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

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

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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 Birmingham cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; booking page /book-table/: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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