The Direct Index
Report · Oxford cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Raoul's

raoulsbar.com is mostly ready for agents.

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Ways to reach Raoul's directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Sun 16:00–01:00

Walton Street 32 OX2 6AA Oxford

Nearby, also direct

Places near Raoul's 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 Raoul's's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

78.5%

51 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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 Gemini for "Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four" and "A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?" in Oxford cafes and bars, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Oxford cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22

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Named by 1 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:
“Good cocktails tonight, and I want to reserve a table for four.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
“A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Raoul's compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Oxford cafes and bars

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

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 HTML89%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%no
Have an llms.txt50%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 33,756 sites61%41%78.5%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Raoul's in Oxford cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace in Oxford cafes and bars1961%42%78.5%
Findings

What to fix first

  1. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. How to fix it

  3. Structured data is incomplete +2 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  4. 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

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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.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /contact: nothing new; booking page /bookings: booking via designmynight · What to paste

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