VCA Cedar Animal Hospital
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Ways to reach VCA Cedar Animal Hospital directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-25. On the business's own site. Report a mistake
3604 Cedar Ave S, 55407, Minneapolis · +16127217431
Places near VCA Cedar Animal Hospital that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open VCA Cedar Animal Hospital'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.
62 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Action test, 2026-10-21: partial, there's a path, but an agent would have trouble with it. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.
Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-23: 78% → 78%
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
Since the scan of 2026-10-23: the findings haven't changed.
Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for "My cat needs a vaccination. Book a vet slot this week" in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets, October 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| My cat needs a vaccination. Book a vet slot this week. | ChatGPT with a link to this site Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-24 |
Every place named in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets, question by question.
Show it
The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/vcahospitals.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/vcahospitals.com.svg" alt="Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“My cat needs a vaccination. Book a vet slot this week.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)
How VCA Cedar Animal Hospital compares
16 of 261 in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets
Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Livewell Animal Hospital B, Loop Dental B. Just below: Westgate Pet Clinic B, Pet Central Animal Hospital B.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 0% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 30% | no |
The top 10% are the 27 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| TruCare Clinic | 1.2 km | C | no |
| Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition | 1.3 km | C | no |
| Satori-Integrative Physical Therapy LLC | 1.3 km | C | yes |
| Southside Life Care Center | 1.5 km | F | no |
| North American Spine | 1.6 km | F | no |
| Greenway Surgical Suites | 1.7 km | D | no |
| Allina Integrated Medical Network | 1.7 km | F | no |
| M Health Fairview Clinic - Smiley's | 1.7 km | F | no |
| Rojas Family Dental | 1.8 km | D | no |
| Nokomis Pet Clinic | 1.8 km | F | no |
Businesses like VCA Cedar Animal Hospital in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets | 261 | 50% | 19% | 77.5% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets
Blue Cross Animal Hospital B 84.6% · City Vets B 84.6% · Downtown Periodontics & Implant Dentistry B 84.6% · Isles Dental B 84.6% · Parkway Dental Center B 84.6%
After the top fixes
With the fix above (No list of services and prices found), the score would be about 86.3%, which would be first of 261 in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets.
This site appears in 24 cities (52 places on vcahospitals.com). All the cities it's in →
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.
What to fix first
- No list of services and prices found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost?' from directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets. 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.
- Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
- Appointments on your own site Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.
Builder: unknown · contact page /cedar/contact-us: nothing new; booking page /cedar/book-an-appointment: phone
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 your builder.
Show the code to paste
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# VCA Cedar Animal Hospital > local business in 3604 Cedar Ave S, 55407, Minneapolis, Minneapolis dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +16127217431. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://vcahospitals.com/cedar/book-an-appointment (on the business's own site) - Order: https://vcahospitals.com/shop (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://www.vcahospitals.com/cedar - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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.
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/vcahospitals.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/vcahospitals.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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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What agents get for VCA Cedar Animal Hospital
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/vcahospitals.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/minneapolis-clinics/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | vcahospitals.com/cedar/book-an-appointment own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-25, not yet tested |
| Order | vcahospitals.com/shop own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-25, not yet tested |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +16127217431 |
Agents and people followed 5 direct links to this business this month (5 by AI agents).
Stable links that count: /go/vcahospitals.com/book, /go/vcahospitals.com/order 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.
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: booking page /cedar/book-an-appointment: phone.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |