The Direct Index
Report · Los Angeles · scanned 2026-10-15

Cicada Restaurant and Lounge

cicadarestaurant.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookMenuCallWebsite

The direct ways to reach Cicada Restaurant and Lounge, no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-15. On the business's own site. Something wrong? Tell us

South Olive Street 617 90014 Los Angeles · +1 213-488-9488

Owners

The website, graded

AI assistants cannot open the website of Cicada Restaurant and Lounge, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

56.9%

37 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

1

thing to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new The site turned every visitor without a browser away.

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2023.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Los Angeles, 70% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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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.

Asked 12 everyday questions about Los Angeles, the assistants named 95 places; Cicada Restaurant and Lounge was not among them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Cicada Restaurant and Lounge compares

Where it stands

800 of 1,438 in Los Angeles

Top 56% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Chi Dynasty C, Church's Chicken C. Just below: Dairy Queen C, Elf Café C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours46%yes
Have an llms.txt20%no

The top tenth is the 144 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 7,935 sites49%23%56.9%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Q sushi136 mCyes
Water Grill157 mCyes
Rosemary Grill mediterranean159 mByes
HH Brazilian Steakhouse steak_house, brazilian166 mAyes
Sultan Chicken Restaurant chicken240 mFno
Full Arepas266 mByes
Carl's Jr. burger333 mAyes
The Counter burger335 mByes
DISTRICT337 mCyes
Uncle John's Cafe american, chinese, vietnamese339 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cicada Restaurant and Lounge in Los Angeles

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Los Angeles1,43853%39%56.9%
Sites built with Wix in Los Angeles7359%36%56.9%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Los Angeles

Soban A 95.4% · Tuscan Son A 95.4% · 123 Pho A 92.3% · El Gringo A 90.8% · Granville A 90.8%

The climb

With the fix above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included) the score would be about 95.4%: 22nd of 1,438 in Los Angeles, up from 800th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Los Angeles. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wix · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR 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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Agent-Direct Score C

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Cicada Restaurant and Lounge

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/cicadarestaurant.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/los-angeles/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.cicadarestaurant.com/calendar own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.cicadarestaurant.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1 213-488-9488

Stable links that count: /go/cicadarestaurant.com/book, /go/cicadarestaurant.com/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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

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. Cloudflare's report.

JSON-LD for the businessyes