--- title: Antwerp hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-salons/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Antwerp hairdressers and beauty salons, BE # Antwerp hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 77 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 43 reachable. 28% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 47% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 9 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 77 sites scanned 28% turn an AI crawler away 47% book or order on their own domain 9 score A or B Out of 91 scanned websites for hairdressers and beauty salons, 51 were reachable and 40 were unreachable from our scanner. Among the reachable sites, 15 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 29% of the reachable sites, while 1 blocks an AI crawler in robots.txt. For appointments and purchases, 21 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, representing 41% of the reachable sites, with 20 offering booking or ordering on the business's own site, 7 only through a marketplace, 6 through an unrecognised third party, 1 through a vendor on the business's own site, and 17 providing no booking or ordering path. Looking at overall performance, 10 sites received an A or B together, which is 11% of the scanned sites, alongside 2 with an A, 8 with a B, 24 with a C, 6 with a D, and 51 with an F. Pour le mois d'octobre 2026, 91 sites web de coiffeurs et salons de beauté ont été analysés, parmi lesquels 51 étaient accessibles et 40 inaccessibles pour notre outil. Parmi les sites accessibles, 15 bloquent au moins un robot d'IA à la périphérie, ce qui représente 29% des sites accessibles, tandis que 1 site bloque un robot d'IA dans son fichier robots.txt. Concernant les réservations ou les commandes, 21 sites permettent une démarche direct sur leur propre domaine, soit 41% des sites accessibles, alors que 7 passent uniquement par une place de marché, 6 par un tiers non reconnu, 1 par un fournisseur sur le site du business, et 17 ne proposent aucun parcours. Enfin, 10 sites obtiennent la note A ou B, ce qui correspond à 11% des sites analysés, avec une répartition totale de 2 notes A, 8 notes B, 24 notes C, 6 notes D et 51 notes F, tandis que 42 sites ne présentent ni carte ni liste de prix, 4 les affichent sur la page elle-même, 3 sur un autre site et 2 sous la forme d'une page HTML. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-salons) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-salons/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-salons/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/antwerp-salons/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 42 | | C | 22 | | B | 7 | | D | 4 | | A | 2 | Menu or price list | none | 35 | | elsewhere | 3 | | on the page | 3 | | HTML page | 2 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 19 | | none | 12 | | marketplace | 6 | | third party | 5 | | vendor on own site | 1 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 12 | | Block one in robots.txt | 1 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 34 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 43 reachable sites. Method ## How this page is made Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. 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