The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Austin cafes and bars, US

Austin cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

241 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 175 reachable. 36% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 51% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 60 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

241

sites scanned

36%

turn an AI crawler away

51%

book or order on their own domain

60

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F98
C49
B40
D34
A20
Menu or price list
HTML page82
none69
PDF16
elsewhere7
on the page1
Direct booking or ordering
none68
own site50
vendor on own site39
third party16
marketplace2
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge63
Block one in robots.txt3
Unreachable from our scanner66

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 175 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. Methodology · the live index · all cities.