The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Austin hairdressers and beauty salons, US

Austin hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

142 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 102 reachable. 28% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 61% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 26 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

142

sites scanned

28%

turn an AI crawler away

61%

book or order on their own domain

26

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F63
C39
B26
D14
Menu or price list
none93
HTML page7
elsewhere2
Direct booking or ordering
own site40
none32
vendor on own site22
third party7
marketplace1
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge29
Block one in robots.txt4
Unreachable from our scanner40

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 102 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.