The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Austin, US

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

723 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 496 reachable. 38% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 70% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 263 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

723

sites scanned

38%

turn an AI crawler away

70%

book or order on their own domain

263

score A or B

Our scanner reviewed 723 restaurants and fast food websites, finding 496 reachable and 227 unreachable. Across all scanned sites, 263 earned an A or B together, which is 36% of the scanned sites, while individual grades were A 88, B 175, C 120, D 56, and F 284. For menus or price lists, 340 use an HTML page, 33 use a PDF, 13 host them on another site, and 110 have no menu or price list. Among reachable sites, 349 take a direct booking or an order on their own domain, which is 70% of the reachable sites, with 200 on the business's own site, 149 through a vendor on the business's own site, 10 only through a marketplace, 28 through an unrecognised third party, and 109 with no booking or ordering path.

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.

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F284
B175
C120
A88
D56
Menu or price list
HTML page340
none110
PDF33
elsewhere13
Direct booking or ordering
own site200
vendor on own site149
none109
third party28
marketplace10
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge188
Block one in robots.txt10
Unreachable from our scanner227

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 496 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.