The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons, GB

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

97 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 67 reachable. 33% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 46% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 12 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

97

sites scanned

33%

turn an AI crawler away

46%

book or order on their own domain

12

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F53
C21
B12
D11
Menu or price list
none64
HTML page3
Direct booking or ordering
none25
own site24
vendor on own site7
marketplace6
third party5
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge22
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from our scanner30

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 67 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.