--- title: Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/birmingham-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 · 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, 69 reachable. 33% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 48% 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 48% book or order on their own domain 12 score A or B For October 2026 so far, we scanned 97 websites of hairdressers and beauty salons, finding 69 reachable and 28 unreachable from our scanner. Among the reachable sites, 33 take a booking or an order direct on their own domain, which is 48% of the reachable sites, while 26 offer booking or ordering on the business's own site, 7 through a vendor on the business's own site, 6 only through a marketplace, 5 through an unrecognised third party, and 25 have no booking or ordering path. Looking at content and access, 3 sites present a menu or price list as an HTML page while 66 have no menu or price list, 23 reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 33% of the reachable sites, and 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Overall, 0 sites earned an A grade, 12 received a B, 21 a C, 11 a D, and 53 an F, leaving 12 sites with an A or B together, which is 12% of the scanned sites. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. 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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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