--- title: Birmingham in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/birmingham/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, GB # Birmingham in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 377 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 261 reachable. 34% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 65% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 135 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 377 sites scanned 34% turn an AI crawler away 65% book or order on their own domain 135 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 381 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned, with 263 reachable and 118 unreachable from our scanner. Across the reachable sites, 92 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 35% of the reachable sites, while 8 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Looking at direct customer actions, 171 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 65% of the reachable sites, alongside 152 that take booking or ordering on the business's own site, 19 through a vendor on the business's own site, 8 only through a marketplace, 11 through an unrecognised third party, and 73 with no booking or ordering path. Menus and price lists appear as an HTML page on 175 sites, as a PDF on 12, on another site on 8, on the page itself on 1, and 67 show no menu or price list, contributing to grades of 43 A, 93 B, 65 C, 30 D, and 150 F, where 136 earn A or B together, which is 36% of the scanned sites. 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/birmingham) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/birmingham/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/birmingham/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/birmingham/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 148 | | B | 92 | | C | 64 | | A | 43 | | D | 30 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 174 | | none | 66 | | PDF | 12 | | elsewhere | 8 | | on the page | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 150 | | none | 73 | | vendor on own site | 19 | | third party | 11 | | marketplace | 8 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 90 | | Block one in robots.txt | 8 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 116 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 261 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. 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