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

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

152 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 106 reachable. 28% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 58% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 21 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

152

sites scanned

28%

turn an AI crawler away

58%

book or order on their own domain

21

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 152 business websites were scanned, with 106 reachable and 46 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at accessibility for automated tools, 30 reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 28% of the reachable sites, while 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. When customers want to arrange services, 61 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 58% of the reachable sites, including 36 on the business's own site direct, 25 through a vendor on the business's own site, 3 only through a marketplace, 7 through an unrecognised third party, and 35 with no booking or ordering path. Across the overall results, grades were A for 2, B for 19, C for 46, D for 22, and F for 63, meaning A or B together totaled 21, which is 14% 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.

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F63
C46
D22
B19
A2
Menu or price list
none96
HTML page8
elsewhere1
image1
Direct booking or ordering
own site36
none35
vendor on own site25
third party7
marketplace3
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge30
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from our scanner46

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 106 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.