Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
31 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 30 of them could be read. 6% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 37% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 5 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
For October 2026, 31 websites of hairdressers and beauty salons were scanned, with 30 reachable and 1 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site features, 2 websites have a menu or price list as an HTML page, while 28 have no menu or price list. For appointments, 9 allow booking or ordering direct on the business's own site, 2 offer this through a vendor on the business's own site, 1 functions only through a marketplace, 7 work through an unrecognised third party, and 11 have no booking or ordering path. Across all scanned sites, 2 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 6% of the scanned sites, 0 block an AI crawler in robots.txt, 11 take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 37% of the reachable sites, and the grades include A 0, B 5, C 12, D 8, and F 6, with A or B together at 5, which is 16% of the scanned sites.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-04; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| C | 12 |
| D | 8 |
| F | 6 |
| B | 5 |
| none | 28 |
| HTML page | 2 |
| none | 11 |
| own site | 9 |
| third party | 7 |
| vendor on own site | 2 |
| marketplace | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 2 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 30 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 31 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.