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

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

177 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 130 reachable. 25% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 64% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 29 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

177

sites scanned

25%

turn an AI crawler away

64%

book or order on their own domain

29

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F71
C54
B27
D23
A2
Menu or price list
none119
HTML page7
elsewhere4
Direct booking or ordering
own site49
none34
vendor on own site34
third party10
marketplace3
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge33
Block one in robots.txt3
Unreachable from our scanner47

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 130 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.