--- title: Cologne hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/cologne-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)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Cologne hairdressers and beauty salons, DE # Cologne hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 287 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 203 reachable. 37% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 28% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 22 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 287 sites scanned 37% turn an AI crawler away 28% book or order on their own domain 22 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 287 hairdressers and beauty salons websites were scanned, with 203 reachable and 84 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at evaluation grades across the scanned sites, 1 site received an A, 21 received a B, 58 received a C, 52 received a D, and 155 received an F, meaning 22 sites earned an A or B together, which is 8% of the scanned sites. Among the reachable sites, 76 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 37% of the reachable sites, while 7 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding direct booking or ordering, 57 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 28% of the reachable sites, whereas 49 offer booking or ordering on the business's own site, 8 do so through a vendor on the business's own site, 11 operate only through a marketplace, 18 go through an unrecognised third party, and 117 have no booking or ordering path. Für den Monat Oktober 2026 wurden 287 Websites von Friseuren und Kosmetiksalons gescannt, von denen 203 erreichbar und 84 von unserem Scanner aus nicht erreichbar waren. Bei den Noten gab es 1 mal A, 21 mal B, 58 mal C, 52 mal D und 155 mal F, womit A oder B zusammen auf 22 Websites und damit 8% der gescannten Websites entfallen. Bei den erreichbaren Seiten weisen 76 Websites oder 37% mindestens einen KI Crawler an der Edge ab, während 7 Websites einen KI Crawler in der robots.txt blockieren. Eine Buchung oder Bestellung direkt auf der eigenen Website des Unternehmens bieten 49 an, über einen Anbieter auf der eigenen Website des Unternehmens 8, was zusammen 57 Websites oder 28% der erreichbaren Seiten mit Buchung oder Bestellung auf der eigenen Domain entspricht, während 11 dies nur über einen Marktplatz ermöglichen, 18 über unerkannte Drittanbieter laufen und 117 keinen solchen Pfad haben. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-14; 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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