The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Cologne, DE

Cologne in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

1,126 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 872 reachable. 31% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 36% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 245 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,126

sites scanned

31%

turn an AI crawler away

36%

book or order on their own domain

245

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F438
D248
C195
B169
A76
Menu or price list
HTML page384
none325
PDF100
on the page51
elsewhere10
image2
Direct booking or ordering
none454
own site280
marketplace58
third party46
vendor on own site34
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge269
Block one in robots.txt18
Unreachable from our scanner254

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 872 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.