The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Durban, ZA

Durban in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

32 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 31 of them could be read. 19% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 65% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 14 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.

32

sites scanned

19%

turn an AI crawler away

65%

book or order on their own domain

14

score A or B

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Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
B9
C9
F7
A5
D2
Menu or price list
HTML page20
none7
PDF3
elsewhere1
Direct booking or ordering
own site20
none7
third party4
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge6
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from the scanner1

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 31 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 32 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

Method

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.