--- title: Durban in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/durban/2026-10 --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Numbers](https://directindex.org/stats)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) 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. These are the final numbers for the month. 32 sites scanned 19% turn an AI crawler away 65% book or order on their own domain 14 score A or B During October 2026, 32 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 31 reachable and 1 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at access rules, 6 sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 19% of the scanned sites, while 2 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For menus and price lists, 20 appear as an HTML page, 3 as a PDF, 1 on another site, and 7 sites have no menu or price list. Regarding guest interaction, 20 sites take direct booking or ordering on the business's own domain, which is 65% of the reachable sites, while 4 use an unrecognised third party and 7 offer no booking or ordering path. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-01; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/durban) · [November 2026 →](https://directindex.org/city/durban/2026-11) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/durban/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/durban/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/durban/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## How the sites stood at the end of October 2026 Grades | B | 9 | | C | 9 | | F | 7 | | A | 5 | | D | 2 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 20 | | none | 7 | | PDF | 3 | | elsewhere | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 20 | | none | 7 | | third party | 4 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 6 | | Block one in robots.txt | 2 | | 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 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. 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