--- title: Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh-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)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons, GB # Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 184 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 123 reachable. 33% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 50% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 20 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 184 sites scanned 33% turn an AI crawler away 50% book or order on their own domain 20 score A or B Across the 187 scanned websites of hairdressers and beauty salons, 126 were reachable and 61 were unreachable from our scanner. For online booking or ordering, 40 take requests direct on the business's own site, 23 do so through a vendor on the business's own site, 11 operate only through a marketplace, 9 work through an unrecognised third party, and 43 offer no booking or ordering path. Looking at edge protection, 41 reachable sites, which is 33% of the reachable sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 1 site blocks an AI crawler in robots.txt. Overall performance grades produced 1 site at A, 20 at B, 44 at C, 29 at D, and 93 at F, leaving A or B together at 21, which is 11% of the scanned sites. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh-salons) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh-salons/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh-salons/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh-salons/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 93 | | C | 43 | | D | 28 | | B | 19 | | A | 1 | Menu or price list | none | 116 | | elsewhere | 4 | | HTML page | 2 | | PDF | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 43 | | own site | 40 | | vendor on own site | 22 | | marketplace | 9 | | third party | 9 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 41 | | Block one in robots.txt | 1 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 61 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 123 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. 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