Halifax in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
120 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 111 of them could be read. 21% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 52% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 48 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
Out of 120 restaurants and fast food websites scanned for October 2026, 111 were reachable and 9 were unreachable from our scanner. In terms of overall performance, 48 sites earned an A or B together, which is 40% of the scanned sites, while 6 received an A, 42 a B, 20 a C, 19 a D, and 33 an F. For menus and pricing, 69 offer an HTML page, 5 use a PDF, 1 has it on the page itself, 1 is on another site, and 35 have no menu or price list. Regarding guest reservations and purchases, 58 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 52% of the reachable sites, while 39 handle this on the business's own site, 19 operate through a vendor on the business's own site, 10 go through an unrecognised third party, 5 run only through a marketplace, and 38 offer no booking or ordering path.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-29; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 42 |
| F | 33 |
| C | 20 |
| D | 19 |
| A | 6 |
| HTML page | 69 |
| none | 35 |
| 5 | |
| elsewhere | 1 |
| on the page | 1 |
| own site | 39 |
| none | 38 |
| vendor on own site | 19 |
| third party | 10 |
| marketplace | 5 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 25 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 2 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 9 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 111 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 120 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
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.