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title: Hamburg in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/hamburg/2026-10?format=md
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# Hamburg in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

2,168 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 1,710 reachable. 35% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 30% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 389 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

2,168

sites scanned

35%

turn an AI crawler away

30%

book or order on their own domain

389

score A or B

Out of 2327 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 1827 were reachable and 500 were unreachable from our scanner. Looking at the results, 128 sites earned grade A, 296 earned B, 484 earned C, 516 earned D, and 903 earned F, meaning 424 sites or 18% of the scanned sites received an A or B together. Among the reachable sites, 653 or 36% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 27 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For guests looking to plan a meal, 549 sites or 30% of the reachable sites take a direct booking or order on their own domain, 125 offer this only through a marketplace, 72 work through a vendor on the business's own site, 73 use an unrecognised third party, and 1080 provide no booking or ordering path.

Für Oktober 2026 wurden 2327 Websites erfasst, von denen 1827 erreichbar und 500 nicht erreichbar waren. Bei den Noten gab es A 128, B 296, C 484, D 516 und F 903, womit A oder B zusammen 424 und damit 18% der gescannten Seiten ausmachen. Von den erreichbaren Seiten weisen 653 oder 36% mindestens einen AI Crawler ab, während 27 Seiten einen AI Crawler in der robots.txt blockieren. Eine Speisekarte oder Preisliste findet sich bei 743 als HTML Seite, bei 252 als PDF, bei 98 auf der Seite selbst, bei 28 auf einer anderen Seite, bei 3 als Bild und bei 703 gar nicht.

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.

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 Findings

## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades

| F | 836 |
| D | 487 |
| C | 456 |
| B | 272 |
| A | 117 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 692 |
| none | 658 |
| PDF | 239 |
| on the page | 91 |
| elsewhere | 27 |
| image | 3 |

Direct booking or ordering

| none | 1,021 |
| own site | 437 |
| marketplace | 119 |
| vendor on own site | 70 |
| third party | 63 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 591 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 25 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 458 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 1,710 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](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [the live index](https://directindex.org/city/hamburg) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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