The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Leeds cafes and bars, GB

Leeds cafes and bars in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

180 cafe and bar and pub websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 169 of them could be read. 18% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 56% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 66 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.

180

sites scanned

18%

turn an AI crawler away

56%

book or order on their own domain

66

score A or B

Across the 180 cafe and bar websites scanned, 169 were reachable and 11 were unreachable from our scanner. Looking at overall performance, 26 earned an A grade, 40 received a B, 48 received a C, 33 earned a D, 33 were graded F, and the 66 sites with an A or B together make up 37% of the scanned sites. For customer menus and price lists, 83 sites present an HTML page, 21 use a PDF, 1 uses an image, 1 links to another site, and 63 have no menu or price list. Regarding reservations and sales, 94 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 56% of the reachable sites, while 82 handle this direct on the business's own site, 12 use a vendor on the business's own site, 4 use only through a marketplace, 7 operate through an unrecognised third party, and 64 offer no booking or ordering path.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-05; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
C48
B40
D33
F33
A26
Menu or price list
HTML page83
none63
PDF21
elsewhere1
image1
Direct booking or ordering
own site82
none64
vendor on own site12
third party7
marketplace4
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge33
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from the scanner11

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 169 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 180 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.