--- title: Leeds in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/leeds/2026-10?format=md --- [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 · Leeds, GB # Leeds in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use? 238 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 220 of them could be read. 24% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 66% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 113 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month. 238 sites scanned 24% turn an AI crawler away 66% book or order on their own domain 113 score A or B For October 2026, 238 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 220 reachable and 18 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site grades, 38 scored A, 75 scored B, 58 scored C, 19 scored D, and 48 scored F, meaning 113 sites earned an A or B together, which is 47% of the scanned sites. For bookings or orders, 146 sites take them on their own domain, which is 66% of the reachable sites, while direct booking or ordering on the business's own site happens on 133 sites, through a vendor on the business's own site on 13, only through a marketplace on 6, through an unrecognised third party on 9, and 59 offer no booking or ordering path. Menus or price lists appear as an HTML page on 159 sites, as a PDF on 7, as an image on 1, on another site on 6, and 47 sites have no menu or price list, while 58 sites, which is 24% of the scanned sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge and 12 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-08; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/leeds) · [November 2026 →](https://directindex.org/city/leeds/2026-11) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/leeds/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/leeds/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/leeds/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## How the sites stood at the end of October 2026 Grades | B | 75 | | C | 58 | | F | 48 | | A | 38 | | D | 19 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 159 | | none | 47 | | PDF | 7 | | elsewhere | 6 | | image | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 133 | | none | 59 | | vendor on own site | 13 | | third party | 9 | | marketplace | 6 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 58 | | Block one in robots.txt | 12 | | Unreachable from the scanner | 18 | Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 220 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 238 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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