Liverpool in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
112 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 104 of them could be read. 13% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 68% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 54 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
Across October 2026 so far, 112 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 104 reachable and 8 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at overall performance, grades were A for 19, B for 35, C for 27, D for 9, and F for 22, meaning 54 sites or 48% received an A or B together. For menus and prices, 77 provide an HTML page, 3 use a PDF, 1 relies on another site, and 23 display no menu or price list. Regarding reservations and sales, 71 sites or 68% of reachable sites take a booking or order direct on their own domain, comprising 59 on the business's own site and 12 through a vendor on the business's own site, while 4 use only a marketplace, 1 goes through an unrecognised third party, 28 have no booking or ordering path, 15 sites or 13% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, and 1 blocks an AI crawler in robots.txt.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-25; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| B | 35 |
| C | 27 |
| F | 22 |
| A | 19 |
| D | 9 |
| HTML page | 77 |
| none | 23 |
| 3 | |
| elsewhere | 1 |
| own site | 59 |
| none | 28 |
| vendor on own site | 12 |
| marketplace | 4 |
| third party | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 15 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 1 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 8 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 104 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 112 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.