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title: London hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/london-salons/2026-10
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 Monthly snapshot · London hairdressers and beauty salons, GB

# London hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

1,016 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 663 reachable. 39% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 57% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 144 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,016

sites scanned

39%

turn an AI crawler away

57%

book or order on their own domain

144

score A or B

Across London, our scanner checked 1016 websites for each business, finding 663 reachable and 353 unreachable. Among the reachable sites, 260 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 39% of the reachable sites, while 19 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For appointments, 379 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, representing 57% of the reachable sites, with 293 taking direct requests on the business's own site, 86 using a vendor on the business's own site, 72 relying only through a marketplace, 42 going through an unrecognised third party, and 170 offering no booking or ordering path. Looking at overall performance, grades sit at 8 A, 136 B, 220 C, 149 D, and 503 F, meaning 144 sites earn an A or B together, which is 14% of the scanned sites.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-16; 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 | 503 |
| C | 220 |
| D | 149 |
| B | 136 |
| A | 8 |

Menu or price list

| none | 594 |
| elsewhere | 37 |
| HTML page | 29 |
| PDF | 2 |
| on the page | 1 |

Direct booking or ordering

| own site | 293 |
| none | 170 |
| vendor on own site | 86 |
| marketplace | 72 |
| third party | 42 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 260 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 19 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 353 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 663 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/london-salons) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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