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

# London in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

3,661 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 2,543 reachable. 33% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 60% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 1,224 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

3,661

sites scanned

33%

turn an AI crawler away

60%

book or order on their own domain

1,224

score A or B

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 Findings

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

Grades

| F | 1,509 |
| B | 785 |
| C | 567 |
| A | 439 |
| D | 361 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 1,457 |
| none | 739 |
| PDF | 235 |
| elsewhere | 80 |
| on the page | 24 |
| image | 8 |

Direct booking or ordering

| own site | 1,273 |
| none | 754 |
| vendor on own site | 254 |
| third party | 132 |
| marketplace | 130 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 836 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 55 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 1,118 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 2,543 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) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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#### For agents

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#### Data

[City data, JSON and Markdown](https://directindex.org/cities)[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml)

Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

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