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title: Lyon in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/city/lyon/2026-10
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# Lyon in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

990 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 753 reachable. 20% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 47% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 334 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

990

sites scanned

20%

turn an AI crawler away

47%

book or order on their own domain

334

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 990 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 753 reachable and 237 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at overall performance, grades show A 86, B 248, C 181, D 160, and F 315, with A or B together reaching 334, which is 34% of the scanned sites. For customer access, direct booking or ordering occurs on 356 sites that take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 47% of the reachable sites, while 265 feature booking or ordering on the business's own site, 91 through a vendor on the business's own site, 54 only through a marketplace, 73 through an unrecognised third party, and 270 have no booking or ordering path. Regarding content and technical setups, menus or price lists appear as an HTML page on 497, on a PDF on 52, on another site on 29, on the page itself on 10, as an image on 2, with no menu or price list on 163, while 147 reachable sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 20% of the reachable sites, and 15 block an AI crawler in robots.txt.

Pour ce mois d'octobre 2026, 990 sites de restaurants et de restauration rapide ont été analysés, parmi lesquels 753 étaient accessibles et 237 inaccessibles. Concernant la réservation ou la commande, 356 sites, soit 47% des sites accessibles, permettent une démarche sur leur propre domaine, tandis que 265 proposent ce parcours directement sur le site du business, 91 via un prestataire sur le site du business, 54 uniquement via une marketplace, 73 via un tiers non reconnu et 270 n'en proposent aucun. Pour la consultation des menus ou des tarifs, 497 sites utilisent une page HTML, 52 un format PDF, 29 un autre site, 10 la page elle-même, 2 une image, et 163 n'affichent ni menu ni liste de prix. Enfin, 147 sites accessibles, soit 20% d'entre eux, bloquent au moins un robot d'exploration d'IA en périphérie, 15 bloquent un robot d'exploration d'IA dans robots.txt, et les notes attribuées se répartissent en 86 A, 248 B, 181 C, 160 D et 315 F, soit 334 sites ayant obtenu un A ou un B représentant 34% des sites analysés.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; 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 | 315 |
| B | 248 |
| C | 181 |
| D | 160 |
| A | 86 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 497 |
| none | 163 |
| PDF | 52 |
| elsewhere | 29 |
| on the page | 10 |
| image | 2 |

Direct booking or ordering

| none | 270 |
| own site | 265 |
| vendor on own site | 91 |
| third party | 73 |
| marketplace | 54 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 147 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 15 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 237 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 753 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/lyon) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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