--- title: Lyon in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/lyon/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Lyon, FR # Lyon in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 980 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 776 reachable. 18% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 48% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 335 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 980 sites scanned 18% turn an AI crawler away 48% book or order on their own domain 335 score A or B During October 2026, 980 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 776 reachable and 204 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at grades across all scanned sites, 88 received an A, 247 a B, 187 a C, 160 a D, and 298 an F, meaning A or B together accounted for 335, which is 34% of the scanned sites. For menu or price list formats, 520 sites provided an HTML page, 52 used a PDF, 29 placed it on another site, 11 had it on the page itself, 2 used an image, and 162 had no menu or price list. Regarding booking or ordering options, direct paths were available for 280 on the business's own site and 93 through a vendor on the business's own site, while 55 operated only through a marketplace, 76 through an unrecognised third party, and 272 offered no booking or ordering path. Pour ce mois d octobre 2026, 980 sites de restaurants et fast food ont été analysés, parmi lesquels 776 étaient accessibles et 204 inaccessibles pour notre outil. Concernant les notes attribuées, 88 sites obtiennent un A, 247 un B, 187 un C, 160 un D et 298 un F, les catégories A ou B regroupant 335 sites soit 34% des sites analysés. Pour la réservation ou la commande, 373 sites permettent une démarche direct sur leur propre domaine, soit 48% des sites accessibles, avec 280 démarches sur le site propre du business, 93 via un prestataire sur le site propre du business, 55 uniquement via une marketplace, 76 via un tiers non reconnu et 272 sans parcours proposé. Enfin, 142 sites accessibles écartent au moins un robot d IA à la périphérie, soit 18% des sites accessibles, tandis que 15 sites bloquent un robot d IA dans le fichier robots.txt. 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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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. 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