The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Manchester, GB

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

312 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 221 reachable. 28% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 57% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 110 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

312

sites scanned

28%

turn an AI crawler away

57%

book or order on their own domain

110

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F123
B81
C48
D31
A29
Menu or price list
HTML page143
none59
PDF15
elsewhere4
Direct booking or ordering
own site113
none82
vendor on own site12
third party8
marketplace6
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge62
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from our scanner91

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 221 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 · the live index · all cities.