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

1,320 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 957 reachable. 32% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 42% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 321 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,320

sites scanned

32%

turn an AI crawler away

42%

book or order on their own domain

321

score A or B

During October 2026, 1320 websites of restaurants and fast food businesses were scanned, with 957 reachable and 363 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site features, 489 offer a menu as an HTML page, 97 as a PDF, 81 on another site, 22 on the page itself, 2 as an image, and 266 show no menu or price list. For customers taking action, 325 sites support direct booking or ordering on the business's own site, 76 through a vendor on the business's own site, 76 only through a marketplace, 98 through an unrecognised third party, and 382 have no booking or ordering path, meaning 401 sites or 42% take bookings or orders on their own domain. Regarding technical access and quality, 304 reachable sites or 32% turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, 20 block an AI crawler in robots.txt, and the performance grades show 70 A, 251 B, 259 C, 222 D, and 518 F, with 321 or 24% receiving an A or B together.

Nel mese di ottobre 2026 sono stati scansionati 1320 siti web di business del settore ristorazione e fast food a Milano, con 957 siti risultati raggiungibili e 363 irraggiungibili dal nostro scanner. Tra i siti raggiungibili, 304 business, pari al 32% dei siti raggiungibili, respingono almeno un crawler AI all'edge, mentre 20 bloccano un crawler AI nel file robots.txt. Per quanto riguarda la gestione di ordini o prenotazioni, 401 siti, ossia il 42% dei siti raggiungibili, consentono una procedura direct sul proprio dominio, mentre 325 permettono la gestione sul sito del business, 76 tramite un fornitore sul sito del business, 76 solo tramite marketplace, 98 tramite terze parti non riconosciute e 382 non presentano alcun percorso. Infine, l'assegnazione dei punteggi vede 70 siti con voto A, 251 con B, 259 con C, 222 con D e 518 con F, con un totale di 321 siti valutati A o B insieme che rappresentano il 24% dei siti scansionati.

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 | 518 |
| C | 259 |
| B | 251 |
| D | 222 |
| A | 70 |

Menu or price list

| HTML page | 489 |
| none | 266 |
| PDF | 97 |
| elsewhere | 81 |
| on the page | 22 |
| image | 2 |

Direct booking or ordering

| none | 382 |
| own site | 325 |
| third party | 98 |
| marketplace | 76 |
| vendor on own site | 76 |

AI crawlers

| Turn at least one away at the edge | 304 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 20 |
| Unreachable from our scanner | 363 |

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 957 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/milan) · [all cities](https://directindex.org/cities).

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