The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Montreal hairdressers and beauty salons, CA

Montreal hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

133 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 102 reachable. 43% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 48% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 21 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

133

sites scanned

43%

turn an AI crawler away

48%

book or order on their own domain

21

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 133 websites of hairdressers and beauty salons were scanned, with 102 reachable and 31 unreachable from our scanner. Across the scanned sites, 1 received an A, 20 earned a B, 25 received a C, 25 got a D, and 62 received an F, meaning 21 sites or 16% earned an A or B together. Looking at features, 7 sites provide a menu or price list as an HTML page, 5 have it on another site, and 90 have no menu or price list. For appointments, 49 sites or 48% of the reachable sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, while 35 offer direct booking or ordering on the business's own site, 14 use a vendor on the business's own site, 6 use only a marketplace, 10 go through an unrecognised third party, and 37 have no booking or ordering path.

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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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F62
C25
D25
B20
A1
Menu or price list
none90
HTML page7
elsewhere5
Direct booking or ordering
none37
own site35
vendor on own site14
third party10
marketplace6
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge44
Block one in robots.txt2
Unreachable from our scanner31

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 102 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.