The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · New York hairdressers and beauty salons, US

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

491 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 290 reachable. 39% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 55% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 64 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

491

sites scanned

39%

turn an AI crawler away

55%

book or order on their own domain

64

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F256
C112
D59
B57
A7
Menu or price list
none256
HTML page29
elsewhere5
Direct booking or ordering
own site102
none94
vendor on own site57
third party26
marketplace11
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge114
Block one in robots.txt12
Unreachable from our scanner201

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 290 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.