Oxford hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
29 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 27 of them could be read. 7% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 37% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 7 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.
sites scanned
turn an AI crawler away
book or order on their own domain
score A or B
For October 2026, 29 websites of hairdressers and beauty salons were scanned, with 27 reachable and 2 unreachable from our scanner. In terms of grades, 1 site earned an A, 6 earned a B, 9 earned a C, 5 earned a D, 8 earned an F, and 7 sites, which is 24% of the scanned sites, received an A or B together. Looking at online options, 10 sites, which is 37% of the reachable sites, take a booking or an order on their own domain, with direct booking or ordering on the business's own site found on 9, through a vendor on the business's own site on 1, only through a marketplace on 2, through an unrecognised third party on 6, and no booking or ordering path on 9. For other features, 2 sites provide a menu or price list as an HTML page while 25 have no menu or price list, 2 sites, which is 7% of the scanned sites (dead addresses left out), turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, and 0 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-04; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.
The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown
How the sites stood at the end of October 2026
| C | 9 |
| F | 8 |
| B | 6 |
| D | 5 |
| A | 1 |
| none | 25 |
| HTML page | 2 |
| own site | 9 |
| none | 9 |
| third party | 6 |
| marketplace | 2 |
| vendor on own site | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 2 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 2 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 27 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 29 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.
How this page is made
Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.