Oxford in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?
217 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 210 of them could be read. 15% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 67% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 120 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, 217 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 210 reachable and 7 unreachable from our scanner. Across the scanned sites, 120 received grades of A or B together, which is 55% of the total, alongside 48 grade C, 26 grade D, and 23 grade F results. For menus and price lists, 147 appeared as an HTML page, 10 as a PDF, 2 as an image, 7 on another site, and 44 had no menu or price list. Regarding guest paths, 141 sites take direct bookings or orders on their own domain, which is 67% of the reachable sites, while 21 take bookings or orders only through a marketplace, 6 through an unrecognised third party, and 42 offer no booking or ordering path.
Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-11-02; 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
| A | 62 |
| B | 58 |
| C | 48 |
| D | 26 |
| F | 23 |
| HTML page | 147 |
| none | 44 |
| 10 | |
| elsewhere | 7 |
| image | 2 |
| own site | 129 |
| none | 42 |
| marketplace | 21 |
| vendor on own site | 12 |
| third party | 6 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 33 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 7 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 7 |
Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 210 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 217 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.