--- title: Porto in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/porto/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Porto, PT # Porto in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 544 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 439 reachable. 34% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 40% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 127 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 544 sites scanned 34% turn an AI crawler away 40% book or order on their own domain 127 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 544 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 439 reachable and 105 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at overall performance, grades were A for 37, B for 90, C for 96, D for 83, and F for 238, meaning 127 received an A or B together, which is 23% of the scanned sites. Among the reachable sites, 176 take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 40% of the reachable sites, while 148 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 34% of the reachable sites, and 18 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. When AI assistants were asked where to book or order at the best-scoring businesses, the share of answers that sent people direct to the business's own site or a direct vendor was 76% of 90 answers from ChatGPT, 73% of 90 answers from Claude, and 88% of 90 answers from Gemini. Durante o mês de outubro de 2026, foram analisados 544 websites de restaurantes e fast food, dos quais 439 estavam acessíveis e 105 inacessíveis ao nosso rastreador. Em termos de avaliação global, 37 obtiveram a nota A, 90 a nota B, 96 a nota C, 83 a nota D e 238 a nota F, totalizando 127 com classificação A ou B, o que representa 23% dos sites analisados. Quanto à reserva ou pedido, 176 sites aceitam pedidos ou reservas no seu próprio domínio, correspondendo a 40% dos sites acessíveis, verificando-se que 155 funcionam no próprio site do business, 21 através de um fornecedor no próprio site do business, 39 apenas através de um marketplace, 27 através de terceiros não reconhecidos e 197 não têm qualquer via disponível. Relativamente aos assistentes de inteligência artificial questionados sobre onde reservar ou pedir nos businesses com melhor pontuação, a percentagem de respostas que encaminhou as pessoas para o site do próprio business ou para um fornecedor direct foi de 76% em 90 respostas no ChatGPT, 73% em 90 respostas no Claude e 88% em 90 respostas no Gemini. 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/porto) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/porto/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/porto/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/porto/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 238 | | C | 96 | | B | 90 | | D | 83 | | A | 37 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 191 | | none | 180 | | PDF | 45 | | on the page | 11 | | elsewhere | 8 | | image | 4 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 197 | | own site | 155 | | marketplace | 39 | | third party | 27 | | vendor on own site | 21 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 148 | | Block one in robots.txt | 18 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 105 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 439 reachable sites. Assistants ## Where assistants sent people in October 2026 Each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order, for the top-ranked businesses. Latest answer per business and question before the month ended. | Assistant | Own site or direct vendor | Marketplace | Directory | Nowhere useful | Answers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | **76%** | 16% | 0% | 9% | 90 | | Claude | **73%** | 19% | 2% | 6% | 90 | | Gemini | **88%** | 10% | 1% | 1% | 90 | ### Asked the way people ask | Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | **90%** | 0% | 0% | 10% | 39 | | Claude | **54%** | 6% | 9% | 31% | 35 | | Gemini | **87%** | 0% | 0% | 13% | 39 | 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. 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