The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Pretoria, ZA

Pretoria in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

74 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 70 of them could be read. 19% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 43% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 28 score A or B. The month isn't over yet, so this page updates every hour.

74

sites scanned

19%

turn an AI crawler away

43%

book or order on their own domain

28

score A or B

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Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
C17
F17
B15
A13
D12
Menu or price list
HTML page43
none18
PDF8
elsewhere1
Direct booking or ordering
own site30
none29
third party10
marketplace1
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge14
Block one in robots.txt7
Unreachable from the scanner4

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 70 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 74 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

Assistants

Where assistants sent people in October 2026

For the top-ranked businesses, each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order. Each business and question counts once, with the latest answer before the month ended.

AssistantOwn site or direct vendorMarketplaceDirectoryNowhere usefulAnswers
ChatGPT67%12%0%22%60
Gemini70%15%3%12%60

Asked the way people ask

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT98%2%0%0%59
Claude60%7%3%30%60
Gemini72%3%0%25%64
Method

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.