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

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

328 shop:hairdresser and shop:beauty and shop:massage websites scanned, 241 reachable. 31% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 50% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 42 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

328

sites scanned

31%

turn an AI crawler away

50%

book or order on their own domain

42

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 328 websites were scanned, with 241 reachable and 87 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at access, 74 reachable sites, which is 31% of the reachable sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 4 block an AI crawler in robots.txt. For performance grades, 1 site earned an A, 41 earned a B, 82 received a C, 59 received a D, and 145 received an F, meaning 42 sites, or 13% of the scanned sites, scored an A or B together. Regarding services, 120 sites, which is 50% 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 58 sites, through a vendor on the business's own site on 62, only through a marketplace on 4, through an unrecognised third party on 13, and no booking or ordering path on 104.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-14; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F145
C82
D59
B41
A1
Menu or price list
none217
HTML page19
elsewhere5
Direct booking or ordering
none104
vendor on own site62
own site58
third party13
marketplace4
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge74
Block one in robots.txt4
Unreachable from our scanner87

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 241 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.