--- title: Seattle hairdressers and beauty salons in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/seattle-salons/2026-10 --- [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)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about) 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, 65% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 51 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 328 sites scanned 31% turn an AI crawler away 65% book or order on their own domain 51 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/seattle-salons) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/seattle-salons/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/seattle-salons/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/seattle-salons/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 125 | | C | 94 | | D | 58 | | B | 49 | | A | 2 | Menu or price list | none | 217 | | HTML page | 19 | | elsewhere | 5 | Direct booking or ordering | vendor on own site | 81 | | own site | 76 | | none | 65 | | third party | 13 | | marketplace | 6 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 74 | | Block one in robots.txt | 3 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 87 | 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. 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