The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Washington, US

Washington in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

1,024 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 810 reachable. 31% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 73% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 458 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,024

sites scanned

31%

turn an AI crawler away

73%

book or order on their own domain

458

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F322
B245
A213
C159
D85
Menu or price list
HTML page577
none179
PDF28
elsewhere25
image1
Direct booking or ordering
own site415
vendor on own site180
none137
third party51
marketplace27
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge255
Block one in robots.txt25
Unreachable from our scanner214

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 810 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.