Austin: 657 business websites scanned, 70% take a booking or an order on their own site, 38% turn an AI crawler away, 40% score A or B. New York: 4,322 business websites scanned, 58% take a booking or an order on their own site, 33% turn an AI crawler away, 40% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.
| Austin | New York | |
|---|---|---|
| Business websites scanned | 657 of 723 with a site | 4,322 of 4,874 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 70% of 496 reachable | 58% of 3,384 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 38% of 496 reachable | 33% of 3,384 reachable |
| Score A or B | 40% 261 sites | 40% 1,741 sites |
Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. Methodology · Markdown · JSON · All cities ranked.
| Austin | New York | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML page | 69% 340 | 62% 2,091 |
| none | 22% 110 | 30% 1,031 |
| 7% 33 | 3% 116 | |
| elsewhere | 3% 13 | 4% 131 |
| image | 0% 0 | 0% 13 |
| on the page | 0% 0 | 0% 2 |
| Austin | New York | |
|---|---|---|
| own site | 40% 200 | 40% 1,342 |
| none | 22% 111 | 25% 844 |
| vendor on own site | 30% 147 | 18% 609 |
| third party | 6% 28 | 12% 394 |
| marketplace | 2% 10 | 6% 195 |
| Austin | New York | |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 46% 227 | 43% 1,467 |
| WordPress | 25% 124 | 20% 667 |
| Squarespace | 16% 81 | 17% 584 |
| BentoBox | 3% 17 | 9% 317 |
| Wix | 3% 13 | 3% 118 |
| Webflow | 3% 17 | 2% 57 |
| Shopify | 1% 4 | 2% 63 |
Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (496 in Austin, 3,384 in New York). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.
Asked, with web search on, about the top-ranked businesses (the website, where to book, where to order) and the way people ask ("best pizza delivered tonight"). The share of answers that pointed to the business's own site or a direct vendor. Measured in the cities on the probe schedule; "not asked" elsewhere.
| Assistant | Austin: about a business | New York: about a business | Austin: asked the way people ask | New York: asked the way people ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | not asked | not asked | 95% of 37 places | not asked |
| Gemini | not asked | not asked | 88% of 33 places | not asked |
Each cell reads Austin / New York. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Austin, New York.
| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 so far | 723 / 4,873 | 70% / 58% | 38% / 33% | 261 / 1,741 |
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