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Chicago or Los Angeles: whose businesses can AI agents use?
Chicago: 1,568 business websites scanned, 66% take a booking or an order on their own site, 45% turn an AI crawler away, 38% score A or B. Los Angeles: 1,511 business websites scanned, 64% take a booking or an order on their own site, 41% turn an AI crawler away, 37% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.
| Chicago | Los Angeles |
|---|
| Business websites scanned | 1,568 of 1,730 with a site | 1,511 of 1,694 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 66% of 1,150 reachable | 64% of 1,148 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 45% of 1,150 reachable | 41% of 1,148 reachable |
| Score A or B | 38% 603 sites | 37% 561 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.
Findings
What the index found in each city
Menu or price list | Chicago | Los Angeles |
|---|
| HTML page | 65% 751 | 64% 729 |
| none | 26% 295 | 31% 353 |
| PDF | 5% 63 | 3% 30 |
| elsewhere | 3% 36 | 3% 35 |
| image | 0% 5 | 0% 0 |
| on the page | 0% 0 | 0% 1 |
Direct booking or ordering | Chicago | Los Angeles |
|---|
| own site | 41% 474 | 43% 491 |
| none | 22% 258 | 25% 292 |
| vendor on own site | 25% 282 | 21% 238 |
| third party | 8% 96 | 7% 81 |
| marketplace | 3% 40 | 4% 46 |
Site builder | Chicago | Los Angeles |
|---|
| Unknown | 38% 442 | 38% 438 |
| WordPress | 28% 324 | 27% 308 |
| Squarespace | 17% 195 | 15% 170 |
| BentoBox | 6% 71 | 5% 56 |
| Wix | 3% 32 | 5% 53 |
| Webflow | 3% 38 | 3% 39 |
| Weebly | 2% 27 | 3% 33 |
Booking and ordering vendors
Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (1,150 in Chicago, 1,148 in Los Angeles). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.
Month by month
Chicago / Los Angeles, month by month
Each cell reads Chicago / Los Angeles. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Chicago, Los Angeles.
| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
|---|
| October 2026 so far | 1,729 / 1,692 | 66% / 64% | 45% / 41% | 603 / 561 |