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Chicago or New York: 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. 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.
| Chicago | New York |
|---|
| Business websites scanned | 1,568 of 1,730 with a site | 4,322 of 4,874 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 66% of 1,150 reachable | 58% of 3,384 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 45% of 1,150 reachable | 33% of 3,384 reachable |
| Score A or B | 38% 603 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.
Findings
What the index found in each city
Menu or price list | Chicago | New York |
|---|
| HTML page | 65% 751 | 62% 2,091 |
| none | 26% 295 | 30% 1,031 |
| PDF | 5% 63 | 3% 116 |
| elsewhere | 3% 36 | 4% 131 |
| image | 0% 5 | 0% 13 |
| on the page | 0% 0 | 0% 2 |
Direct booking or ordering | Chicago | New York |
|---|
| own site | 41% 474 | 40% 1,342 |
| none | 22% 258 | 25% 844 |
| vendor on own site | 25% 282 | 18% 609 |
| third party | 8% 96 | 12% 394 |
| marketplace | 3% 40 | 6% 195 |
Site builder | Chicago | New York |
|---|
| Unknown | 38% 442 | 43% 1,467 |
| WordPress | 28% 324 | 20% 667 |
| Squarespace | 17% 195 | 17% 584 |
| BentoBox | 6% 71 | 9% 317 |
| Wix | 3% 32 | 3% 118 |
| Webflow | 3% 38 | 2% 57 |
| Weebly | 2% 27 | 2% 56 |
Booking and ordering vendors
Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (1,150 in Chicago, 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.
Month by month
Chicago / New York, month by month
Each cell reads Chicago / New York. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Chicago, New York.
| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
|---|
| October 2026 so far | 1,729 / 4,873 | 66% / 58% | 45% / 33% | 603 / 1,741 |