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Edinburgh or London: whose businesses can AI agents use?

Edinburgh: 465 business websites scanned, 67% take a booking or an order on their own site, 23% turn an AI crawler away, 46% score A or B. London: 3,072 business websites scanned, 60% 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.

EdinburghLondon
Business websites scanned465 of 531 with a site3,072 of 3,663 with a site
Take a booking or an order on their own site67% of 387 reachable60% of 2,543 reachable
Turn an AI crawler away at the edge23% of 387 reachable33% of 2,543 reachable
Score A or B46% 214 sites40% 1,224 sites
Edinburgh · United Kingdom

A 69 · B 145 · C 80 · D 49 · F 122

London · United Kingdom

A 439 · B 785 · C 567 · D 361 · F 920

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
EdinburghLondon
HTML page59% 22857% 1,457
none28% 11029% 739
PDF9% 359% 235
elsewhere3% 123% 80
on the page0% 01% 24
image1% 20% 8
Direct booking or ordering
EdinburghLondon
own site58% 22550% 1,273
none25% 9530% 754
vendor on own site9% 3310% 254
marketplace5% 215% 130
third party3% 135% 132
Site builder
EdinburghLondon
Unknown40% 15541% 1,050
WordPress40% 15338% 960
Squarespace13% 4910% 245
Wix4% 155% 129
Shopify1% 53% 66
Webflow2% 82% 43
GoDaddy Website Builder0% 11% 22
Booking and ordering vendors
EdinburghLondon
SevenRooms10155
OpenTable15131
Deliveroo896
Dojo435
Uber Eats431
Just Eat622
Toast420
Slerp022
ResDiary60

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (387 in Edinburgh, 2,543 in London). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

Assistants

Where the assistants send people

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.

AssistantEdinburgh: about a businessLondon: about a businessEdinburgh: asked the way people askLondon: asked the way people ask
ChatGPTnot askednot asked93% of 42 placesnot asked
Gemininot askednot asked95% of 40 placesnot asked
Month by month

Edinburgh / London, month by month

Each cell reads Edinburgh / London. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: Edinburgh, London.

MonthSites scannedBook or order on their own siteTurn a crawler awayScore A or B
October 2026 so far531 / 3,66167% / 60%23% / 33%214 / 1,224
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