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title: Glasgow vs London: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/glasgow/london?format=md
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# Glasgow or London: whose businesses can AI agents use?

Glasgow: 258 business websites scanned, 70% take a booking or an order on their own site, 37% turn an AI crawler away, 44% 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.

| | Glasgow | London |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 258 of 289 with a site | 3,072 of 3,663 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | **70%** of 212 reachable | 60% of 2,543 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 37% of 212 reachable | **33%** of 2,543 reachable |
| Score A or B | **44%** 113 sites | 40% 1,224 sites |

[Glasgow](https://directindex.org/city/glasgow) · [United Kingdom](https://directindex.org/country/gb)
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A 35 · B 78 · C 54 · D 21 · F 70

[London](https://directindex.org/city/london) · [United Kingdom](https://directindex.org/country/gb)
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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](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/compare/glasgow/london?format=md) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/api/compare/glasgow/london) · [All cities ranked](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants).

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Glasgow | London |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 68% 145 | 57% 1,457 |
| none | 22% 46 | 29% 739 |
| PDF | 7% 15 | 9% 235 |
| elsewhere | 2% 4 | 3% 80 |
| on the page | 0% 1 | 1% 24 |
| image | 0% 1 | 0% 8 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Glasgow | London |
| --- | --- | --- |
| own site | 60% 128 | 50% 1,273 |
| none | 24% 51 | 30% 754 |
| vendor on own site | 10% 21 | 10% 254 |
| third party | 3% 6 | 5% 132 |
| marketplace | 3% 6 | 5% 130 |

Site builder

| | Glasgow | London |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 37% 78 | 41% 1,050 |
| WordPress | 39% 82 | 38% 960 |
| Squarespace | 15% 32 | 10% 245 |
| Wix | 6% 12 | 5% 129 |
| Shopify | 1% 2 | 3% 66 |
| Webflow | 2% 4 | 2% 43 |
| GoDaddy Website Builder | 0% 0 | 1% 22 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Glasgow | London |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [SevenRooms](https://directindex.org/vendors/sevenrooms) | 8 | 155 |
| [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 0 | 131 |
| [Deliveroo](https://directindex.org/vendors/deliveroo) | 2 | 96 |
| [Dojo](https://directindex.org/vendors/dojo) | 2 | 35 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 4 | 31 |
| [Just Eat](https://directindex.org/vendors/justeat) | 2 | 22 |
| [Slerp](https://directindex.org/vendors/slerp) | 0 | 22 |
| [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 0 | 20 |
| [ResDiary](https://directindex.org/vendors/resdiary) | 13 | 0 |
| [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 3 | 0 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (212 in Glasgow, 2,543 in London). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Month by month

## Glasgow / London, month by month

Each cell reads Glasgow / London. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Glasgow](https://directindex.org/city/glasgow), [London](https://directindex.org/city/london).

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 289 / 3,661 | 70% / 60% | 37% / 33% | 113 / 1,224 |

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