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title: Madrid vs Valencia: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/madrid/valencia?format=md
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# Madrid or Valencia: whose businesses can AI agents use?

Madrid: 1,232 business websites scanned, 58% take a booking or an order on their own site, 31% turn an AI crawler away, 42% score A or B. Valencia: 308 business websites scanned, 58% take a booking or an order on their own site, 21% turn an AI crawler away, 45% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-14.

| | Madrid | Valencia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 1,232 of 1,619 with a site | 308 of 373 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 58% of 1,087 reachable | 58% of 286 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 31% of 1,087 reachable | **21%** of 286 reachable |
| Score A or B | 42% 519 sites | **45%** 138 sites |

[Madrid](https://directindex.org/city/madrid) · [Spain](https://directindex.org/country/es)
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A 170 · B 349 · C 211 · D 192 · F 310

[Valencia](https://directindex.org/city/valencia) · [Spain](https://directindex.org/country/es)
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A 45 · B 93 · C 57 · D 55 · F 58

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/madrid/valencia?format=md) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/api/compare/madrid/valencia) · [All cities ranked](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants).

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Madrid | Valencia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 60% 653 | 60% 173 |
| none | 29% 310 | 27% 77 |
| PDF | 5% 59 | 5% 14 |
| elsewhere | 3% 37 | 4% 12 |
| on the page | 2% 21 | 3% 10 |
| image | 1% 7 | 0% 0 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Madrid | Valencia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| own site | 54% 587 | 53% 153 |
| none | 33% 362 | 31% 90 |
| third party | 6% 64 | 7% 21 |
| vendor on own site | 4% 42 | 4% 12 |
| marketplace | 3% 32 | 3% 10 |

Site builder

| | Madrid | Valencia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| WordPress | 59% 636 | 63% 179 |
| Unknown | 36% 392 | 32% 91 |
| Wix | 2% 22 | 3% 8 |
| Squarespace | 2% 25 | 1% 2 |
| Webflow | 1% 6 | 1% 3 |
| Shopify | 0% 3 | 1% 2 |
| SITE123 | 0% 2 | 0% 0 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Madrid | Valencia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [CoverManager](https://directindex.org/vendors/covermanager) | 38 | 9 |
| [TheFork](https://directindex.org/vendors/thefork) | 29 | 4 |
| [Glovo](https://directindex.org/vendors/glovo) | 26 | 6 |
| [Just Eat](https://directindex.org/vendors/justeat) | 11 | 6 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 11 | 3 |
| [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 3 | 0 |
| [resOS](https://directindex.org/vendors/resos) | 2 | 0 |
| [SevenRooms](https://directindex.org/vendors/sevenrooms) | 2 | 0 |
| [Dojo](https://directindex.org/vendors/dojo) | 0 | 1 |
| [Flipdish](https://directindex.org/vendors/flipdish) | 0 | 1 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (1,087 in Madrid, 286 in Valencia). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Month by month

## Madrid / Valencia, month by month

Each cell reads Madrid / Valencia. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Madrid](https://directindex.org/city/madrid), [Valencia](https://directindex.org/city/valencia).

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 1,619 / 373 | 58% / 58% | 31% / 21% | 519 / 138 |

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