--- title: New York vs Vienna (Wien): which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/compare/new-york/vienna?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) [Compare](https://directindex.org/compare) · restaurants and fast food · as of 2026-10-15 # New York or Vienna (Wien): whose businesses can AI agents use? New York: 3,790 business websites scanned, 58% take a booking or an order on their own site, 31% turn an AI crawler away, 41% score A or B. Vienna (Wien): 2,599 business websites scanned, 37% take a booking or an order on their own site, 27% turn an AI crawler away, 24% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-15. | | New York | Vienna | | --- | --- | --- | | Business websites scanned | 3,790 of 19,107 with a site | 2,599 of 2,879 with a site | | Take a booking or an order on their own site | **58%** of 3,154 reachable | 37% of 2,302 reachable | | Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 31% of 3,154 reachable | **27%** of 2,302 reachable | | Score A or B | **41%** 1,562 sites | 24% 630 sites | [New York](https://directindex.org/city/new-york) · [United States](https://directindex.org/country/us) ********** A 593 · B 969 · C 665 · D 452 · F 1111 [Vienna (Wien)](https://directindex.org/city/vienna) · [Austria](https://directindex.org/country/at) ********** A 201 · B 429 · C 483 · D 609 · F 877 Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. 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Findings ## What the index found in each city Menu or price list | | New York | Vienna | | --- | --- | --- | | HTML page | 64% 2,031 | 39% 900 | | none | 28% 871 | 42% 976 | | PDF | 4% 113 | 11% 256 | | elsewhere | 4% 123 | 2% 35 | | on the page | 0% 2 | 5% 126 | | image | 0% 14 | 0% 9 | Direct booking or ordering | | New York | Vienna | | --- | --- | --- | | own site | 39% 1,242 | 34% 791 | | none | 23% 734 | 53% 1,228 | | vendor on own site | 19% 600 | 3% 61 | | third party | 12% 378 | 4% 88 | | marketplace | 6% 200 | 6% 134 | Site builder | | New York | Vienna | | --- | --- | --- | | Unknown | 40% 1,269 | 48% 1,099 | | WordPress | 19% 607 | 41% 935 | | Squarespace | 17% 544 | 2% 43 | | Wix | 6% 187 | 6% 139 | | BentoBox | 9% 278 | 0% 0 | | Webflow | 2% 51 | 2% 40 | | GoDaddy Website Builder | 2% 68 | 0% 3 | Booking and ordering vendors | | New York | Vienna | | --- | --- | --- | | [Toast](https://directindex.org/vendors/toast) | 328 | 0 | | [Resy](https://directindex.org/vendors/resy) | 274 | 0 | | [OpenTable](https://directindex.org/vendors/opentable) | 155 | 0 | | [BentoBox](https://directindex.org/vendors/bentobox) | 115 | 0 | | [DoorDash Storefront](https://directindex.org/vendors/doordash_storefront) | 107 | 0 | | [ChowNow](https://directindex.org/vendors/chownow) | 89 | 0 | | [Square](https://directindex.org/vendors/square) | 87 | 0 | | [Grubhub](https://directindex.org/vendors/grubhub) | 73 | 0 | | [Just Eat](https://directindex.org/vendors/justeat) | 0 | 68 | | [TheFork](https://directindex.org/vendors/thefork) | 0 | 29 | Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (3,154 in New York, 2,302 in Vienna). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass. Month by month ## New York / Vienna, month by month Each cell reads New York / Vienna. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [New York](https://directindex.org/city/new-york), [Vienna (Wien)](https://directindex.org/city/vienna). | Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | October 2026 so far | 4,308 / 2,878 | 58% / 37% | 31% / 27% | 1,562 / 630 | More ## Keep comparing [United States: every city](https://directindex.org/country/us) · [Austria: every city](https://directindex.org/country/at) · [Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants) · [Pick two other cities](https://directindex.org/compare) · [New York on a map](https://directindex.org/city/new-york/map) · [Vienna on a map](https://directindex.org/city/vienna/map) #### The Direct Index [Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct)[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about)[Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology)[Privacy](https://directindex.org/privacy)[Terms](https://directindex.org/terms) #### Use it [Free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[City indexes](https://directindex.org/cities)[Search the index](https://directindex.org/search)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[What assistants recommend](https://directindex.org/assistants)[Ask the index](https://directindex.org/ask) #### Vendors and help [Booking and ordering vendors](https://directindex.org/vendors)[Do their terms allow agents?](https://directindex.org/vendors/terms)[Vendor verification](https://directindex.org/vendors/verification)[Website builders](https://directindex.org/builders)[Who can fix this](https://directindex.org/providers)[For agencies](https://directindex.org/agency) #### For agents [llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json)[Direct feeds](https://directindex.org/direct.json) #### Data [Open data, CSV and JSON](https://directindex.org/data)[The quarterly edition](https://directindex.org/editions)[City data, JSON and Markdown](https://directindex.org/cities)[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml) Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. 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