The Direct Index
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The Direct Index, October 2026

60 cities with at least 100 scanned sites, ranked on book or order on their own site: Washington first at 72%, Budapest last at 11%. Also ranked on the other two measures; every rank carries its sample. As of 2026-10-14.

Kind: restaurants and fast food · cafes and bars · hairdressers and beauty salons · dentists, clinics and vets · tours, attractions and museums · Whole cities

Ranked on: Direct share · Crawler-open share · A-or-B share · Markdown · JSON

#CityBook or order on their own siteLet AI crawlers inScore A or BSites scannedReachable
1Washington United States72% 1st68% 30th47% 1st945796
2Austin United States66% 2nd63% 51st34% 8th1,189923
3Boston United States63% 3rd67% 34th36% 4th1,3741,107
4Glasgow United Kingdom63% 4th61% 55th31% 21st544441
5Chicago United States61% 5th59% 58th33% 11th2,7842,108
6Dublin Ireland61% 6th65% 45th35% 5th983865
7Washington, DC United States61% 7th60% 56th27% 28th783601
8Los Angeles United States60% 8th56% 59th31% 17th2,5081,881
9Seattle United States60% 9th64% 48th31% 18th1,8161,430
10San Francisco United States60% 10th61% 54th33% 12th1,7831,349
11Birmingham United Kingdom60% 11th67% 38th31% 20th634525
12Edinburgh United Kingdom59% 12th71% 21st33% 13th1,129942
13London United Kingdom58% 13th67% 31st33% 10th6,8745,782
14Miami United States57% 14th69% 28th39% 2nd278236
15New York United States56% 15th64% 46th34% 7th7,3865,704
16Singapore Singapore55% 16th67% 35th34% 9th935758
17Toronto Canada54% 17th65% 41st28% 24th2,2031,783
18Vancouver Canada54% 18th67% 33rd32% 16th1,6471,352
19Paris France53% 19th81% 4th37% 3rd4,1503,760
20Cork Ireland53% 20th60% 57th27% 29th280243
21Manchester United Kingdom52% 21st74% 15th28% 26th470392
22Valencia Spain52% 22nd75% 14th33% 14th434401
23Madrid Spain49% 23rd68% 29th32% 15th1,6941,544
24Bordeaux France49% 24th80% 8th31% 22nd541489
25Zurich Switzerland48% 25th54% 60th20% 44th1,6841,382
26Lyon France48% 26th79% 9th31% 19th1,2731,114
27Brussels Belgium46% 27th81% 5th30% 23rd1,3981,241
28Barcelona Spain46% 28th73% 18th27% 27th1,1001,006
29Marseille France46% 29th83% 2nd35% 6th315278
30Montreal Canada43% 30th62% 53rd24% 39th1,2721,008
31Munich Germany42% 31st64% 47th18% 45th3,5243,069
32Lisbon Portugal42% 32nd65% 44th25% 33rd1,3521,223
33Rotterdam Netherlands41% 33rd67% 36th25% 34th915819
34Vienna Austria40% 34th73% 16th21% 41st4,5564,059
35Amsterdam Netherlands40% 35th69% 26th26% 30th2,4302,210
36Milan Italy40% 36th70% 23rd24% 38th1,6591,417
37Antwerp Belgium40% 37th81% 6th26% 31st757669
38Porto Portugal40% 38th67% 37th25% 35th639583
39Nice France40% 39th83% 1st28% 25th501453
40Seville Spain40% 40th71% 22nd26% 32nd243214
41Geneva Switzerland39% 41st66% 39th21% 43rd393318
42Copenhagen Denmark38% 42nd76% 12th23% 40th1,8921,691
43Frankfurt Germany38% 43rd65% 42nd16% 48th1,8051,592
44Helsinki Finland38% 44th78% 10th18% 46th1,5081,331
45Oslo Norway38% 45th78% 11th16% 49th813752
46Turin Italy38% 46th73% 19th25% 36th425376
47Florence Italy38% 47th70% 24th25% 37th275239
48Cologne Germany37% 48th67% 32nd16% 47th2,0931,831
49Rome Italy36% 49th65% 43rd21% 42nd1,3631,120
50Hamburg Germany35% 50th63% 50th14% 52nd4,3473,826
51Berlin Germany34% 51st62% 52nd14% 51st8,7807,713
52Stockholm Sweden29% 52nd82% 3rd13% 54th2,2742,072
53Mexico City Mexico29% 53rd66% 40th14% 53rd377313
54São Paulo Brazil27% 54th70% 25th11% 57th228190
55Buenos Aires Argentina26% 55th73% 20th7% 60th337285
56Naples Italy25% 56th81% 7th12% 56th195179
57Athens Greece24% 57th75% 13th16% 50th604548
58Prague Czechia19% 58th73% 17th12% 55th2,0891,895
59Warsaw Poland13% 59th64% 49th10% 58th1,5081,404
60Budapest Hungary11% 60th69% 27th7% 59th1,9711,824

Direct share: sites with a booking or ordering path on their own domain, as a share of the reachable sites. Crawler-open share: reachable sites that do not turn GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot away at the edge. A-or-B share: sites scoring A or B, as a share of all scanned sites. Latest full scan of each site; a tie is broken by the larger sample. Methodology.

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Fewer than 100 scanned sites

Listed with their numbers, not ranked: a small sample moves too much to be placed.

CityBook or order on their own siteLet AI crawlers inScore A or BSites scanned
Aarhus Denmark0%0%0%0
Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates0%0%0%0
Atlanta United States0%0%0%0
Auckland New Zealand0%0%0%0
Bangkok Thailand0%0%0%0
Basel Switzerland0%0%0%0
Bergen Norway0%0%0%0
Bern Switzerland0%0%0%0
Bilbao Spain0%0%0%0
Bogotá Colombia0%0%0%0
Bologna Italy0%0%0%0
Braga Portugal0%0%0%0
Bremen Germany0%0%0%0
Brisbane Australia0%0%0%0
Calgary Canada0%0%0%0
Cape Town South Africa0%0%0%0
Charlotte United States0%0%0%0
Coimbra Portugal0%0%0%0
Dallas United States0%0%0%0
Denver United States0%0%0%0
Doha Qatar0%0%0%0
Dortmund Germany0%0%0%0
Dresden Germany0%0%0%0
Dubai United Arab Emirates0%0%0%0
Düsseldorf Germany0%0%0%0
Eindhoven Netherlands0%0%0%0
Essen Germany0%0%0%0
Faro Portugal0%0%0%0
Funchal Portugal0%0%0%0
Genoa Italy0%0%0%0
Ghent Belgium0%0%0%0
Gothenburg Sweden0%0%0%0
Graz Austria0%0%0%0
Hanover Germany0%0%0%0
Hong Kong China0%0%0%0
Houston United States0%0%0%0
Istanbul Türkiye0%0%0%0
Johannesburg South Africa0%0%0%0
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia0%0%0%0
Las Vegas United States0%0%0%0
Lausanne Switzerland0%0%0%0
Leipzig Germany0%0%0%0
Lille France0%0%0%0
Linz Austria0%0%0%0
Luxembourg Luxembourg0%0%0%0
Malmö Sweden0%0%0%0
Melbourne Australia0%0%0%0
Minneapolis United States0%0%0%0
Monterrey Mexico0%0%0%0
Montpellier France0%0%0%0
Málaga Spain0%0%0%0
Nantes France0%0%0%0
Nuremberg Germany0%0%0%0
Orlando United States0%0%0%0
Osaka Japan0%0%0%0
Ottawa Canada0%0%0%0
Palma Spain0%0%0%0
Perth Australia0%0%0%0
Philadelphia United States0%0%0%0
Phoenix United States0%0%0%0
Rio de Janeiro Brazil0%0%0%0
Salzburg Austria0%0%0%0
San Diego United States0%0%0%0
San Jose United States0%0%0%0
Santiago Chile0%0%0%0
Seoul South Korea0%0%0%0
Strasbourg France0%0%0%0
Stuttgart Germany0%0%0%0
Sydney Australia0%0%0%0
Tel Aviv Israel0%0%0%0
The Hague Netherlands0%0%0%0
Tokyo Japan0%0%0%0
Toulouse France0%0%0%0
Utrecht Netherlands0%0%0%0
Venice Italy0%0%0%0
Verona Italy0%0%0%0
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