46% of business websites take a booking or an order themselves

161,416 reachable business websites in 675 indexes, as scanned by 17 October 2026.

Main points

That is 46% of 161,416 reachable business websites.
By kind of business: highest among dentists, clinics and vets (50%), lowest among tours, attractions and museums (40%).
Among 43 cafe and bar indexes, Boston is highest at 62%; the median is 41%.

Figure 1

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	48%	74,726
cafes and bars	41%	29,566
hairdressers and beauty salons	42%	17,764
dentists, clinics and vets	50%	29,450
tours, attractions and museums	40%	9,910

Figure 2

Cafes and bars, city by city

another cafe and bar indexmedian, 41%

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43 cafe and bar indexes. The median is 41%; the highest is Boston at 62%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Boston US	62%	218
2	Washington, DC US	59%	387
3	Brisbane AU	54%	250
4	Philadelphia US	53%	212
5	Singapore SG	53%	180
6	Denver US	52%	269
7	Seattle US	51%	545
8	Sydney AU	51%	683
9	London GB	51%	2,079
10	Chicago US	51%	602

All 43 cafe and bar indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Boston US	62%	218
2	Washington, DC US	59%	387
3	Brisbane AU	54%	250
4	Philadelphia US	53%	212
5	Singapore SG	53%	180
6	Denver US	52%	269
7	Seattle US	51%	545
8	Sydney AU	51%	683
9	London GB	51%	2,079
10	Chicago US	51%	602
11	San Diego US	50%	224
12	Dublin IE	50%	327
13	Paris FR	50%	732
14	New York US	50%	1,262
15	Melbourne AU	49%	870
16	Los Angeles US	49%	373
17	San Francisco US	48%	335
18	Vancouver CA	48%	335
19	Edinburgh GB	48%	331
20	Brussels BE	47%	240
21	Montreal CA	43%	242
22	Copenhagen DK	41%	570
23	Madrid ES	41%	253
24	Miami US	40%	717
25	Zurich CH	39%	307
26	Toronto CA	39%	333
27	Stockholm SE	37%	391
28	Vienna AT	36%	579
29	Amsterdam NL	36%	469
30	Helsinki FI	34%	263
31	Hamburg DE	34%	660
32	Cologne DE	33%	345
33	Milan IT	33%	226
34	Lisbon PT	32%	353
35	Munich DE	32%	447
36	Barcelona ES	31%	199
37	Stuttgart DE	30%	243
38	Frankfurt DE	30%	264
39	Berlin DE	26%	2,217
40	Rome IT	26%	179
41	Prague CZ	24%	516
42	Tokyo JP	18%	293
43	Budapest HU	12%	385

Indexes under 200 scanned websites are left out. The "Of" column is the base each figure rests on.

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About these numbers
Counted when the site takes the booking or order on its own pages or through a vendor acting for the business. A link out to a marketplace doesn't count.

Cite this

46% of business websites take a booking or an order themselves (The Direct Index, 17 October 2026, directindex.org/stats/direct-booking).

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Data: ODbL. Business data from OpenStreetMap contributors and Overture Maps; website facts from the Direct Index scanner, which reads each site's public pages.