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The numbers / Agents · live, 2026-10-17

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 8 tour and attraction indexes, Paris is highest at 61%; the median is 38%.
Figure 1

By kind of business

Figure 2

Tours, attractions and museums, city by city

another tour and attraction indexmedian, 38%
0%38%75%

8 tour and attraction indexes. The median is 38%; the highest is Paris at 61%.

#IndexShareOf
1Paris FR61%189
2Hamburg DE45%278
3Lisbon PT42%324
4London GB42%304
5Berlin DE34%1,656
6Miami US24%1,306
7Tokyo JP17%243
8Budapest HU13%197

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

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).

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