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19% of business websites outside English-speaking countries declare an English version, in the 484 indexes read so far

93,007 business websites read in 484 indexes outside English-speaking countries, as of 17 October 2026. 73 of 675 indexes have enough pages read to be compared so far.

Main points

That is 19% of 93,007 business websites read outside English-speaking countries.
By kind of business: highest among tours, attractions and museums (40%), lowest among hairdressers and beauty salons (10%).
Among 44 restaurant indexes, Barcelona is highest at 49%; the median is 21%.

Figure 1

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	21%	42,355
cafes and bars	19%	14,875
hairdressers and beauty salons	10%	10,099
dentists, clinics and vets	11%	19,347
tours, attractions and museums	40%	6,331

Figure 2

Restaurants, city by city

another restaurant indexmedian, 21%

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44 restaurant indexes. The median is 21%; the highest is Barcelona at 49%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Barcelona ES	49%	554
2	Budapest HU	42%	740
3	Lisbon PT	38%	875
4	Porto PT	36%	388
5	Brussels BE	35%	683
6	Prague CZ	35%	1,063
7	Paris FR	34%	2,420
8	Nice FR	34%	304
9	Helsinki FI	33%	709
10	Verona IT	31%	538

All 44 restaurant indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Barcelona ES	49%	554
2	Budapest HU	42%	740
3	Lisbon PT	38%	875
4	Porto PT	36%	388
5	Brussels BE	35%	683
6	Prague CZ	35%	1,063
7	Paris FR	34%	2,420
8	Nice FR	34%	304
9	Helsinki FI	33%	709
10	Verona IT	31%	538
11	Amsterdam NL	30%	1,081
12	Lyon FR	29%	685
13	Rome IT	28%	636
14	Milan IT	26%	838
15	Warsaw PL	26%	542
16	Utrecht NL	24%	485
17	Madrid ES	23%	865
18	Copenhagen DK	23%	947
19	Strasbourg FR	23%	329
20	The Hague NL	22%	467
20	Zurich CH	22%	633
22	Antwerp BE	21%	359
23	Ghent BE	21%	396
24	Tokyo JP	20%	386
25	Rotterdam NL	20%	345
26	Vienna AT	20%	2,239
27	Oslo NO	19%	373
28	Stockholm SE	16%	1,218
29	Berlin DE	14%	3,991
30	Munich DE	14%	1,494
31	Gothenburg SE	13%	382
32	Frankfurt DE	12%	808
33	Düsseldorf DE	11%	497
33	Nuremberg DE	11%	516
33	Toulouse FR	11%	368
36	Cologne DE	10%	831
37	Stuttgart DE	9.7%	668
38	Hamburg DE	9.6%	1,743
38	Nantes FR	9.6%	301
40	Hanover DE	9.4%	394
41	Dresden DE	9.3%	333
42	Singapore SG	8.6%	405
43	Leipzig DE	8.2%	319
44	Bremen DE	8.1%	393

Indexes are compared once 300 pages, and half of the scanned sites, have been read. The "Of" column is the base each figure rests on.

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About these numbers
Counted when a page declares English beside another language, by a language link (hreflang) or a visible switcher on the site. A page that only says lang="en" doesn't count, because templates set that by default. Machine translations count; whether the English is good isn't measured.

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19% of business websites outside English-speaking countries declare an English version, in the 484 indexes read so far (The Direct Index, 17 October 2026, directindex.org/stats/english).

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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.