25% of business websites are ready for AI agents

170,576 scanned business websites in 675 indexes, as scanned by 17 October 2026.

Main points

That is 25% of 170,576 scanned business websites.
By kind of business: highest among restaurants (32%), lowest among tours, attractions and museums (12%).
Among 43 cafe and bar indexes, Brisbane is highest at 38%; the median is 23%.

Figure 1

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	32%	79,214
cafes and bars	23%	32,657
hairdressers and beauty salons	14%	16,993
dentists, clinics and vets	16%	31,259
tours, attractions and museums	12%	10,453

Figure 2

Cafes and bars, city by city

another cafe and bar indexmedian, 23%

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43 cafe and bar indexes. The median is 23%; the highest is Brisbane at 38%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Brisbane AU	38%	257
2	Boston US	38%	246
3	London GB	38%	2,438
4	Paris FR	37%	797
5	Washington, DC US	35%	453
6	Sydney AU	34%	705
7	Melbourne AU	34%	912
8	Singapore SG	32%	214
9	Vancouver CA	32%	376
10	Edinburgh GB	31%	373

All 43 cafe and bar indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Brisbane AU	38%	257
2	Boston US	38%	246
3	London GB	38%	2,438
4	Paris FR	37%	797
5	Washington, DC US	35%	453
6	Sydney AU	34%	705
7	Melbourne AU	34%	912
8	Singapore SG	32%	214
9	Vancouver CA	32%	376
10	Edinburgh GB	31%	373
11	New York US	31%	1,567
12	Brussels BE	31%	256
13	Seattle US	30%	635
14	Chicago US	29%	711
15	Denver US	29%	289
16	San Francisco US	28%	386
17	Dublin IE	27%	361
18	Toronto CA	26%	375
19	San Diego US	25%	246
20	Copenhagen DK	24%	604
21	Philadelphia US	24%	224
22	Madrid ES	23%	281
23	Montreal CA	23%	271
24	Los Angeles US	22%	470
25	Miami US	21%	845
26	Vienna AT	21%	635
27	Amsterdam NL	21%	522
28	Hamburg DE	18%	704
29	Helsinki FI	18%	298
30	Lisbon PT	17%	398
31	Barcelona ES	16%	215
32	Rome IT	16%	207
33	Milan IT	15%	247
34	Stockholm SE	15%	427
35	Munich DE	14%	484
36	Stuttgart DE	14%	253
37	Cologne DE	14%	373
38	Prague CZ	13%	545
39	Zurich CH	12%	346
40	Berlin DE	11%	2,506
41	Frankfurt DE	9.0%	279
42	Budapest HU	7.3%	409
43	Tokyo JP	6.1%	311

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
Ready means grade A or B on the Agent-Direct Score, the open method on /methodology. Provisional grades are included.

Cite this

25% of business websites are ready for AI agents (The Direct Index, 17 October 2026, directindex.org/stats/grade-ab).

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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.