25% of business websites are ready for AI agents

176,262 scanned business websites in 675 indexes, as scanned by 17 October 2026.

Main points

That is 25% of 176,262 scanned business websites.
By kind of business: highest among restaurants (32%), lowest among tours, attractions and museums (12%).
Among 33 clinic indexes, Melbourne is highest at 39%; the median is 17%.

Figure 1

By kind of business

Kind	Share	Of
restaurants	32%	82,167
cafes and bars	23%	32,767
hairdressers and beauty salons	15%	19,330
dentists, clinics and vets	16%	31,283
tours, attractions and museums	12%	10,715

Figure 2

Dentists, clinics and vets, city by city

another clinic indexmedian, 17%

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33 clinic indexes. The median is 17%; the highest is Melbourne at 39%.

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Melbourne AU	39%	470
2	Sydney AU	34%	307
3	Brisbane AU	33%	229
4	Seattle US	32%	229
5	New York US	31%	653
6	Los Angeles US	31%	237
7	Toronto CA	27%	528
8	Dallas US	26%	229
9	London GB	24%	1,006
10	Amsterdam NL	24%	258

All 33 clinic indexes

#	Index	Share	Of
1	Melbourne AU	39%	470
2	Sydney AU	34%	307
3	Brisbane AU	33%	229
4	Seattle US	32%	229
5	New York US	31%	653
6	Los Angeles US	31%	237
7	Toronto CA	27%	528
8	Dallas US	26%	229
9	London GB	24%	1,006
10	Amsterdam NL	24%	258
11	Graz AT	23%	246
12	Miami US	23%	2,977
13	Calgary CA	21%	205
14	Zurich CH	20%	224
15	Madrid ES	18%	306
16	Vienna AT	17%	889
17	Lisbon PT	17%	502
18	Leipzig DE	15%	318
19	Düsseldorf DE	14%	257
20	Munich DE	12%	966
21	Frankfurt DE	11%	373
22	Stuttgart DE	10%	378
23	Cologne DE	9.5%	486
24	Hanover DE	9.3%	377
25	Hamburg DE	7.8%	1,104
25	Tokyo JP	7.8%	269
27	Nuremberg DE	7.4%	215
28	Berlin DE	7.3%	7,801
29	Warsaw PL	4.8%	438
30	Bremen DE	4.3%	256
31	Dresden DE	3.3%	366
32	Dortmund DE	2.7%	333
33	Budapest HU	1.3%	314

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.