YourSalon Research · Методологія
Бенчмарк знаходжуваності салонів для AI у Центральній Європі 2026
Дослідницьке питання
How technically and editorially READY is a salon's website to be understood by search and AI systems — across the four markets?
Обсяг
A repeatable technical/content readiness audit of a salon's public website against measurable signals (crawlability, semantic HTML, structured data, entity consistency, service/price detail, multilingual structure, author/freshness). It measures READINESS. It does NOT test, promise or predict whether any specific salon appears in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews or any product.
Період
2026 — single annual edition.
Ринки
Czechia, Poland, Germany, Slovakia. (A European result is not assumed to hold for markets not sampled.) — Чехія, Польща, Німеччина, Словаччина
Цільова сукупність
Salons with a public website (own domain or a hosted site) across business types in the four markets.
Запланована вибірка
Target 300–600 salon websites, distributed across countries and salon types. The final number is disclosed only after collection.
Критерії включення
- Salons with a public website (own domain or hosted builder site).
- Across business types and across own-domain vs hosted/marketplace-hosted sites.
Критерії виключення
- Salons with no website (social-profile only) — counted separately as 'no website', never scored as unready.
- Test/staging pages.
Збір даних
- We read only PUBLIC pages and their served HTML/markup. No login, no scraping of private data.
- Two parts: (1) a technical/content audit of the site against the seven dimensions below; (2) a small, repeatable, NEUTRAL set of search/AI queries recorded only to describe readiness patterns — never used to claim a salon 'ranks' or 'appears'.
- Each site logs 15+ signals: crawlable/indexable, HTML availability of main content, semantic structure, LocalBusiness/BeautySalon schema validity, address/phone/hours/priceRange, entity/contact consistency, service detail pages, visible prices and durations, hreflang/language, cities/areas in text, author and update dates, FAQ quality, image alt, independent brand mentions.
Система оцінювання
Each site scores 0–100 — the AI Discoverability Readiness Score. The direction is fixed: 100 = maximally ready to be understood by search/AI; 0 = effectively opaque to machines. This is a readiness measure, NOT a prediction of appearance in any AI or search product.
100 = maximally machine-readable/ready; 0 = effectively opaque to machines.
| Система оцінювання | % | — |
|---|---|---|
| Crawlability & indexability | 15 | Page is crawlable and indexable (no accidental noindex/robots block), Main content is available in HTML, not only after JavaScript |
| Semantic, server-rendered content | 15 | Meaningful headings and structure, Key content (services, prices, contact) present in the served HTML |
| Structured data | 20 | Valid LocalBusiness / HairSalon / BeautySalon schema, Address, telephone, opening hours, priceRange present and valid |
| Business-entity & contact consistency | 15 | Consistent name, address and phone across site, schema and profiles, One clear canonical business entity |
| Service & price detail | 15 | Service detail pages a machine can read, Visible prices and durations, not only images/PDF |
| Multilingual & local relevance | 10 | Correct hreflang / language declaration, Cities and service areas described in text |
| Author, freshness & FAQ (E-E-A-T) | 10 | Real author and update dates, Useful FAQ, image alt text and independent brand mentions |
Формули
- Dimension score:
normalized indicator points within the dimension weight - AI Discoverability Readiness Score:
Σ dimension scores (0–100, higher = readier)
Відсутні дані
A signal that cannot be assessed (e.g. no service pages) is recorded with its reason, not silently scored zero; the 'no website' rate is reported separately.
Контроль якості
- Structured-data validity is checked with a standard validator, not judged by eye.
- A random subset is re-audited by a second person and on a second device/network; disagreements are reconciled.
- The neutral query set is fixed in advance and logged verbatim so the readiness patterns are reproducible.
Можливі викривлення
- Website builder / hosting mix differs by country and can shift a country's average — reported alongside the mix.
- Search and AI systems change frequently; a readiness snapshot is point-in-time.
Обмеження
- Readiness is not ranking: a high score does NOT mean a salon appears in ChatGPT, Google AI or search — Google itself states structured data does not guarantee rich results.
- Public pages only; server logs and analytics are out of scope.
- No salon is named as 'worst'; only aggregated data and anonymized examples are published.
Конфіденційність
- Only public pages are read; no personal data is collected.
- Only aggregated results and anonymized examples are published.
Політика виправлень
A salon or platform may request a correction with evidence before or after publication; verified corrections are logged.
Політика оновлень
Annual edition; the change log records every update and correction.
Контакт
Methodology and media questions: info@yoursalon.cz
Джерела та методологія
- [1] LocalBusiness — schema.org type — Schema.org. https://schema.org/LocalBusiness(checked 2026-07-05)LocalBusiness vocabulary; HealthAndBeautyBusiness → HairSalon/BeautySalon/NailSalon are subtypes. Salon-relevant properties: name, address, telephone, openingHours, priceRange, geo. Technical basis for the schema/structured-data signals in the AI Discoverability Benchmark.
- [2] Local business (LocalBusiness) structured data — Google Search Central — Google (Search Central). https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/local-business(checked 2026-07-05)Google's guidance on LocalBusiness structured data (required: name, address; recommended: telephone, url, openingHoursSpecification, geo, priceRange). Google explicitly states it 'does not guarantee that features that consume structured data will show up in search results' — supports the readiness-not-guarantee framing of the AI Discoverability Benchmark.