Search & local discovery
Salon homepages blank until scripts run
33% of independent US salons' own websites arrive with almost no readable text, so AI assistants and search tools that read a page as it arrives see close to nothing.
Across 667 salon-owned websites. 94 of 102 Square Online sites read this way.
This figure is load-bearing across 1 page on SalonAI. See where, below.
Source
Where this number comes from. The end of the reference chain.
Salon Website Study 2026: 1,500 independent US salons' websites checked
SalonAI/2026/study
Where this number is used
Every page on SalonAI that leans on this figure. This is the point: a number is not a dead end, it is a node, and you can see exactly what it supports and follow it up the hierarchy.
Original research (1)
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