Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 24,504
- 5th of 15 measured in Knowledge/Travel, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- 36,158 → 24,504 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Deploys
- 19 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 24 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 14.3 KB · llms-full.txt 3.5 MB
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 21 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- FAQPage, Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 180 page links
- Markdown links in the site’s llms.txt
- Search
- Search box on the homepage
Built
Counted from the site's own database every week, last on 24 Oct 2026. A figure we cannot read is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Active listings
- 25,905
- shisha venues, shops and delivery services
- Countries and territories
- 91
- with an active listing
- Cities
- 6,327
- as named in this directory's records
- Listing types
- 3
- Listings with a website
- 7,943
- 30.7% of active listings
- Listings with opening hours
- 22,021
- 85.0% of active listings
- Listings with a phone number
- 20,642
- 79.7% of active listings
- Listings with an approved image
- 19,402
- 74.9% of active listings
- Approved images
- 23,461
- image rows, several per listing
- Rated listings
- 23,890
- 92.2% of active listings
- Embeddings stored
- 25,905
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
- 1
Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
- 5
Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“Names, addresses, opening hours, ratings and per-person price ranges come from Google Maps listings. Price ranges are shown as Google reports them, not as a menu price.”
“Flavour lists, where a venue has one, come from the venue’s own website and are checked line by line against that page. Many venues have none.”
“Venue descriptions and the “what visitors say” summaries are partly machine-written, from a venue’s own website text and from Google reviews. The review summaries say they are summaries; descriptions are not labelled one by one, so read them as a guide and check the venue’s own details. We only generate text where there is source material to work from.”
“Closures are checked against Google’s listing status. A venue Google reports as permanently closed is marked closed on its page.”
“The data is refreshed by scheduled jobs: one re-checks each venue’s Google listing for rating, hours and price range roughly every 90 days; one writes descriptions and review summaries where source text exists; and closure checks are run as separate passes.”
“We don’t sell placement. No venue pays to be listed or to appear higher.”
“We don’t make our own “best of” judgements. Where a page orders venues, such as a city’s best list, the order comes from Google ratings weighted by how many ratings a venue has.”
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Timeline
36,158 → 24,504 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 36,158 |
| 2026-10-10 | 26,102 |
| 2026-10-18 | 26,035 |
| 2026-10-25 | 24,504 |
- 30 Sep 202636,158 pages
- 10 Oct 202626,102 pages
- 18 Oct 202626,035 pages
- 25 Oct 202624,504 pages