Census Q4 2026: Canada
3,063 of 4,641 organizations returned a score.
The run is finished. The other 101 refused the scanner, timed out, or failed outright, and no further attempt is coming. Every share below is out of what was actually scanned, never out of the cohort size. That a site cannot be read at all is itself a result.
The Canada census, by kind of organization
Each is measured on its own, and none is added to another: a figure across them would describe whichever has the most sites.
Government
- Canada Regional Governments ca-regional-governments median 57 · 130 of 148 scored
- Canada Municipalities ca-municipalities median 53 · 2,366 of 3,493 scored
Nonprofits
- Canada Charities ca-charities median 57 · 567 of 1,000 scored
Government, by level
Every government site in the Census as one figure, with the same sites split by the level of government beneath it. A site with no website on record, one we could not reach and one that turned us away are counted in the first column and never in a median.
| Level | Sites | Scored | Median and spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| All government | 3,611 | 2,467 |
median 54
|
| Regional | 148 | 130 |
median 57
|
| Municipal | 3,463 | 2,337 |
median 53
|
Gated means a site failed RCH-1 or RCH-2: it blocks AI crawlers outright, so nothing else about it can be reached. The score is capped rather than averaged away, because a site nothing can read is not partly ready.
The tests almost nobody passes
The share is out of the sites each test actually applied to. A test that was N/A for a site isn’t counted against it, and the count is shown so a share with a small denominator can’t masquerade as a sector finding.
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT-3 | If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file? | 5 | 2 | |
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 3063 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 3063 | 0 | |
| EXT-15 | Can an AI agent find out how to sign in to your site? | 5 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 3063 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 3008 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 34 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 100 | 0 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 4 | 1 | |
| UND-9 | If a page is behind a paywall, does it say so? | 4 | 2 |
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 3063 | 3 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 2117 | 2 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 2681 | 0 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 3063 | 2 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 368 | 0 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 2014 | 1 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 3062 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 3063 | 0 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 3062 | 2 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 3063 | 0 |
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSR-7 | Are you set up in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and do you read their AI reports? | 3063 | 0 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
The data, and how to license it
Every site row carries the SHA-256 of the result behind its score, recorded when the scan finished rather than computed now, so a number on this page traces to a file, and that file to a run.
| File | What is in it |
|---|---|
| summary.json | The headline figures on these pages, including the band distributions and the N/A reasons the tables above summarize. It holds nothing about a named site. |
| Site-by-site data | Each site’s score and results, every cohort’s rows. Look any site up on these pages. A bulk copy is licensed from TEN7 for a fee: hello@readinessindex.io. |
Readiness Index Census Q4 2026, TEN7, scored against Index 12.1 (2026-10-21).
Headline figures CC BY 4.0;
site-by-site data TEN7 Census License
Generated 2026-11-06
See the Census methodology and the licence.