Canada Municipalities
Search every site in this cohortca-municipalities
Every municipal government in Canada, largest by population first.
Median score
53
across 2366 sites
Middle half
45–59
spread around the median
Full range
25–77
lowest to highest
Gated
1114 of 2366
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | Municipal governments of Canada, Statistics Canada; Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec; Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing; Wikidata (2021 Census (table 98-10-0002-01, released 2022-02-09); MAMH Répertoire dataset modified 2026-10-30; Ontario MMAH list dated 2022-10-05; Wikidata 2026-11-02) |
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| License | Statistics Canada Open Licence; Répertoire des municipalités CC BY 4.0 (Données Québec); Ontario's list of municipalities is a data.ontario.ca dataset under the Open Government Licence – Ontario (read 2026-11-05); Wikidata CC0 1.0. Every one permits commercial republishing with attribution. |
| Cite as | Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec, Répertoire des municipalités du Québec, Données Québec, CC BY 4.0. Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0002-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. |
| How we filtered it | Every 2021 census subdivision whose Standard Geographical Classification type is municipal (36 types, listed in the script); reserves, settlements, unorganized territories and other non-municipal types excluded. source_id is the CSD code; ranked by 2021 Census population. Addresses: Quebec from the MAMH Répertoire; Ontario from the MMAH list matched on name and census division; otherwise Wikidata P856 on the CSD code (P3012). Directory and social addresses dropped. |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Distribution
Where the 2366 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weak | 1355 | 57.3% | |
| Not ready | 431 | 18.2% | |
| Adequate | 571 | 24.1% | |
| Strong | 9 | 0.4% |
By dimension
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
72% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
50% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
25% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
57% |
How much of each site we read
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
33 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
Where this cohort fails
13 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT-3 | If you have a public API, is it described in a standard file? | 4 | 2 | |
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 2366 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 2366 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 2041 | 0 | |
| EXT-15 | Can an AI agent find out how to sign in to your site? | 4 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 2366 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 2326 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 15 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 90 | 0 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 2 | 1 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 2366 | 2 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 2366 | 3 | |
| UND-9 | If a page is behind a paywall, does it say so? | 2 | 2 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 1583 | 2 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 319 | 0 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 2366 | 2 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 1510 | 1 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 2366 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 2366 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 2366 | 0 |
Common — 90 to 95%
| 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? | 2366 | 0 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 3,493, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
Showing 1–100 of 3,493 · page 1 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto toronto.caregister id csd:3520005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Montréal montreal.caregister id csd:2466023; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| Calgary no website on recordregister id csd:4806016; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Ottawa ottawa.cablockedregister id csd:3506008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root; not measured: HTTP 403 (Imperva) | — | No | — | |
| Edmonton edmonton.caregister id csd:4811061; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Winnipeg winnipeg.caregister id csd:4611040; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mississauga mississauga.caregister id csd:3521005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Vancouver vancouver.cablockedregister id csd:5915022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Brampton brampton.caregister id csd:3521010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Hamilton (Ontario) (City / Cité) hamilton.caregister id csd:3525005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Surrey surrey.caregister id csd:5915004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Québec ville.quebec.qc.caregister id csd:2423027; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Halifax halifax.caregister id csd:1209034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata gives 2 official websites for this code; the plain host was taken over a language subdomain, then the shorter host | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Laval laval.cablockedregister id csd:2465005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| London london.caregister id csd:3539036; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Markham markham.caregister id csd:3519036; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Vaughan city.vaughan.on.cablockedregister id csd:3519028; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Gatineau gatineau.caregister id csd:2481017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 31 | |
| Saskatoon saskatoon.caregister id csd:4711066; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Kitchener kitchener.caregister id csd:3530013; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Longueuil longueuil.quebecregister id csd:2458227; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Burnaby burnaby.caregister id csd:5915025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Windsor (Ontario) citywindsor.caregister id csd:3537039; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Regina regina.caregister id csd:4706027; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Oakville oakville.caregister id csd:3524001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 13 | |
| Richmond (British Columbia) richmond.caregister id csd:5915015; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Richmond Hill richmondhill.caregister id csd:3519038; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Burlington (Ontario) burlington.caregister id csd:3524002; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oshawa oshawa.caregister id csd:3518013; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sherbrooke (Quebec) sherbrooke.caregister id csd:2443027; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury greatersudbury.caregister id csd:3553005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Abbotsford abbotsford.caregister id csd:5909052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Lévis ville.levis.qc.caregister id csd:2425213; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 77 | No | 1 | |
| Coquitlam coquitlam.caregister id csd:5915034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 22 | |
| Barrie barrie.caregister id csd:3543042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saguenay ville.saguenay.caregister id csd:2494068; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Kelowna kelowna.cablockedregister id csd:5935010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Guelph guelph.cablockedregister id csd:3523008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Trois-Rivières v3r.netregister id csd:2437067; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 31 | |
| Whitby whitby.caregister id csd:3518009; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cambridge cambridge.caregister id csd:3530010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Catharines stcatharines.caregister id csd:3526053; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Milton milton.caregister id csd:3524009; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Langley (British Columbia) (District municipality) tol.caregister id csd:5915001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 1 | |
| Kingston (Ontario) cityofkingston.caregister id csd:3510010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ajax ajax.caregister id csd:3518005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Waterloo (Ontario) city.waterloo.on.caregister id csd:3530016; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Terrebonne terrebonne.cablockedregister id csd:2464008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saanich saanich.caregister id csd:5917021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| St. John's stjohns.caregister id csd:1001519; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Thunder Bay thunderbay.caregister id csd:3558004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Delta delta.caregister id csd:5915011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Brantford brantford.caregister id csd:3529006; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chatham-Kent chatham-kent.caregister id csd:3536020; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Clarington clarington.netregister id csd:3518017; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Red Deer reddeer.caregister id csd:4808011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 14 | |
| Nanaimo nanaimo.caregister id csd:5921007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Strathcona County strathcona.caregister id csd:4811052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Pickering pickering.caregister id csd:3518001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lethbridge lethbridge.caregister id csd:4802012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Kamloops kamloops.caregister id csd:5933042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu sjsr.caregister id csd:2456083; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Niagara Falls niagarafalls.cablockedregister id csd:3526043; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Cape Breton cbrm.ns.caregister id csd:1217030; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Chilliwack chilliwack.comregister id csd:5909020; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Victoria (British Columbia) victoria.caregister id csd:5917034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brossard ville.brossard.qc.caregister id csd:2458007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Maple Ridge mapleridge.caregister id csd:5915075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Vancouver (British Columbia) (District municipality) dnv.orgregister id csd:5915046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Newmarket newmarket.caregister id csd:3519048; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Repentigny repentigny.caregister id csd:2460013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Peterborough peterborough.caregister id csd:3515014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Jérôme vsj.caregister id csd:2475017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Moncton moncton.caregister id csd:1307022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Drummondville drummondville.caregister id csd:2449058; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 31 | |
| Kawartha Lakes city.kawarthalakes.on.caregister id csd:3516010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| New Westminster newwestcity.caregister id csd:5915029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Prince George princegeorge.caregister id csd:5953023; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Caledon town.caledon.on.caregister id csd:3521024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Airdrie airdrie.caregister id csd:4806021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wood Buffalo woodbuffalo.ab.caregister id csd:4816037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sault Ste. Marie saultstemarie.caregister id csd:3557061; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sarnia sarnia.caregister id csd:3538030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint John saintjohn.caregister id csd:1301006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Granby granby.caregister id csd:2447017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| St. Albert stalbert.caregister id csd:4811062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 15 | |
| Norfolk County norfolkcounty.caregister id csd:3528052; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Grande Prairie cityofgp.comregister id csd:4819012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Medicine Hat medicinehat.caregister id csd:4801006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fredericton fredericton.caregister id csd:1310032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Halton Hills haltonhills.caregister id csd:3524015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Aurora aurora.caregister id csd:3519046; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Port Coquitlam portcoquitlam.caregister id csd:5915039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Mirabel ville.mirabel.qc.caregister id csd:2474005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 3 | |
| Blainville blainville.caregister id csd:2473015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| North Vancouver (British Columbia) (City) cnv.orgregister id csd:5915051; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Hyacinthe st-hyacinthe.caregister id csd:2454048; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| Welland welland.caregister id csd:3526032; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Belleville belleville.caregister id csd:3512005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Bay cityofnorthbay.caregister id csd:3548044; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 1 |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.