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 901–1,000 of 3,493 · page 10 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska saint-christophe-darthabaska.caregister id csd:2439060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| North Algona Wilberforce nalgonawil.comregister id csd:3547070; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Pictou townofpictou.caregister id csd:1212004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cap-Saint-Ignace capsaintignace.caregister id csd:2418045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Percé ville.perce.qc.caregister id csd:2402005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hillsburg-Roblin-Shell River roblinmanitoba.comregister id csd:4616048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Thurso ville.thurso.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2480050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Bishop's Falls no website on recordregister id csd:1006019; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Clermont (Quebec) (Ville) ville.clermont.qc.caregister id csd:2415035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil stada.caregister id csd:2476008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Houston houston.caregister id csd:5951034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Morris (Manitoba) (Rural municipality) no website on recordregister id csd:4603065; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Athens athenstownship.caregister id csd:3507042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Three Hills threehills.caregister id csd:4805048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Thorhild County thorhildcounty.comregister id csd:4813036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Liboire st-liboire.caregister id csd:2454072; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Paspébiac villepaspebiac.caregister id csd:2405032; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Enderby cityofenderby.comregister id csd:5937033; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard stanaclet.qc.caregister id csd:2410030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Stoke stoke.caregister id csd:2442005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Minburn County No. 27 minburncounty.ab.caregister id csd:4810026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Adelaide-Metcalfe adelaidemetcalfe.on.caregister id csd:3539047; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| North Cypress-Langford no website on recordregister id csd:4607066; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Clear Hills clearhillscounty.ab.cablockedregister id csd:4817062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Alexis-des-Monts saint-alexis-des-monts.caunreachableregister id csd:2451065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-David-de-Falardeau villefalardeau.caregister id csd:2494245; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 25 | |
| Admaston/Bromley admastonbromley.comregister id csd:3547043; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Normandin ville.normandin.qc.caregister id csd:2492040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Rankin Inlet rankininlet.caregister id csd:6205017; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Beaumont (Quebec) beaumont-qc.comregister id csd:2419105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Springdale townofspringdale.caregister id csd:1008061; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tisdale tisdale.caregister id csd:4714044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil saint-mathieu-de-beloeil.comregister id csd:2457045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Gilles st-gilles.qc.caregister id csd:2433035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 3 | |
| Lorne rmoflorne.caregister id csd:4604064; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Adstock adstock.caregister id csd:2431056; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Bruno no website on recordregister id csd:2493030; Not in the current Répertoire des municipalités under this code (merged or renamed since 2021). No website is published for it in the Répertoire des municipalités and Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières villestmarc.comregister id csd:2434065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Princeton princeton.caregister id csd:5907024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Forestville forestville.caregister id csd:2495045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Ste. Anne (Manitoba) (Town) steannemb.caregister id csd:4602061; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Ange-Gardien municipalite.ange-gardien.qc.caregister id csd:2455008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré sainteannedebeaupre.comregister id csd:2421030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford saintpauldabbotsford.qc.caregister id csd:2455015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lac-des-Écorces lacdesecorces.cablockedregister id csd:2479078; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Laurentian Hills laurentianhills.caregister id csd:3547090; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dégelis degelis.caregister id csd:2413005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Grenville-sur-la-Rouge gslr.caregister id csd:2476052; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| North Kawartha northkawartha.on.caregister id csd:3515037; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Marie-Madeleine sainte-marie-madeleine.caregister id csd:2454030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Coalhurst coalhurst.caregister id csd:4802013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Greater Madawaska greatermadawaska.comregister id csd:3547008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arviat arviat.caregister id csd:6205015; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 20 | |
| Lesser Slave River No. 124 mdlsr.caregister id csd:4817033; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Luce sainteluce.caregister id csd:2409092; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| French River / Rivière des Français frenchriver.caregister id csd:3552001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Enniskillen enniskillen.caregister id csd:3538016; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stanstead (Quebec) (Ville) stanstead.caunreachableregister id csd:2445008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Fairview fairview.caregister id csd:4819068; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yamachiche yamachiche.caregister id csd:2451020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Gabriel ville.stgabriel.qc.caregister id csd:2452080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 9 | |
| Vanscoy No. 345 no website on recordregister id csd:4712054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Harbour Grace hrgrace.caregister id csd:1001379; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| East Garafraxa eastgarafraxa.caregister id csd:3522001; 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 | |
| Senneterre (Quebec) (Ville) ville.senneterre.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2489040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Botwood no website on recordregister id csd:1006022; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Isidore (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) municipalite.saint-isidore.qc.caregister id csd:2467040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Labelle municipalite.labelle.qc.caregister id csd:2478120; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Maria mariaquebec.comregister id csd:2406005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Prime saint-prime.caregister id csd:2491035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Swan Valley West no website on recordregister id csd:4620042; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Athabasca athabasca.caregister id csd:4813048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cocagne no website on recordregister id csd:1308002; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Anicet stanicet.comregister id csd:2469070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elkford elkford.caregister id csd:5901003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Wallace-Woodworth no website on recordregister id csd:4606031; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Macamic villemacamic.qc.caregister id csd:2487058; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 32 | |
| McDougall municipalityofmcdougall.comregister id csd:3549031; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | No | 1 | |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley sainte-catherine-de-hatley.caregister id csd:2445060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Dominique st-dominique.caregister id csd:2454060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Minnedosa minnedosa.comregister id csd:4615075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bonaventure villebonaventure.caregister id csd:2405045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel msads.caunreachableregister id csd:2453065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Black Diamond no website on recordregister id csd:4806011; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Ferme-Neuve municipalite.ferme-neuve.qc.caregister id csd:2479097; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Basile saintbasile.qc.caregister id csd:2434038; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lacolle lacolle.comregister id csd:2456023; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Markstay-Warren markstay-warren.caregister id csd:3552013; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Wawa wawa.ccregister id csd:3557076; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rougemont rougemont.caunreachableregister id csd:2455037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon saintgabrieldebrandon.comregister id csd:2452085; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 2 | |
| Saint-Alexandre saint-alexandre.caregister id csd:2456055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Shippagan shippagan.caregister id csd:1315031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sundre sundre.comregister id csd:4806036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Kuujjuaq nvkuujjuaq.caregister id csd:2499095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Weedon weedon.caregister id csd:2441098; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 32 | |
| Moosomin moosomin.comregister id csd:4705004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Plessisville (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) no website on recordregister id csd:2432045; Not in the current Répertoire des municipalités under this code (merged or renamed since 2021). No website is published for it in the Répertoire des municipalités and Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Perry townshipofperry.caregister id csd:3549014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Clotilde ste-clotilde.caregister id csd:2468020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 |
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.