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 1,001–1,100 of 3,493 · page 11 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atikokan atikokan.caregister id csd:3559001; 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 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands townofnemi.on.caregister id csd:3551017; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Présentation municipalitelapresentation.qc.caregister id csd:2454035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 24 | |
| Pilot Butte pilotbutte.caregister id csd:4706031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Spaniard's Bay no website on recordregister id csd:1001396; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Elzéar (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2426022) st-elzear.caregister id csd:2426022; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Sicamous sicamous.cablockedregister id csd:5939045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Turner Valley no website on recordregister id csd:4806009; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Grimshaw grimshaw.caregister id csd:4819074; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Russell-Binscarth russellbinscarth.comregister id csd:4616030; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Grand Manan villageofgrandmanan.comblockedregister id csd:1302052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Front of Yonge mallorytown.caregister id csd:3507017; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Martin st-martin.qc.caregister id csd:2429045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 1 | |
| Algonquin Highlands algonquinhighlands.caregister id csd:3546018; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wickham wickham.caregister id csd:2449040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse saint-charles.caregister id csd:2419097; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Côme stcomelanaudiere.caregister id csd:2462065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Chrysostome mun-sc.caregister id csd:2469017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu saintrochderichelieu.qc.caregister id csd:2453040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Black River-Matheson blackriver-matheson.comregister id csd:3556014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Laurier-Station laurierstation.caregister id csd:2433060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Scott (Quebec) municipalitescott.comregister id csd:2426048; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Bedford (Quebec) (Ville) ville.bedford.qc.caregister id csd:2446035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Huntingdon villehuntingdon.comregister id csd:2469055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Meadow Lake No. 588 rmofmeadowlake.comblockedregister id csd:4717054; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Souris-Glenwood no website on recordregister id csd:4607052; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Dufferin no website on recordregister id csd:4603072; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Bernard saint-bernard.quebecregister id csd:2426055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Addington Highlands addingtonhighlands.caregister id csd:3511035; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Léonard-d'Aston saint-leonard-daston.netregister id csd:2450042; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 31 | |
| Sainte-Croix saintecroix.caregister id csd:2433102; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Ronge laronge.caregister id csd:4718041; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Grey rmofgrey.caregister id csd:4609018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cap-Chat cap-chat.caregister id csd:2404047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 16 | |
| Tofino tofino.caregister id csd:5923025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Loche no website on recordregister id csd:4718074; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Bouctouche ville.bouctouche.nb.caregister id csd:1308005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rosetown rosetown.caregister id csd:4712006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 17 | |
| North Shore no website on recordregister id csd:1102067; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Hébertville no website on recordregister id csd:2493020; 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-Michel-des-Saints smds.quebecregister id csd:2462085; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Unity townofunity.comregister id csd:4713074; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 32 | |
| Rivière-Beaudette riviere-beaudette.comregister id csd:2471005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 22 | |
| Highlands highlands.caregister id csd:5917049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pohénégamook villepohenegamook.caregister id csd:2413095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Magrath magrath.caregister id csd:4803002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Rosthern No. 403 rmofrosthern.caregister id csd:4715031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Holyrood no website on recordregister id csd:1001472; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Rimbey rimbey.comblockedregister id csd:4808044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint-François-Xavier-de-Brompton sfxb.qc.caregister id csd:2442020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Ville-Marie villevillemarie.orgregister id csd:2485025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 31 | |
| Saint-Raphaël saint-raphael.caregister id csd:2419082; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel saintevictoiredesorel.qc.caregister id csd:2453025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Berwick berwick.caregister id csd:1207004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Damase (Quebec) (Municipalité) st-damase.qc.caregister id csd:2454017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cap-Pelé no website on recordregister id csd:1307007; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Emerson-Franklin emersonfranklin.comregister id csd:4602024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Sexsmith sexsmith.caregister id csd:4819014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Thècle ste-thecle.qc.caregister id csd:2435050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards killaloe-hagarty-richards.caregister id csd:3547033; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trenton town.trenton.ns.caregister id csd:1212016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 31 | |
| Pembina no website on recordregister id csd:4604034; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Chase chasebc.caregister id csd:5933054; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Tumbler Ridge districtoftumblerridge.caregister id csd:5955003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) (Town) townoflunenburg.caregister id csd:1206006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hanna hanna.caregister id csd:4804011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Damien st-damien.comregister id csd:2462075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Léry lery.caregister id csd:2467055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Clearwater districtofclearwater.comunreachableregister id csd:5933067; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Salisbury salisburynb.caregister id csd:1307028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| High Prairie highprairie.caregister id csd:4817021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gracefield gracefield.caregister id csd:2483032; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Polycarpe stpolycarpe.caregister id csd:2471020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Témiscaming temiscaming.netunreachableregister id csd:2485005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove lbmcoc.caregister id csd:1001511; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mandeville mandeville.caregister id csd:2452095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Disraeli (Quebec) (Ville) villededisraeli.caregister id csd:2431015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 30 | |
| Daveluyville ville.daveluyville.qc.caregister id csd:2439152; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Brooke-Alvinston brookealvinston.comregister id csd:3538015; 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 | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Anmore anmore.comregister id csd:5915038; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Port McNeill portmcneill.caregister id csd:5943012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Esterhazy townofesterhazy.caregister id csd:4705052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu stdenissurrichelieu.comregister id csd:2457068; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Mathieu saint-mathieu.comregister id csd:2467005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saddle Hills County saddlehills.ab.caregister id csd:4819059; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Outlook no website on recordregister id csd:4711027; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Assiniboia assiniboia.netregister id csd:4703036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Fossambault-sur-le-Lac fossambault-sur-le-lac.comregister id csd:2422010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce saint-ephrem.comregister id csd:2429112; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Maskinongé mun-maskinonge.caregister id csd:2451008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Victor st-victor.qc.caregister id csd:2427008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Boissevain-Morton no website on recordregister id csd:4605032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Waterville waterville.caregister id csd:2444080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Lillooet lillooet.caregister id csd:5931026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Chetwynd gochetwynd.comregister id csd:5955010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| North Frontenac northfrontenac.caregister id csd:3510045; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gore cantondegore.qc.caregister id csd:2476025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Brigham brigham.caregister id csd:2446090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Eastman eastman.quebecregister id csd:2445093; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Pamphile saintpamphile.caregister id csd:2417010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | 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.