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 1,401–1,500 of 3,493 · page 15 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilton No. 472 no website on recordregister id csd:4717022; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Chapais villedechapais.comregister id csd:2499020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Les Éboulements leseboulements.comregister id csd:2416048; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Aberdeen No. 373 rmofaberdeen.caregister id csd:4715018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Bon Accord bonaccord.caregister id csd:4811066; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Armour armourtownship.caregister id csd:3549019; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Sussex Corner no website on recordregister id csd:1305023; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Ubalde stubalde.comregister id csd:2434090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mossey River mosseyrivermunicipality.comregister id csd:4617072; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Casimir saint-casimir.comblockedregister id csd:2434078; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 429 (rate limited) at every rate tried, after 4 attempts | — | No | — | |
| St. François Xavier rm-stfrancois.mb.caregister id csd:4610052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides msldl.caregister id csd:2478020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Englehart englehart.caregister id csd:3554052; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Riding Mountain West no website on recordregister id csd:4616020; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Aubert saint-aubert.netblockedregister id csd:2417055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 429 (rate limited) at every rate tried, after 4 attempts | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Hénédine ste-henedine.comregister id csd:2426040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Armagh armagh.caregister id csd:2419037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 6 | |
| Winnipeg Beach winnipegbeach.caregister id csd:4618034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Nobleford nobleford.caregister id csd:4802014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pointe-aux-Outardes pointe-aux-outardes.caunreachableregister id csd:2496030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Lanigan town.lanigan.sk.caregister id csd:4711049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wembley wembley.caregister id csd:4819011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville sainte-brigide.comregister id csd:2456105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Joachim saintjoachim.qc.caregister id csd:2421020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Joseph stjosephtownship.comregister id csd:3557008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Île-à-la-Crosse sakitawak.caregister id csd:4718067; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 2 | |
| Pipestone no website on recordregister id csd:4606023; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| La Minerve municipalite.laminerve.qc.caregister id csd:2478130; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 31 | |
| Gilbert Plains no website on recordregister id csd:4617054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| McKellar mckellar.caregister id csd:3549028; 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 | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grandview (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4617058; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Noyan ville.noyan.qc.caregister id csd:2456015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Two Hills townoftwohills.comregister id csd:4810052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup municipalite.saint-hubert-de-riviere-du-loup.qc.caregister id csd:2412010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Richibucto no website on recordregister id csd:1308018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Norton no website on recordregister id csd:1305018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne saint-odilon.qc.caregister id csd:2427035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 31 | |
| Sun Peaks Mountain sunpeaksmunicipality.caregister id csd:5933045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Godmanchester godmanchester.caregister id csd:2469060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Hudson Bay townofhudsonbay.comregister id csd:4714004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wotton wotton.caregister id csd:2440017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Matagami matagami.comblockedregister id csd:2499015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Upper Island Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1001385; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Clarke's Beach townofclarkesbeach.caregister id csd:1001429; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 20 | |
| Elk Point elkpoint.cablockedregister id csd:4812016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Cape Dorset capedorset.caregister id csd:6204007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarendon clarendonqc.caregister id csd:2484015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Chute-aux-Outardes municipalitecao.caregister id csd:2496035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Sainte-Élisabeth ste-elisabeth.qc.caregister id csd:2452030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Lions Bay lionsbay.caregister id csd:5915065; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nantes munantes.qc.caregister id csd:2430045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Simon saint-simon.caregister id csd:2454090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Palmarolle palmarolle.ao.caregister id csd:2487025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Fort St. James fortstjames.caregister id csd:5951013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham st-majoriquedegrantham.qc.caregister id csd:2449095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| L'Isle-aux-Allumettes isle-aux-allumettes.comregister id csd:2484082; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| Kugluktuk no website on recordregister id csd:6208059; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lac-aux-Sables lac-aux-sables.qc.caregister id csd:2435010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Alexis st-alexis.comregister id csd:2463023; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 3 | |
| Hérouxville municipalite.herouxville.qc.caregister id csd:2435035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Édouard saintedouard.caregister id csd:2468045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Air Ronge no website on recordregister id csd:4718042; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac vsll.caregister id csd:2471090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| La Doré ladore.caregister id csd:2491050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| St.-Charles stcharlesontario.caregister id csd:3552004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| L'Isle-Verte municipalite.lisle-verte.qc.caregister id csd:2412043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Ursule sainte-ursule.caregister id csd:2451040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Canwood No. 494 no website on recordregister id csd:4716051; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| L'Avenir municipalitelavenir.qc.caregister id csd:2449025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 25 | |
| Gjoa Haven gjoahaven.netregister id csd:6208081; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 2 | |
| Hillsborough no website on recordregister id csd:1306025; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix pointe-a-la-croix.comregister id csd:2406030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 1 | |
| Reynolds rmofreynolds.comregister id csd:4601043; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Racine racine.caregister id csd:2442032; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Hugues saint-hugues.comregister id csd:2454100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 31 | |
| Radium Hot Springs radiumhotsprings.caregister id csd:5901040; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| New Carlisle new-carlisle.caregister id csd:2405040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 23 | |
| Cartwright-Roblin cartwrightroblin.caregister id csd:4604052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse st-lazare-qc.comregister id csd:2419050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Urbain-Premier saint-urbain-premier.comregister id csd:2470005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Bruderheim bruderheim.caregister id csd:4810066; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Labrecque ville.labrecque.qc.caregister id csd:2493055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Jude saint-jude.caregister id csd:2454110; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Belledune belledune.comregister id csd:1314025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | No | 32 | |
| Charlo no website on recordregister id csd:1314004; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Léonard no website on recordregister id csd:1313006; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Roxton Falls roxtonfalls.caregister id csd:2448010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Urbain sainturbain.qc.caregister id csd:2416055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Zénon saint-zenon.comregister id csd:2462080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Taylor districtoftaylor.comregister id csd:5955030; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ragueneau municipalite.ragueneau.qc.caregister id csd:2496040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Laurierville laurierville.netregister id csd:2432072; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Coldwell no website on recordregister id csd:4618044; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fort-Coulonge fortcoulonge.qc.caregister id csd:2484060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 31 | |
| Chisholm chisholm.caregister id csd:3548031; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | No | 32 | |
| Baie Verte no website on recordregister id csd:1008079; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Bas-Caraquet no website on recordregister id csd:1315027; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! saintlouisduhaha.comregister id csd:2413080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 30 | |
| Frampton frampton.caregister id csd:2426005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| St-Pierre-Jolys villagestpierrejolys.caregister id csd:4602037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 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.