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 1,501–1,600 of 3,493 · page 16 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laird No. 404 no website on recordregister id csd:4715026; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Alberton (Prince Edward Island) townofalberton.caregister id csd:1103052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 32 | |
| Lamèque no website on recordregister id csd:1315032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| L'Anse-Saint-Jean lanse-saint-jean.caregister id csd:2494210; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Lakeland No. 521 lakeland521.caregister id csd:4715075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage municipalite.notre-dame-du-portage.qc.caregister id csd:2412080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Regina Beach reginabeach.caregister id csd:4706058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Lorrainville lorrainville.caregister id csd:2485037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Oxbow oxbow.caregister id csd:4701014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Vauxhall town.vauxhall.ab.caregister id csd:4802029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fortune townoffortune.caregister id csd:1002018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 31 | |
| Bowden town.bowden.ab.caregister id csd:4808006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arborg no website on recordregister id csd:4618074; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Estevan No. 5 rmestevan.caregister id csd:4701022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Montcalm (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4603030; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Grahamdale no website on recordregister id csd:4618060; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Beaver River No. 622 rmofbeaverriver622.caregister id csd:4717062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 10 | |
| Elton no website on recordregister id csd:4607071; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Rosser no website on recordregister id csd:4614015; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wadena townofwadena.comregister id csd:4710068; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | No | 18 | |
| Rivière-Bleue riviere-bleue.caregister id csd:2413025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Irishtown-Summerside irishtownsummerside.caregister id csd:1005030; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Thessalon thessalon.caregister id csd:3557028; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Mayerthorpe mayerthorpe.cablockedregister id csd:4813002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Bury municipalitedebury.qc.caregister id csd:2441070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Osler osler-sk.caregister id csd:4711075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Frenchman Butte No. 501 no website on recordregister id csd:4717032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska saint-norbert-darthabaska.caregister id csd:2439043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 1 | |
| Macklin macklin.caregister id csd:4713051; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 23 | |
| Gold River goldriver.caunreachableregister id csd:5924025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Arsène municipalite.saint-arsene.qc.caregister id csd:2412065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 29 | |
| Spiritwood No. 496 no website on recordregister id csd:4716056; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière st-edouard.comregister id csd:2433080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saints-Anges saintsanges.comregister id csd:2426010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Powerview-Pine Falls powerview-pinefalls.comregister id csd:4601075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Sifton rmofsifton.comregister id csd:4606016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Waldheim waldheim.caregister id csd:4715028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Special Area No. 4 no website on recordregister id csd:4804020; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Hamiota no website on recordregister id csd:4615037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Trécesson municipalitedetrecesson.comregister id csd:2488075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 31 | |
| Legal legal.cablockedregister id csd:4811069; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| South Qu'Appelle No. 157 no website on recordregister id csd:4706034; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Hébertville-Station no website on recordregister id csd:2493025; 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-Armand municipalite.saint-armand.qc.cablockedregister id csd:2446017; 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 | — | |
| Langenburg langenburg.caregister id csd:4705048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Naujaat repulsebay.caregister id csd:6205027; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Marie-Salomé sainte-marie-salome.caregister id csd:2463005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Sherwood No. 159 rmofsherwood.caregister id csd:4706026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Torch River No. 488 no website on recordregister id csd:4714077; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Bassano bassano.caregister id csd:4802039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Alonsa no website on recordregister id csd:4617026; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Maidstone townofmaidstone.comregister id csd:4717018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Siméon (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) stsimeon.caregister id csd:2405055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Moose Jaw No. 161 moosejawrm161.caregister id csd:4707038; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Ignace town.ignace.on.caregister id csd:3560001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Emo twspemo.on.caregister id csd:3559019; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Creighton no website on recordregister id csd:4718051; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Senneterre (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) paroissesenneterre.qc.caregister id csd:2489045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 25 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chipman (New Brunswick) no website on recordregister id csd:1304025; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Swan Hills townofswanhills.comregister id csd:4817024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Smooth Rock Falls townofsmoothrockfalls.caregister id csd:3556048; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bristol bristolmunicipality.qc.caregister id csd:2484005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Armstrong (Ontario) armstrongtownship.comregister id csd:3554036; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Miltonvale Park no website on recordregister id csd:1102040; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Alban st-alban.qc.cablockedregister id csd:2434097; 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 | — | |
| Teulon teulon.caregister id csd:4614042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wilkie townofwilkie.comregister id csd:4713069; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges notredamedesneiges.qc.caregister id csd:2411045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Rogersville no website on recordregister id csd:1309017; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Malpeque Bay no website on recordregister id csd:1103007; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| St. Alban's stalbans.caregister id csd:1003019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Très-Saint-Sacrement tres-st-sacrement.caregister id csd:2469030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 29 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Valère msvalere.qc,caregister id csd:2439135; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Victoria (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4608042; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Barnabé saint-barnabe.caregister id csd:2451025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lakeshore (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4617075; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues guigues.caregister id csd:2485045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 29 | |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets st-pierre-les-becquets.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2438065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Lac-Bouchette lac-bouchette.comblockedregister id csd:2491005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Foam Lake foamlake.comregister id csd:4710038; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clyde River (Nunavut) no website on recordregister id csd:6204015; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Modeste municipalite.saint-modeste.qc.caregister id csd:2412020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Ayer's Cliff ayerscliff.caregister id csd:2445035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Irricana irricana.comregister id csd:4806022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski municipalite.saint-gabriel-de-rimouski.qc.caregister id csd:2409025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Burgeo no website on recordregister id csd:1003028; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Marguerite sainte-marguerite.caregister id csd:2426035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 20 | |
| McAdam mcadamnb.comregister id csd:1310006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oxford oxfordns.caregister id csd:1211012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Wenceslas municipalitestwenceslas.comblockedregister id csd:2450023; 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 | — | |
| Maple Creek No. 111 rmmaplecreek.caregister id csd:4704045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Stirling stirling.caregister id csd:4802009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Disraeli (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) paroissedisraeli.comregister id csd:2431020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Mont-Carmel mont-carmel.caregister id csd:2414005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Candle Lake no website on recordregister id csd:4715070; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Grand-Remous grandremous.caregister id csd:2483095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs saintaimedeslacs.caregister id csd:2415030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Moonbeam moonbeam.caregister id csd:3556056; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville clarenceville.qc.caregister id csd:2456010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Bertrand no website on recordregister id csd:1315036; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — |
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.