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 1,701–1,800 of 3,493 · page 18 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan stegenevieve.cablockedregister id csd:2437215; 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 | — | |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans st-jean.iledorleans.comregister id csd:2420015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier no website on recordregister id csd:2488060; 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 | — | |
| Delisle townofdelisle.comregister id csd:4712056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 31 | |
| Low lowquebec.caregister id csd:2483010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 31 | |
| Saint-Sylvestre st-sylvestre.orgregister id csd:2433007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Girardville ville.girardville.qc.caregister id csd:2492055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Marthe sainte-marthe.caregister id csd:2471110; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Buffalo Narrows buffalonarrows.netregister id csd:4718070; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eckville eckville.comblockedregister id csd:4808024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Pinehouse no website on recordregister id csd:4718065; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Montrose no website on recordregister id csd:5905009; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Machin visitmachin.comregister id csd:3560021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clanwilliam-Erickson no website on recordregister id csd:4615092; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Duck Lake No. 463 no website on recordregister id csd:4715061; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sanikiluaq sanikiluaq.caregister id csd:6204001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brébeuf brebeuf.caregister id csd:2478075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 31 | |
| Assiginack assiginack.caregister id csd:3551011; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Redvers redvers.caregister id csd:4701049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 31 | |
| Gillam no website on recordregister id csd:4623022; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Improvement District No. 9 Banff no website on recordregister id csd:4815032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Kindersley No. 290 no website on recordregister id csd:4713006; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Plaster Rock no website on recordregister id csd:1312009; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Stanislas (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2437245) saint-stanislas.caunreachableregister id csd:2437245; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Falher town.falher.ab.caregister id csd:4819046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trochu town.trochu.ab.caregister id csd:4805049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Nigadoo no website on recordregister id csd:1315037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Les Méchins lesmechins.comregister id csd:2408005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 1 | |
| Rivière-Ouelle riviereouelle.caregister id csd:2414065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Desbiens ville.desbiens.qc.caregister id csd:2493005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 19 | |
| Argyle (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4604057; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Big River No. 555 bigriver.caregister id csd:4716075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Arctic Bay no website on recordregister id csd:6204018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Miscouche no website on recordregister id csd:1103024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici municipalitesam.caregister id csd:2409035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Cobalt cobalt.cablockedregister id csd:3554008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Dunnottar no website on recordregister id csd:4613049; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Val-Alain val-alain.comregister id csd:2433070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 30 | |
| Gravelbourg gravelbourg.caregister id csd:4703071; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; Wikidata gives 2 official websites for this code; the plain host was taken over a language subdomain, then the shorter host | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Viking viking.cablockedregister id csd:4810022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Lajord No. 128 no website on recordregister id csd:4706011; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Eulalie municipalite.sainte-eulalie.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2450005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Papineau-Cameron papineaucameron.caregister id csd:3548013; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 25 | |
| Saint-Louis de Kent no website on recordregister id csd:1308022; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé saintetheresedegaspe.comregister id csd:2402010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| The Archipelago thearchipelago.on.caregister id csd:3549005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur tressaintredempteur.caregister id csd:2471125; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Wakaw no website on recordregister id csd:4715042; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Barnwell barnwell.cablockedregister id csd:4802023; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Prince princetwp.caregister id csd:3557066; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 30 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kearney townofkearney.comregister id csd:3549018; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Rossburn rossburn.caregister id csd:4616005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Eston eston.caregister id csd:4708076; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Kerrobert kerrobertsk.comregister id csd:4713042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| Machar machartownship.netregister id csd:3549054; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cache Creek cachecreek.caregister id csd:5933024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Léon-le-Grand (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) (csd:2407030) municipalite.saint-leon-le-grand.qc.caregister id csd:2407030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Hornepayne townshipofhornepayne.caregister id csd:3557096; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Harrington harrington.caregister id csd:2476065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Thorsby thorsby.caregister id csd:4811021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Preeceville No. 334 no website on recordregister id csd:4709062; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Spiritwood townofspiritwood.caregister id csd:4716058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Onoway onoway.comregister id csd:4813014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fraser Lake fraserlake.caregister id csd:5951009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arnold's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1001270; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Queen Charlotte daajinggiids.caregister id csd:5947026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Nackawic no website on recordregister id csd:1310054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Barnabé-Sud saintbarnabesud.caregister id csd:2454105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-René-de-Matane saintrene.caregister id csd:2408035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Baie-du-Febvre baie-du-febvre.netregister id csd:2450100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Justin saint-justin.caregister id csd:2451045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Humboldt No. 370 no website on recordregister id csd:4715007; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Batiscan batiscan.caregister id csd:2437210; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Georges-de-Windsor st-georges-de-windsor.orgregister id csd:2440032; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Nipawin No. 487 rmnipawin.caregister id csd:4714072; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Burk's Falls burksfalls.netregister id csd:3549022; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Kangiqsualujjuaq nvkangiqsualujjuaq.caregister id csd:2499090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Whitbourne no website on recordregister id csd:1001298; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies saintrochdesaulnaies.caregister id csd:2417065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 32 | |
| Alberton (Ontario) alberton.caregister id csd:3559011; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Petite-Rivière-Saint-François petiteriviere.comregister id csd:2416005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Carlow/Mayo carlowmayo.caregister id csd:3512065; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tide Head no website on recordregister id csd:1314015; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Senneville senneville.caregister id csd:2466127; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Campobello Island campobelloislandnb.caregister id csd:1302004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove pettyharbour.caregister id csd:1001551; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Sainte-Justine-de-Newton sainte-justine-de-newton.caregister id csd:2471115; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Laverlochère-Angliers laverlochere-angliers.orgregister id csd:2485052; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 7 | |
| Musgrave Harbour musgraveharbour.comregister id csd:1008006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 16 | |
| Saint-René st-rene.caregister id csd:2429050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Carrot River carrotriver.caregister id csd:4714069; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Fabien-de-Panet saintfabiendepanet.comregister id csd:2418015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Duhamel-Ouest no website on recordregister id csd:2485030; No website is published for it in the Répertoire des municipalités and Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Whitewood townofwhitewood.caregister id csd:4705034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Moose Range No. 486 no website on recordregister id csd:4714067; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Germaine-Boulé saintegermaineboule.comregister id csd:2487030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dupuy dupuy.ao.caregister id csd:2487085; 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 | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Sundridge sundridge.caregister id csd:3549048; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Rocky Harbour rockyharbour.caregister id csd:1009013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tuktoyaktuk tuktoyaktuk.caregister id csd:6101036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.