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 101–200 of 3,493 · page 2 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon brandon.caregister id csd:4607062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mascouche mascouche.caregister id csd:2464015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Châteauguay ville.chateauguay.qc.caregister id csd:2467050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Whitchurch-Stouffville townofws.comregister id csd:3519044; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Shawinigan shawinigan.caregister id csd:2436033; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Haldimand County haldimandcounty.on.caregister id csd:3528018; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rimouski rimouski.caregister id csd:2410043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dollard-Des Ormeaux ville.ddo.qc.caregister id csd:2466142; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cornwall (Ontario) cornwall.caregister id csd:3501012; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Victoriaville victoriaville.caregister id csd:2439062; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Georgina georgina.caregister id csd:3519070; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Woodstock (Ontario) cityofwoodstock.caregister id csd:3532042; 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 | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Langford langford.caregister id csd:5917044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Quinte West quintewest.cablockedregister id csd:3512015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Eustache ville.saint-eustache.qc.caregister id csd:2472005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Vernon vernon.caregister id csd:5937014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| West Vancouver westvancouver.cablockedregister id csd:5915055; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| New Tecumseth town.newtecumseth.on.caregister id csd:3543007; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Innisfil innisfil.caregister id csd:3543017; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion ville.vaudreuil-dorion.qc.caregister id csd:2471083; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bradford West Gwillimbury townofbwg.comregister id csd:3543014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Thomas stthomas.caregister id csd:3534021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield ville.valleyfield.qc.caregister id csd:2470052; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rouyn-Noranda ville.rouyn-noranda.qc.caregister id csd:2486042; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boucherville boucherville.caregister id csd:2458033; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mission mission.caregister id csd:5909056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Timmins timmins.caregister id csd:3556027; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Rocky View County rockyview.caregister id csd:4806014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lakeshore (Ontario) townoflakeshore.on.caregister id csd:3537064; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brant brant.caregister id csd:3529005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Charlottetown charlottetown.caregister id csd:1102075; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 29 | |
| Prince Albert citypa.caregister id csd:4715066; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Spruce Grove sprucegrove.orgregister id csd:4811049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Penticton penticton.caregister id csd:5907041; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| West Kelowna westkelownacity.caregister id csd:5935029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Campbell River campbellriver.caregister id csd:5924034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Sorel-Tracy ville.sorel-tracy.qc.caregister id csd:2453052; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Gwillimbury eastgwillimbury.caregister id csd:3519054; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Côte-Saint-Luc cotesaintluc.orgregister id csd:2466058; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Leduc leduc.cablockedregister id csd:4811016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Moose Jaw moosejaw.caregister id csd:4707039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Port Moody portmoody.caregister id csd:5915043; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pointe-Claire pointe-claire.caregister id csd:2466097; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | Gated | 32 | |
| Orillia orillia.caregister id csd:3543052; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stratford (Ontario) stratford.caregister id csd:3531011; 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 | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Georges saint-georges.caregister id csd:2429073; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Fort Erie forterie.on.caregister id csd:3526003; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 1 | |
| Val-d'Or ville.valdor.qc.caregister id csd:2489008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| LaSalle town.lasalle.on.caregister id csd:3537034; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 1 | |
| Parkland County parklandcounty.comregister id csd:4811034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cochrane (Alberta) cochrane.caregister id csd:4806019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| North Cowichan northcowichan.caregister id csd:5919008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Chambly ville.chambly.qc.caregister id csd:2457005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Centre Wellington centrewellington.caregister id csd:3523025; 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 | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Okotoks okotoks.caregister id csd:4806012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Alma (Quebec) ville.alma.qc.caregister id csd:2493042; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Orangeville orangeville.caregister id csd:3522014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Julie saintejulie.caregister id csd:2459010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Constant saint-constant.caregister id csd:2467035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Leamington leamington.caregister id csd:3537003; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Langley (British Columbia) (City) city.langley.bc.caregister id csd:5915002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| Grimsby town.grimsby.on.caregister id csd:3526065; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Courtenay courtenay.caregister id csd:5926010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Magog ville.magog.qc.caregister id csd:2445072; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Boisbriand ville.boisbriand.qc.caregister id csd:2473005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Whitehorse whitehorse.cablockedregister id csd:6001009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Dieppe dieppe.caregister id csd:1307045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| King king.caregister id csd:3519049; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Conception Bay South conceptionbaysouth.caregister id csd:1001485; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Fort Saskatchewan fortsask.caregister id csd:4811056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Woolwich woolwich.caregister id csd:3530035; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sainte-Thérèse sainte-therese.caregister id csd:2473010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clarence-Rockland clarence-rockland.comregister id csd:3502036; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Prairie laprairie.caregister id csd:2467015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville stbruno.caregister id csd:2458037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Thetford Mines villethetford.caregister id csd:2431084; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lincoln lincoln.caregister id csd:3526057; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Prince Edward County pecounty.on.caregister id csd:3513020; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lunenburg (Nova Scotia) (Municipal district) no website on recordregister id csd:1206001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wasaga Beach wasagabeach.comregister id csd:3543064; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Collingwood collingwood.caregister id csd:3543031; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sept-Îles septiles.caregister id csd:2497007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Beloeil beloeil.caregister id csd:2457040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Lin--Laurentides saint-lin-laurentides.comregister id csd:2463048; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Strathroy-Caradoc strathroy-caradoc.caregister id csd:3539015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Squamish squamish.cablockedregister id csd:5931006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Thorold thorold.comregister id csd:3526037; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grande Prairie County No. 1 countygp.ab.caregister id csd:4819006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Amherstburg amherstburg.caregister id csd:3537028; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| L'Assomption ville.lassomption.qc.caregister id csd:2460028; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tecumseh tecumseh.caregister id csd:3537048; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Foothills County foothillscountyab.caregister id csd:4806001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Oro-Medonte oro-medonte.caregister id csd:3543023; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Candiac candiac.caregister id csd:2467020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Essa essatownship.on.caregister id csd:3543021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Paradise townofparadise.caregister id csd:1001517; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| East Hants easthants.caregister id csd:1208008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Lambert (Quebec) (Ville) saint-lambert.caunreachableregister id csd:2458012; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Mount Pearl mountpearl.caregister id csd:1001542; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Lazare ville.saint-lazare.qc.caregister id csd:2471105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | 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.