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 2,001–2,100 of 3,493 · page 21 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixville dixville.caregister id csd:2444023; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Bolton-Ouest bolton-ouest.caregister id csd:2446065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Grande-Anse no website on recordregister id csd:1315038; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Drummond no website on recordregister id csd:1312023; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls siouxnarrows-nestorfalls.caregister id csd:3560008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fertile Belt No. 183 no website on recordregister id csd:4705051; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Ituna ituna.caregister id csd:4710004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Clark's Harbour clarksharbour.comregister id csd:1201004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Three Lakes No. 400 no website on recordregister id csd:4715044; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Parkdale No. 498 rmofparkdale498.comregister id csd:4717047; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 21 | |
| Peterview peterview.caregister id csd:1006021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 23 | |
| St. Peter No. 369 no website on recordregister id csd:4715001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Robert's Arm no website on recordregister id csd:1008060; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wollaston wollaston.caregister id csd:3512054; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fredericton Junction frederictonjunction.cablockedregister id csd:1303006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 429 | — | No | — | |
| Paquetville no website on recordregister id csd:1315020; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Duparquet duparquet.ao.caregister id csd:2487005; 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 | |
| Aberdeen aberdeen.caregister id csd:4715019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Cambridge-Narrows no website on recordregister id csd:1304013; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Magloire saint-magloire.comregister id csd:2428075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 31 | |
| Saint-Alphonse st-alphonsegaspesie.comregister id csd:2405065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Romain st-romain.caregister id csd:2430100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds saintjacquesdeleeds.caregister id csd:2431140; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Spring Lake springlakealberta.comregister id csd:4811046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 51 | No | 1 | |
| Norris Arm norrisarm.netregister id csd:1006003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Audet munaudet.qc.caregister id csd:2430055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Béarn bearn.caregister id csd:2485020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Zéphirin-de-Courval saint-zephirin.cablockedregister id csd:2450090; 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 | — | |
| Watson townofwatson.caregister id csd:4710062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 1 | |
| Improvement District No. 24 Wood Buffalo no website on recordregister id csd:4816051; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Campbell's Bay campbellsbay.caunreachableregister id csd:2484030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Sophie-de-Lévrard munstesophie.orgregister id csd:2438040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Mayo (Quebec) mayo.caunreachableregister id csd:2480065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Linden linden.caregister id csd:4805046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Thomas-Didyme stthomasdidyme.qc.cablockedregister id csd:2492045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Théophile sainttheophile.qc.caregister id csd:2429005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | No | 1 | |
| Greenwood greenwoodcity.comregister id csd:5905042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Francis No. 127 rmoffrancis.caregister id csd:4706004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 31 | |
| Mount Moriah no website on recordregister id csd:1005033; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Eldon No. 471 no website on recordregister id csd:4717017; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Cupids no website on recordregister id csd:1001437; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Brigus brigus.netregister id csd:1001446; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 1 | |
| Denare Beach denarebeach.netregister id csd:4718049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | No | 15 | |
| Newport municipalitenewport.caregister id csd:2441037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Blue Sea bluesea.caregister id csd:2483045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Bouchette bouchette.caregister id csd:2483050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| McLennan mclennan.caregister id csd:4819042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| L'Anse au Loup no website on recordregister id csd:1010002; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Sébastien (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2456050) paroisse-saint-sebastien.caregister id csd:2456050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Bonne-Espérance bonneesperance.caregister id csd:2498010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux stmathieuderioux.qc.caregister id csd:2411050; 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 | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge notredamedestanbridge.qc.caregister id csd:2446100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Herménégilde st-hermenegilde.qc.caregister id csd:2444015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 1 | |
| O'Connor oconnortownship.caregister id csd:3558016; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Victoria Beach no website on recordregister id csd:4601078; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Mundare mundare.cablockedregister id csd:4810061; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Didace saint-didace.comregister id csd:2452090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Haines Junction hainesjunction.caregister id csd:6001018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Eastern Kings no website on recordregister id csd:1101040; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| North Battleford No. 437 no website on recordregister id csd:4716028; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Belcarra belcarra.caregister id csd:5915036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Charlton and Dack charltonanddack.comregister id csd:3554044; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Lac Baker no website on recordregister id csd:1313037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Beauval no website on recordregister id csd:4718033; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| La Visitation-de-l'Île-Dupas ile-dupas.caregister id csd:2452050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 1 | |
| Willow Creek No. 458 no website on recordregister id csd:4714053; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Badger no website on recordregister id csd:1006026; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wentworth wentworth.caregister id csd:2476035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Milestone milestonesk.caregister id csd:4702067; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Philémon saintphilemon.comregister id csd:2419005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Embree no website on recordregister id csd:1008043; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-François-d'Assise matapedialesplateaux.comregister id csd:2406055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Port Saunders townofportsaunders.caregister id csd:1009019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Irénée saintirenee.caregister id csd:2415005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge saint-ignace-de-stanbridge.comregister id csd:2446095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 31 | |
| Lac-Sainte-Marie lac-sainte-marie.comregister id csd:2483020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 17 | |
| Warburg warburg.cablockedregister id csd:4811024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| North Hatley northhatley.orgregister id csd:2445050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix notredamedelapaix.qc.caregister id csd:2480020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Dundurn townofdundurn.caregister id csd:4711063; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| South River (Newfoundland and Labrador) townofsouthriver.caregister id csd:1001434; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 14 | |
| Sainte-Louise saintelouise.qc.caregister id csd:2417060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Sébastien (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2430085) st-sebastien.comregister id csd:2430085; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Isidore-de-Clifton st-isidore-clifton.qc.caregister id csd:2441012; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Lampman no website on recordregister id csd:4701032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Norman Wells normanwells.comregister id csd:6102007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Édouard-de-Fabre st-edouard-de-fabre.caregister id csd:2485015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kinistino townofkinistino.caregister id csd:4715074; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Sandy Bay no website on recordregister id csd:4718058; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Spanish townofspanish.comregister id csd:3557039; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Milltown-Head of Bay d'Espoir no website on recordregister id csd:1003018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Coulee No. 136 no website on recordregister id csd:4707018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Bienfait no website on recordregister id csd:4701021; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn saintaugustindewoburn.caregister id csd:2430005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 1 | |
| Bowman bowman.caregister id csd:2480145; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Big River bigriver.caregister id csd:4716072; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Cox's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1005023; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Poularies poularies.ao.caregister id csd:2487035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Gabriel-Lalemant saintgabriellalemant.qc.caregister id csd:2414075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Fortierville fortierville.comregister id csd:2438047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 2 |
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.