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 2,201–2,300 of 3,493 · page 23 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hope (Quebec) municipalitedehope.caregister id csd:2405025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Churchbridge No. 211 no website on recordregister id csd:4705093; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lawn no website on recordregister id csd:1002011; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Baildon No. 131 no website on recordregister id csd:4707001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Pointe-Fortune pointefortune.caregister id csd:2471140; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 13 | |
| Bruce Mines brucemines.caregister id csd:3557021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mont-Saint-Michel montsaintmichel.caregister id csd:2479110; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| North River no website on recordregister id csd:1001426; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Dover no website on recordregister id csd:1007057; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Baldwin baldwin.caregister id csd:3552028; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 27 | |
| McGarry mcgarry.caregister id csd:3554058; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lynn Lake lynnlake.caregister id csd:4623047; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 29 | |
| Duck Lake ducklake.caregister id csd:4715062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Packington packington.orgregister id csd:2413015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Arundel arundel.caregister id csd:2478060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 5 | |
| Ponteix ponteix.caregister id csd:4703058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 24 | |
| Berwyn berwyn.govoffice.comregister id csd:4819072; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Tourville muntourville.qc.caregister id csd:2417035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | No | 1 | |
| Dubreuilville dubreuilville.caregister id csd:3557079; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| McIvers no website on recordregister id csd:1005022; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Escuminac escuminac.orgregister id csd:2406025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Point Leamington no website on recordregister id csd:1008049; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Simon-les-Mines sslm.caregister id csd:2429125; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional tarbutttownship.comregister id csd:3557014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Déline deline.caunreachableregister id csd:6102003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce ste-clotilde.comregister id csd:2431060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Duhamel municipalite.duhamel.qc.caregister id csd:2480135; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Cymri No. 36 rm36.caregister id csd:4702037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Clinton village.clinton.bc.caregister id csd:5933028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Webb No. 138 no website on recordregister id csd:4708006; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Breton breton.caregister id csd:4811026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Matapédia matapedialesplateaux.comregister id csd:2406045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet saintdamasedelislet.comregister id csd:2417040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lac Pelletier No. 107 no website on recordregister id csd:4704061; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Invergordon No. 430 no website on recordregister id csd:4715054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Musgravetown no website on recordregister id csd:1007032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Kangirsuk nvkangirsuk.caregister id csd:2499110; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Langenburg No. 181 no website on recordregister id csd:4705047; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| North West River townofnwr.caunreachableregister id csd:1010022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Pierre-Baptiste saintpierrebaptiste.qc.caregister id csd:2432050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Bethune villageofbethune.comregister id csd:4706061; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Isle aux Morts no website on recordregister id csd:1003032; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Luseland townofluseland.comregister id csd:4713044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Calvin calvintownship.caregister id csd:3548022; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 31 | |
| White River whiteriver.caregister id csd:3557091; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Anne-du-Lac steannedulac.caregister id csd:2479115; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Bostonnais labostonnais.caunreachableregister id csd:2490017; 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 | — | No | — | |
| Wawota wawota.comregister id csd:4701078; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eye Hill No. 382 no website on recordregister id csd:4713049; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Camille saint-camille.caregister id csd:2440025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Reidville reidville-nl.caregister id csd:1005009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Rycroft rycroft.caregister id csd:4819056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| Lac-des-Plages lacdesplages.comregister id csd:2480130; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Keys No. 303 no website on recordregister id csd:4709046; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Hardisty hardisty.caregister id csd:4807048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Jules st-jules.qc.caregister id csd:2427055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Massueville massueville.netregister id csd:2453010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Grayson No. 184 no website on recordregister id csd:4705057; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Cut Knife townofcutknife.cablockedregister id csd:4713098; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Lewin's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1002002; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| St. Jacques-Coomb's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1003003; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Barnston-Ouest barnston-ouest.caregister id csd:2444045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sainte-Edwidge-de-Clifton ste-edwidge.caregister id csd:2444055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 2 | |
| Denholm (Quebec) denholm.caregister id csd:2483005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Rocanville No. 151 no website on recordregister id csd:4705037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Stavely stavely.caregister id csd:4803024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 28 | |
| Saint-Juste-du-Lac saintjustedulac.comregister id csd:2413040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Marwayne marwayne.cablockedregister id csd:4810044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Whatì no website on recordregister id csd:6103034; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Garnish no website on recordregister id csd:1002021; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Moïse st-moise.comregister id csd:2407095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Mattice-Val Côté matticevalcote.caregister id csd:3556077; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Rosedale No. 283 no website on recordregister id csd:4711031; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lac-Sergent villelacsergent.comregister id csd:2434120; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Umiujaq nvumiujaq.caregister id csd:2499080; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moosomin No. 121 rm121.comregister id csd:4705001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Broadview no website on recordregister id csd:4705031; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Burnt Islands burntislandsnl.caregister id csd:1003033; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hanley saskabusher.caregister id csd:4711032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 50 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cumberland House chcn.caunreachableregister id csd:4718005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Katepwa katepwabeach.comregister id csd:4706050; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Mountain (North) rmofmountain.caregister id csd:4620055; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans msfio.caregister id csd:2420005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus sacrecoeurdejesus.qc.caregister id csd:2431130; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Aklavik aklavik.caregister id csd:6101025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lumsden (Newfoundland and Labrador) no website on recordregister id csd:1008004; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Maisonnette no website on recordregister id csd:1315040; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Stornoway munstornoway.qc.caregister id csd:2430105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Berry municipalite-berry.orgregister id csd:2488070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Foam Lake No. 276 no website on recordregister id csd:4710036; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| The North Shore townshipofthenorthshore.caregister id csd:3557040; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Mount Hope No. 279 no website on recordregister id csd:4710024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Annapolis Royal annapolisroyal.comregister id csd:1205008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harris (Ontario) harristownship.weebly.comregister id csd:3554014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 5 | |
| Hudson (Ontario) hudson.caunreachableregister id csd:3554021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Robert-Bellarmin st-robertbellarmin.qc.caregister id csd:2430070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Thorne thornequebec.caregister id csd:2484045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | No | 1 | |
| Hillsdale No. 440 no website on recordregister id csd:4713092; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Eastport eastport.caregister id csd:1007042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Lac-Saguay lacsaguay.qc.caregister id csd:2479060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high 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.