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 2,301–2,400 of 3,493 · page 24 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Saint-Paul lac-saint-paul.caregister id csd:2479105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Grant No. 372 no website on recordregister id csd:4715014; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Harley harley.caregister id csd:3554026; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 19 | |
| Ibex Valley no website on recordregister id csd:6001055; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Onésime-d'Ixworth no website on recordregister id csd:2414080; Not in the current Répertoire des municipalités under this code (merged or renamed since 2021). No website is published for it in the Répertoire des municipalités and Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Adrien st-adrien.comregister id csd:2440010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Marshall townofmarshall.caregister id csd:4717026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Big Quill No. 308 no website on recordregister id csd:4710046; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Alexis-de-Matapédia matapedialesplateaux.comregister id csd:2406050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Alfred st-alfred.qc.caregister id csd:2427015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes stlucdevincennes.comregister id csd:2437225; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sainte-Monique (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2450057) sainte-monique.cablockedregister id csd:2450057; 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-Denis-De La Bouteillerie munstdenis.comregister id csd:2414055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Coleman colemantownship.caregister id csd:3554001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Stewart districtofstewart.comregister id csd:5949032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Cupar No. 218 no website on recordregister id csd:4706091; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska stbrunokamouraska.caregister id csd:2414010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 31 | |
| Saint-Malo saint-malo.caregister id csd:2444003; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Port Blandford no website on recordregister id csd:1007036; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Trois-Rives trois-rives.comunreachableregister id csd:2435055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk st-emile-de-suffolk.comregister id csd:2480125; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Whiska Creek No. 106 no website on recordregister id csd:4703059; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Birchy Bay no website on recordregister id csd:1008038; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth no website on recordregister id csd:2429025; 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 | — | |
| Hazel Dell No. 335 no website on recordregister id csd:4709060; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Usborne No. 310 no website on recordregister id csd:4711046; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wolverine No. 340 no website on recordregister id csd:4711096; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Midale townofmidale.comregister id csd:4702039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Leroy leroy.caregister id csd:4710058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 32 | |
| Calixa-Lavallée calixa-lavallee.caregister id csd:2459030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Blaine Lake blainelake.caregister id csd:4716016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Lark Harbour no website on recordregister id csd:1005024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Trout River townoftroutriver.comregister id csd:1009010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 14 | |
| Centreville villageofcentreville.caregister id csd:1311019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 12 | |
| Egan-Sud egan-sud.caregister id csd:2483075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 23 | |
| Stanley No. 215 no website on recordregister id csd:4705067; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu saintmarcelderichelieu.caregister id csd:2454125; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| Raymore no website on recordregister id csd:4710027; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fort Good Hope no website on recordregister id csd:6102009; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Gillams no website on recordregister id csd:1005015; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lake Lenore No. 399 no website on recordregister id csd:4715048; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Apolline-de-Patton sainteapollinedepatton.caregister id csd:2418025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rouleau townofrouleau.comblockedregister id csd:4706017; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Manitou Lake No. 442 rmmanitou.caregister id csd:4713079; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 9 | |
| Pike River pikeriver.comregister id csd:2446025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Turtleford townofturtleford.caregister id csd:4717041; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lourdes no website on recordregister id csd:1004037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Evanturel evanturel.comregister id csd:3554049; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Litchfield litchfield-qc.caregister id csd:2484040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 18 | |
| Cape Broyle no website on recordregister id csd:1001126; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Eatonia townofeatonia.comregister id csd:4708068; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lac-des-Aigles no website on recordregister id csd:2413060; 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 | — | |
| Rainbow Lake rainbowlake.caregister id csd:4817097; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Acadia No. 34 mdacadia.ab.caregister id csd:4804001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 30 | |
| Saint-Octave-de-Métis municipalites-du-quebec.caregister id csd:2409055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Grandes-Piles grandespiles.qc.caregister id csd:2435040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morley townshipofmorley.caregister id csd:3559031; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 30 | |
| Cormack no website on recordregister id csd:1005014; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Carbon villageofcarbon.comregister id csd:4805042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leclercville munleclercville.qc.caregister id csd:2433123; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Connaught No. 457 no website on recordregister id csd:4714056; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Sixte saintsixte.caregister id csd:2480070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Englee no website on recordregister id csd:1009004; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Péribonka peribonka.caregister id csd:2492010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Moose Mountain No. 63 rmofmoosemountain.comregister id csd:4701053; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 16 | |
| Medstead No. 497 no website on recordregister id csd:4716062; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Villeroy municipalitevilleroy.caregister id csd:2432085; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Grand-Saint-Esprit grandsaintesprit.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2450065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Gallichan gallichan.ao.caregister id csd:2487020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Eugène-d'Argentenay municipalites-du-quebec.orgblockedregister id csd:2492065; 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; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| New Denver newdenver.cablockedregister id csd:5903032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Les Hauteurs municipalites-du-quebec.comregister id csd:2409015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 28 | |
| Barrier Valley No. 397 no website on recordregister id csd:4714034; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Adelme st-adelme.caunreachableregister id csd:2408030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Clermont (Quebec) (Canton (municipalité de)) clermont.ao.caregister id csd:2487110; 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 | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Ryley ryley.caregister id csd:4810019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| Yellow Grass yellowgrass.caregister id csd:4702072; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 10 | |
| Saint-Prosper-de-Champlain st-prosper.caregister id csd:2437250; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Clément st-clement.caregister id csd:2411005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Motte municipalitedelamotte.caregister id csd:2488045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Springside townofspringside.caregister id csd:4709016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vanscoy vanscoyvillage.comregister id csd:4712058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Irma irma.caregister id csd:4807056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Lockeport lockeport.ns.caregister id csd:1201009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Lamarche ville.lamarche.qc.caregister id csd:2493060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Edam villageofedam.caregister id csd:4717011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Rudy No. 284 rmrudy.caregister id csd:4711026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Cyprien (Quebec) (Paroisse (municipalité de)) st-cyprien.qc.caregister id csd:2428040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Saltcoats townofsaltcoats.caregister id csd:4705078; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Perdue No. 346 no website on recordregister id csd:4712050; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Paradise Hill paradisehill.caregister id csd:4717034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Elrose elrose.caregister id csd:4708094; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Caroline villageofcaroline.comregister id csd:4809010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Port Edward no website on recordregister id csd:5947007; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Whale Cove no website on recordregister id csd:6205016; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Mt. Lorne no website on recordregister id csd:6001044; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fort Liard fortliard.comblockedregister id csd:6104009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 429 (rate limited) at every rate tried, after 4 attempts | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Françoise (Quebec) (Municipalité) ste-francoise.comregister id csd:2438035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Fauquier-Strickland fauquierstrickland.comregister id csd:3556052; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Wood River No. 74 no website on recordregister id csd:4703042; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.