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 2,801–2,900 of 3,493 · page 29 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authier authier.ao.caregister id csd:2487050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine stemadeleine.caregister id csd:2404005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marsoui marsoui-village.caregister id csd:2404025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Golden West No. 95 no website on recordregister id csd:4701069; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Mankota No. 45 no website on recordregister id csd:4703018; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lake Lenore lakelenore.caregister id csd:4715006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Authier-Nord authier-nord.ao.caregister id csd:2487100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Elnora villageofelnora.comregister id csd:4808002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rémigny municipaliteremigny.qc.caregister id csd:2485105; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pilley's Island no website on recordregister id csd:1008053; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Pierre villagestpierre.orgregister id csd:2461020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours ndbonsecours.comregister id csd:2480015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Belleterre no website on recordregister id csd:2485065; No website is published for it in the Répertoire des municipalités and Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Franquelin municipalitefranquelin.caregister id csd:2496015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Willow Bunch No. 42 willowbunch.caregister id csd:4703026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Happyland No. 231 no website on recordregister id csd:4708056; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Arborfield arborfieldsk.caregister id csd:4714062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 14 | |
| Lipton villageoflipton.comregister id csd:4706098; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 26 | |
| Saint-Gilbert saint-gilbert.caregister id csd:2434060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Murray Harbour murrayharbour.caregister id csd:1101002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 23 | |
| Alma (New Brunswick) no website on recordregister id csd:1306006; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| East Hereford easthereford.caregister id csd:2444010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Fillmore no website on recordregister id csd:4702078; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Viscount viscount.caregister id csd:4711092; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Seal Cove (White Bay) no website on recordregister id csd:1008091; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Rivière-au-Tonnerre riviere-au-tonnerre.caunreachableregister id csd:2498055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Livingston No. 331 no website on recordregister id csd:4709075; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Marsden no website on recordregister id csd:4713091; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Borden bordensask.caregister id csd:4716011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Loon Lake loonlakesask.comregister id csd:4717058; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Renews-Cappahayden no website on recordregister id csd:1001131; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Piapot No. 110 no website on recordregister id csd:4704050; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| McCraney No. 282 no website on recordregister id csd:4711034; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Milden No. 286 no website on recordregister id csd:4712011; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Coleville colevillesk.caregister id csd:4713026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Traytown no website on recordregister id csd:1007037; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wapella townofwapella.comregister id csd:4705009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sandy Beach summervillageofsandybeach.comregister id csd:4813016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Girouxville girouxville.caregister id csd:4819048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jackson's Arm no website on recordregister id csd:1005005; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens saints-martyrs-canadiens.caregister id csd:2439005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 30 | |
| Cambria No. 6 no website on recordregister id csd:4702001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sainte-Lucie-de-Beauregard sainteluciedebeauregard.comregister id csd:2418020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lomond No. 37 no website on recordregister id csd:4702033; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Millville no website on recordregister id csd:1310025; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wellington No. 97 no website on recordregister id csd:4702073; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Mortlach mortlach.caregister id csd:4707034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | No | 32 | |
| Flower's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1009024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Godbout municipalites-du-quebec.comregister id csd:2496010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 28 | |
| Macoun no website on recordregister id csd:4702041; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Neudorf village.neudorf.sk.caregister id csd:4705064; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Craik No. 222 no website on recordregister id csd:4707091; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Invermay no website on recordregister id csd:4709058; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Glenwood (Alberta) glenwood.caregister id csd:4803006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Lucky Lake no website on recordregister id csd:4707059; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Morell no website on recordregister id csd:1101048; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lake Alma No. 8 no website on recordregister id csd:4702011; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Invermay No. 305 no website on recordregister id csd:4709054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Carmangay villageofcarmangay.caregister id csd:4805002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Matachewan matachewan.comregister id csd:3554056; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Enfield No. 194 no website on recordregister id csd:4707053; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Vilna vilna.cablockedregister id csd:4812024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Head, Clara and Maria townshipsofheadclaramaria.caregister id csd:3547098; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 2 | |
| Dinsmore dinsmore.caregister id csd:4712016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 5 | |
| Fermeuse no website on recordregister id csd:1001136; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Lemberg lemberg-sk-ca.weebly.comregister id csd:4705066; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 19 | |
| Craven villageofcraven.comregister id csd:4706078; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Progress No. 351 no website on recordregister id csd:4713041; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Laird (Saskatchewan) no website on recordregister id csd:4715029; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| St. Vincent's-St. Stephen's-Peter's River no website on recordregister id csd:1001169; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Hart Butte No. 11 no website on recordregister id csd:4703001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Morris No. 312 young.caregister id csd:4711052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 46 | No | 7 | |
| Greenmount-Montrose no website on recordregister id csd:1103055; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Roch-Ouest saint-roch-ouest.caregister id csd:2463040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Estérel villedesterel.comunreachableregister id csd:2477011; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Natashquan natashquan.orgregister id csd:2498025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 13 | |
| Wilcox wilcox.caregister id csd:4706014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colonsay No. 342 no website on recordregister id csd:4711076; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fox Valley no website on recordregister id csd:4708026; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Englefeld englefeld.cablockedregister id csd:4715002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Maryfield No. 91 no website on recordregister id csd:4701094; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Arm River No. 252 rmarmriver.comblockedregister id csd:4711011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Greenspond no website on recordregister id csd:1007054; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Myrnam myrnam.caregister id csd:4810051; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sunset Point sunsetpoint.caregister id csd:4813011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 31 | |
| Hazelton village.hazelton.bc.caregister id csd:5949022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rose Valley no website on recordregister id csd:4714024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Fortunat munsaintfortunat.caregister id csd:2431030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Tecumseh No. 65 no website on recordregister id csd:4701063; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Pelly pelly.caregister id csd:4709044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 17 | |
| Point May no website on recordregister id csd:1002014; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Cléophas-de-Brandon st-cleophas.qc.caregister id csd:2452075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chazel chazel.ao.caregister id csd:2487095; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Martin No. 122 rmofmartin.comregister id csd:4705007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 30 | |
| Laurier No. 38 no website on recordregister id csd:4702029; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Redburn No. 130 no website on recordregister id csd:4706016; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Young young.caregister id csd:4711056; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 7 | |
| Bishop's Cove no website on recordregister id csd:1001394; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fox Cove-Mortier no website on recordregister id csd:1002025; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Alexandra no website on recordregister id csd:1102013; 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.