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 401–500 of 3,493 · page 5 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hippolyte saint-hippolyte.caregister id csd:2475045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| North Dumfries northdumfries.caregister id csd:3530004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Martensville martensville.caregister id csd:4711070; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Selkirk myselkirk.caregister id csd:4613047; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Blackfalds blackfalds.comregister id csd:4808029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Yellowhead County yhcounty.caregister id csd:4814003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grey Highlands greyhighlands.caregister id csd:3542015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Queens regionofqueens.comunreachableregister id csd:1204010; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Morinville morinville.caregister id csd:4811068; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ramara ramara.caregister id csd:3543019; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lacombe County lacombecounty.comregister id csd:4808022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 31 | |
| Hawkesbury hawkesbury.caregister id csd:3502008; 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 | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Bois-des-Filion villebdf.caregister id csd:2473030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 30 | |
| Farnham ville.farnham.qc.caregister id csd:2446112; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 31 | |
| North Glengarry northglengarry.caregister id csd:3501050; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pont-Rouge ville.pontrouge.qc.caregister id csd:2434017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Lethbridge County lethcounty.caregister id csd:4802011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Félicien ville.stfelicien.qc.caregister id csd:2491042; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Penetanguishene penetanguishene.caregister id csd:3543072; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) (Municipal district) district.yarmouth.ns.caregister id csd:1202004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| South Huron southhuron.caregister id csd:3540005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cavan Monaghan cavanmonaghan.netregister id csd:3515013; 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 | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ponoka County ponokacounty.comregister id csd:4808038; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Alfred and Plantagenet alfred-plantagenet.comregister id csd:3502023; 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 | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morden mordenmb.comregister id csd:4603053; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 37 | Gated | 1 | |
| Whitecourt whitecourt.cablockedregister id csd:4813030; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Quesnel quesnel.cablockedregister id csd:5941013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Roberval roberval.caregister id csd:2491025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Hinton hinton.caregister id csd:4814019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leeds and the Thousand Islands townshipleeds.on.caregister id csd:3507021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Brockton brockton.caregister id csd:3541032; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| East St. Paul eaststpaul.comregister id csd:4613032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury villestoneham.comregister id csd:2422035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 6 | |
| Temiskaming Shores temiskamingshores.caregister id csd:3554020; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arnprior arnprior.caregister id csd:3547002; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Zotique st-zotique.comregister id csd:2471025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Elizabethtown-Kitley elizabethtown-kitley.on.caregister id csd:3507014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Huron East huroneast.comregister id csd:3540040; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lorraine lorraine.caregister id csd:2473025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Contrecoeur ville.contrecoeur.qc.caregister id csd:2459035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| New Glasgow newglasgow.caregister id csd:1212014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 31 | |
| Notre-Dame-des-Prairies notredamedesprairies.comregister id csd:2461030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Laurentian Valley laurentianvalleytwsp.on.caregister id csd:3547075; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mono townofmono.comregister id csd:3522012; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Amherst (Nova Scotia) amherst.caregister id csd:1211011; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Blue Mountains thebluemountains.caregister id csd:3542045; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Malahide malahide.cablockedregister id csd:3534010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Qualicum Beach qualicumbeach.comregister id csd:5921023; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Smiths Falls smithsfalls.caregister id csd:3509004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Olds olds.caregister id csd:4806034; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| South Bruce Peninsula southbrucepeninsula.comregister id csd:3541055; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Minto (Ontario) town.minto.on.caregister id csd:3523043; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Oromocto oromocto.caregister id csd:1303012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| West Perth westperth.comregister id csd:3531025; 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 | |
| Beckwith twp.beckwith.on.caregister id csd:3509024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Shelburne (Ontario) townofshelburne.on.caregister id csd:3522021; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ladysmith ladysmith.caregister id csd:5919021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Stanley (Manitoba) no website on recordregister id csd:4603047; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Rémi ville.saint-remi.qc.caregister id csd:2468055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Corman Park No. 344 rmcormanpark.caregister id csd:4711065; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| L'Épiphanie lepiphanie.caregister id csd:2460037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Coaticook coaticook.caregister id csd:2444037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Taber (Alberta) (Town) taber.cablockedregister id csd:4802022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Bridgewater bridgewater.caregister id csd:1206004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Coaldale coaldale.caregister id csd:4802019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wheatland County wheatlandcounty.caregister id csd:4805012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 31 | |
| Southgate southgate.caregister id csd:3542005; 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 | |
| Champlain (Ontario) champlain.caregister id csd:3502010; 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 | 69 | No | 32 | |
| La Pêche villelapeche.qc.caregister id csd:2482035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Zorra zorra.on.caregister id csd:3532027; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nicolet nicolet.caunreachableregister id csd:2450072; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Greenview No. 16 mdgreenview.ab.caregister id csd:4818015; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Camrose County county.camrose.ab.caregister id csd:4810001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Otterburn Park opark.caregister id csd:2457030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval sbdl.netregister id csd:2422045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier villescjc.comregister id csd:2422005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rockwood rockwood.caregister id csd:4614036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's pcsp.caregister id csd:1001504; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Edson edson.caregister id csd:4814024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dauphin (Manitoba) (City) dauphin.caregister id csd:4617050; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Castlegar castlegar.caunreachableregister id csd:5903045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Delson ville.delson.qc.caregister id csd:2467025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Plympton-Wyoming plympton-wyoming.comregister id csd:3538035; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Banff banff.caregister id csd:4815035; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Revelstoke revelstoke.caregister id csd:5939019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kitimat kitimat.caregister id csd:5949005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| La Malbaie ville.lamalbaie.qc.caregister id csd:2415013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Boischatel boischatel.caregister id csd:2421045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Renfrew renfrewontario.comregister id csd:3547048; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Drummond/North Elmsley dnetownship.caregister id csd:3509010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lac-Beauport lac-beauport.quebecregister id csd:2422040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Macdonald no website on recordregister id csd:4610035; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Kimberley kimberley.caregister id csd:5901028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Kapuskasing kapuskasing.caregister id csd:3556066; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Happy Valley-Goose Bay happyvalley-goosebay.comblockedregister id csd:1010025; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Chelsea chelsea.caregister id csd:2482025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Vermilion River County vermilion-river.comblockedregister id csd:4810036; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Innisfail innisfail.caregister id csd:4808008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Apollinaire st-apollinaire.comregister id csd:2433090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hanover (Ontario) hanover.caregister id csd:3542029; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (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.