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 501–600 of 3,493 · page 6 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puslinch puslinch.cablockedregister id csd:3523001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Trail trail.caregister id csd:5905014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Drumheller drumheller.caregister id csd:4805026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Three Rivers threeriverspei.comregister id csd:1101045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Goderich goderich.caregister id csd:3540028; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Argyle (Nova Scotia) munargyle.comregister id csd:1202001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Rigaud ville.rigaud.qc.caregister id csd:2471133; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Torbay torbay.caregister id csd:1001509; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Zorra-Tavistock ezt.caregister id csd:3532038; 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 | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Stone Mills stonemills.comregister id csd:3511030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Huron centralhuron.comregister id csd:3540025; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 1 | |
| Kirkland Lake discoverkl.caregister id csd:3554068; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Huron-Kinloss huronkinloss.comregister id csd:3541015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Aylmer aylmer.caregister id csd:3534011; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 31 | |
| Clare clarenovascotia.comregister id csd:1203001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Lac la Biche County laclabichecounty.comregister id csd:4812037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Muskoka Lakes muskokalakes.caregister id csd:3544053; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Douro-Dummer dourodummer.on.caregister id csd:3515023; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Acton Vale ville.actonvale.qc.caregister id csd:2448028; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Philippe ville.saintphilippe.quebecregister id csd:2467010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| McNab/Braeside mcnabbraeside.comregister id csd:3547003; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| South-West Oxford swox.orgregister id csd:3532012; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Blandford-Blenheim blandfordblenheim.caregister id csd:3532045; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Bluewater municipalityofbluewater.caregister id csd:3540010; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Shediac shediac.orgregister id csd:1307052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cypress County cypress.ab.caregister id csd:4801003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Edwardsburgh/Cardinal edwardsburghcardinal.caregister id csd:3507004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chandler villedechandler.comregister id csd:2402028; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Coteau-du-Lac coteau-du-lac.comregister id csd:2471040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Alnwick/Haldimand alnwickhaldimand.caregister id csd:3514024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Ritchot no website on recordregister id csd:4602075; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Fort Frances fort-frances.comregister id csd:3559012; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | Gated | 1 | |
| Newell County countyofnewell.ab.caregister id csd:4802031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Taber (Alberta) (Municipal district) mdtaber.ab.caregister id csd:4802021; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Donnacona villededonnacona.comunreachableregister id csd:2434025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Iqaluit iqaluit.caregister id csd:6204003; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 31 | |
| Labrador City labradorwest.comblockedregister id csd:1010032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| North Stormont northstormont.caregister id csd:3501042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Dryden dryden.caregister id csd:3560027; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Augusta augusta.caunreachableregister id csd:3507006; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| St. Marys townofstmarys.comregister id csd:3531016; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Baie-Saint-Paul baiesaintpaul.comregister id csd:2416013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| La Sarre ville.lasarre.qc.caregister id csd:2487090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 1 | |
| Louiseville louiseville.caregister id csd:2451015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ponoka ponoka.caregister id csd:4808039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Drayton Valley draytonvalley.caregister id csd:4811031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 29 | |
| Shefford cantonshefford.qc.caregister id csd:2447035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brownsburg-Chatham brownsburgchatham.caregister id csd:2476043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Digby (Nova Scotia) (Municipal district) digbydistrict.caregister id csd:1203004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Chibougamau ville.chibougamau.qc.caregister id csd:2499025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Whitewater Region whitewaterregion.caregister id csd:3547056; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Westlock County westlockcounty.comregister id csd:4813028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Les Cèdres ville.lescedres.qc.caregister id csd:2471050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dysart et al dysartetal.caregister id csd:3546024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Brazeau County brazeau.ab.caregister id csd:4811032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Bayham bayham.on.caregister id csd:3534005; 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 | |
| Val-des-Sources valdessources.caregister id csd:2440043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Otonabee-South Monaghan osmtownship.caregister id csd:3515005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Chatsworth chatsworth.caregister id csd:3542037; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Merritt merritt.caregister id csd:5933006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Campbellton (New Brunswick) campbellton.orgregister id csd:1314014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Hampstead hampstead.qc.caregister id csd:2466062; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Joseph-du-Lac sjdl.qc.caregister id csd:2472025; 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 | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois st-felix-de-valois.comregister id csd:2462007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 31 | |
| Minden Hills mindenhills.caregister id csd:3546015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Athabasca County athabascacounty.comregister id csd:4813044; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Arran-Elderslie arran-elderslie.comregister id csd:3541043; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 1 | |
| Portage la Prairie (Manitoba) (Rural municipality) no website on recordregister id csd:4609024; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Wainfleet wainfleet.caregister id csd:3526014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Parry Sound townofparrysound.comregister id csd:3549032; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 1 | |
| Slave Lake slavelake.caregister id csd:4817029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 13 | |
| Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) (Town) townofyarmouth.caregister id csd:1202006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon mun-sldl.caregister id csd:2426070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Calixte saint-calixte.caregister id csd:2463055; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Rocky Mountain House rockymtnhouse.comregister id csd:4809015; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| La Broquerie labroquerie.comregister id csd:4602053; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est no website on recordregister id csd:1307005; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Clarenville clarenville.netregister id csd:1007013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Hope (British Columbia) hope.caregister id csd:5909009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| West St. Paul weststpaul.comregister id csd:4613037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Kentville town.kentville.ns.caregister id csd:1207012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| Peace River peaceriver.caregister id csd:4819038; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Wainwright wainwright.caregister id csd:4807054; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cornwall (Prince Edward Island) town.cornwall.pe.caregister id csd:1102085; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gimli gimli.caregister id csd:4618031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Paul saintpaul.quebecregister id csd:2461005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 2 | |
| Devon devon.cablockedregister id csd:4811018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Stephenville townofstephenville.comregister id csd:1004019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 2 | |
| Barrington no website on recordregister id csd:1201001; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Port-Cartier villeport-cartier.comregister id csd:2497022; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cramahe visitcramahe.caregister id csd:3514014; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 4 | |
| Perth perth.caregister id csd:3509021; 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 | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Trent Lakes trentlakes.caregister id csd:3515044; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Shannon shannon.caregister id csd:2422020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Plessisville (Quebec) (Ville) no website on recordregister id csd:2432040; 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 | — | |
| Bonnyville town.bonnyville.ab.caregister id csd:4812009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mont-Joli ville.mont-joli.qc.caregister id csd:2409077; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Honoré ville.sthonore.qc.caregister id csd:2494240; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 31 | |
| Fernie fernie.caregister id csd:5901012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 22 | |
| North Middlesex northmiddlesex.on.caregister id csd:3539041; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 |
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.