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 601–700 of 3,493 · page 7 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Paul County No. 19 county.stpaul.ab.caregister id csd:4812014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Charlemagne charlemagne.caregister id csd:2460005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Kent kentbc.caregister id csd:5909032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pointe-Calumet pointe-calumet.caregister id csd:2472020; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Princeville princeville.quebecregister id csd:2432033; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Beauceville ville.beauceville.qc.caregister id csd:2427028; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pontiac municipalitepontiac.comregister id csd:2482030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 30 | |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Monts villesadm.netregister id csd:2404037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel mont-carmel.orgregister id csd:2437235; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| L'Ange-Gardien (Quebec) (Municipalité) (csd:2482005) municipalitedelangegardien.comregister id csd:2482005; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Sackville no website on recordregister id csd:1307009; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Willow Creek No. 26 mdwillowcreek.comregister id csd:4803018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Tweed tweed.caregister id csd:3512030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Oliver Paipoonge oliverpaipoonge.on.caregister id csd:3558011; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Humboldt cityofhumboldt.caregister id csd:4715008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 1 | |
| Petrolia town.petrolia.on.caregister id csd:3538019; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Amqui amqui.caregister id csd:2407047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Bay Roberts bayroberts.comregister id csd:1001409; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 30 | |
| Saint-Césaire villesaintcesaire.comregister id csd:2455023; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Melfort cityofmelfort.caregister id csd:4714051; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Niverville whereyoubelong.caregister id csd:4602046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| McMasterville mcmasterville.cablockedregister id csd:2457025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Tay Valley tayvalleytwp.caregister id csd:3509015; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lac-Brome lacbrome.caregister id csd:2446075; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Southwest Middlesex southwestmiddlesex.caregister id csd:3539005; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh acwtownship.caregister id csd:3540063; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| South Bruce town.southbruce.on.caregister id csd:3541004; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Barrhead County No. 11 countybarrhead.ab.caregister id csd:4813018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Beaver County beaver.ab.caregister id csd:4810016; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Paul stpaul.cablockedregister id csd:4812018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Pie villest-pie.caregister id csd:2454008; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Sioux Lookout siouxlookout.caregister id csd:3560034; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rhineland no website on recordregister id csd:4603041; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Saint-Henri saint-henri.caunreachableregister id csd:2419068; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Peachland peachland.caregister id csd:5935018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Verchères ville.vercheres.qc.caunreachableregister id csd:2459025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Lac-Mégantic ville.lac-megantic.qc.caregister id csd:2430030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Richelieu ville.richelieu.qc.caregister id csd:2455057; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 75 | No | 31 | |
| Lanark Highlands lanarkhighlands.caregister id csd:3509039; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Stettler stettler.netblockedregister id csd:4807026; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Crowsnest Pass crowsnestpass.comregister id csd:4815007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vegreville vegreville.comregister id csd:4810028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Neepawa neepawa.caregister id csd:4615020; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 30 | |
| Lucan Biddulph lucanbiddulph.on.caregister id csd:3539060; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 31 | |
| Stettler County No. 6 stettlercounty.caregister id csd:4807019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 20 | |
| Sainte-Martine sainte-martine.caregister id csd:2470012; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 29 | |
| Les Coteaux les-coteaux.qc.caregister id csd:2471033; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| The Pas townofthepas.comregister id csd:4621045; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 31 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ste. Anne (Manitoba) (Rural municipality) no website on recordregister id csd:4602057; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Creston creston.caregister id csd:5903004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Redcliff redcliff.caregister id csd:4801018; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 38 | No | 1 | |
| Val-David valdavid.comregister id csd:2478010; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 45 | Gated | 31 | |
| Osoyoos osoyoos.caregister id csd:5907005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Woodstock (New Brunswick) town.woodstock.nb.caregister id csd:1311006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan sra.quebecregister id csd:2463035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Brokenhead rmofbrokenhead.caregister id csd:4612054; 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 | |
| Hudson (Quebec) hudson.quebecblockedregister id csd:2471100; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Cochrane (Ontario) cochraneontario.comregister id csd:3556042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Gananoque gananoque.caregister id csd:3507024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Smithers smithers.caregister id csd:5951043; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Cookshire-Eaton cookshire-eaton.qc.caregister id csd:2441038; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Armstrong (British Columbia) cityofarmstrong.bc.caregister id csd:5937028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Meadow Lake meadowlake.caregister id csd:4717052; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Spallumcheen spallumcheentwp.bc.caregister id csd:5937024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Chertsey chertsey.caregister id csd:2462047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Windsor (Quebec) villedewindsor.qc.caregister id csd:2442088; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Seguin twp.seguin.on.caregister id csd:3549003; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault grandsault.comregister id csd:1312019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 31 | |
| Marystown townofmarystown.caregister id csd:1002024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 1 | |
| Espanola espanola.caregister id csd:3552026; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Boniface municipalitesaint-boniface.caregister id csd:2451085; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Lanoraie lanoraie.caregister id csd:2452017; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Montréal-Ouest montreal-west.caregister id csd:2466047; 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 | 48 | Gated | 10 | |
| Oliver oliver.caregister id csd:5907014; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Havelock-Belmont-Methuen hbmtwp.caregister id csd:3515030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Didsbury didsbury.caregister id csd:4806032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Metchosin metchosin.caregister id csd:5917042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| West Elgin westelgin.netblockedregister id csd:3534042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Wolfville wolfville.caregister id csd:1207024; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac temiscouatasurlelac.caregister id csd:2413073; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 1 | |
| North Huron northhuron.caregister id csd:3540055; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Duncan duncan.caunreachableregister id csd:5919012; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Stonewall stonewall.caregister id csd:4614039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Memramcook memramcook.comregister id csd:1307013; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue sadb.qc.caregister id csd:2466117; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stirling-Rawdon stirling-rawdon.comregister id csd:3512020; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce vsjb.caregister id csd:2427043; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Orford canton.orford.qc.caregister id csd:2445115; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kneehill County kneehillcounty.comregister id csd:4805041; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 26 | |
| Big Lakes County biglakescounty.caregister id csd:4817027; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Grand Bay-Westfield town.grandbay-westfield.nb.caregister id csd:1305015; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| East Ferris eastferris.caregister id csd:3548034; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | No | 32 | |
| Flin Flon (Part) (Manitoba) cityofflinflon.caregister id csd:4621064; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Germain-de-Grantham st-germain.infounreachableregister id csd:2449048; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Westlock westlock.caregister id csd:4813031; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Waterloo (Quebec) ville.waterloo.qc.caregister id csd:2447025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover stcyrille.qc.caregister id csd:2449070; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carstairs carstairs.caregister id csd:4806029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Central Frontenac centralfrontenac.comregister id csd:3510035; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Deer Lake town.deerlake.nf.caregister id csd:1005004; address from Wikidata P856 (low 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.