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 701–800 of 3,493 · page 8 of 35
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardston County cardstoncounty.comregister id csd:4803001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Southwold twp.southwold.on.caregister id csd:3534024; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Jean-de-Matha municipalitestjeandematha.qc.caregister id csd:2462015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Centre Hastings centrehastings.comregister id csd:3512026; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Hearst hearst.caregister id csd:3556076; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gibsons gibsons.cablockedregister id csd:5929005; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hanwell hanwell.nb.caregister id csd:1310017; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 31 | |
| Jasper jasper-alberta.comregister id csd:4815033; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warwick (Quebec) villedewarwick.quebecregister id csd:2439077; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Carbonear carbonear.caregister id csd:1001370; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Morin-Heights morinheights.comregister id csd:2477050; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Asphodel-Norwood antownship.caregister id csd:3515003; 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 | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Antigonish townofantigonish.caregister id csd:1214002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Rivière-Rouge riviere-rouge.caregister id csd:2479037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 5 | |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton sddb.cablockedregister id csd:2442025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; The published address had a path; it was cut to the site root; not measured: HTTP 429 (rate limited) at every rate tried, after 4 attempts | — | No | — | |
| Guysborough municipality.guysborough.ns.caregister id csd:1213004; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Nipawin nipawin.comregister id csd:4714076; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Cornwallis no website on recordregister id csd:4607060; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Kindersley kindersley.caregister id csd:4713008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 31 | |
| Saint-Donat (Quebec) (Municipalité) saint-donat.caregister id csd:2462060; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Woodlands County woodlands.ab.caregister id csd:4813029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sutton sutton.caregister id csd:2446058; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu st-mathias.orgregister id csd:2455065; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Saint-Étienne-des-Grès mun-stedg.qc.caregister id csd:2451090; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Tyendinaga tyendinagatownship.comregister id csd:3512001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saint-Agapit st-agapit.qc.caregister id csd:2433045; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| St. Stephen town.ststephen.nb.caregister id csd:1302037; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Melville melville.caregister id csd:4705074; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Neuville ville.neuville.qc.caregister id csd:2434007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Edenwold No. 158 rmedenwold.caregister id csd:4706029; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Cumberland no website on recordregister id csd:5926014; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Sussex sussex.caregister id csd:1305022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Château-Richer chateauricher.qc.caregister id csd:2421035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Iroquois Falls iroquoisfalls.comregister id csd:3556031; 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 | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northern Bruce Peninsula northbrucepeninsula.caregister id csd:3541069; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Battleford battleford.caregister id csd:4712079; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Hampton townofhampton.caregister id csd:1305007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Montréal-Est ville.montreal-est.qc.caregister id csd:2466007; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Berthierville ville.berthierville.qc.caregister id csd:2452035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Hastings Highlands hastingshighlands.caregister id csd:3512076; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Vanderhoof vanderhoof.caregister id csd:5951007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Antonin ville.saint-antonin.qc.caregister id csd:2412015; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Shelburne (Nova Scotia) (Municipal district) municipalityofshelburne.caunreachableregister id csd:1201006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| Headingley rmofheadingley.caregister id csd:4611042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Amaranth amaranth.caregister id csd:3522008; 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 | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Barrhead barrhead.caregister id csd:4813019; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Greenstone greenstone.caregister id csd:3558075; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Jacques st-jacques.orgregister id csd:2463013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Beresford no website on recordregister id csd:1315015; No website is published for it in Wikidata | — | No | — | |
| Warner County No. 5 countyofwarner5.ab.caregister id csd:4802001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caraquet caraquet.caregister id csd:1315028; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Wainwright No. 61 mdwainwright.caregister id csd:4807049; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Marmora and Lake marmoraandlake.caregister id csd:3512046; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 31 | |
| Altona altona.caregister id csd:4603040; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Bowen Island bowenislandmunicipality.caregister id csd:5915062; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Vulcan County vulcancounty.ab.caregister id csd:4805001; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Roxton Pond roxtonpond.caregister id csd:2447047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Raymond raymond.caregister id csd:4802008; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Deep River deepriver.caregister id csd:3547096; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 31 | |
| Crabtree crabtree.quebecregister id csd:2461013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| New Maryland vonm.caregister id csd:1310002; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 31 | |
| Dutton/Dunwich duttondunwich.on.caregister id csd:3534030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northern Lights County countyofnorthernlights.comregister id csd:4817076; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Sparwood sparwood.caregister id csd:5901006; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rossland rossland.caregister id csd:5905023; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix ville.metabetchouan.qc.caregister id csd:2493012; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Beaupré villedebeaupre.comregister id csd:2421025; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Grand Forks grandforks.cablockedregister id csd:5905032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Red Lake red-lake.comregister id csd:3560042; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare saintambroise.caregister id csd:2461040; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Carleton-sur-Mer carletonsurmer.comregister id csd:2406013; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| La Pocatière no website on recordregister id csd:2414085; 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 | — | |
| Prescott prescott.caregister id csd:3507008; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bancroft bancroft.caregister id csd:3512061; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 31 | |
| Swan River swanrivermanitoba.caregister id csd:4620048; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Saint-Anselme st-anselme.caregister id csd:2419062; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Howick (Ontario) howick.caregister id csd:3540046; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Lac-Etchemin lac-etchemin.caregister id csd:2428053; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Napierville napierville.caregister id csd:2468030; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Stellarton stellarton.caregister id csd:1212009; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Golden golden.caregister id csd:5939007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Oka municipalite.oka.qc.caregister id csd:2472032; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Callander mycallander.caregister id csd:3549066; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Casselman en.casselman.caregister id csd:3502044; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vermilion vermilion.caregister id csd:4810042; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northern Rockies northernrockies.caregister id csd:5959007; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Madawaska Valley madawaskavalley.caregister id csd:3547030; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| High Level highlevel.caregister id csd:4817093; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 41 | No | 16 | |
| De Salaberry rmdesalaberry.mb.caregister id csd:4602032; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ormstown ormstown.cablockedregister id csd:2469037; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Invermere invermere.netregister id csd:5901039; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| North Norfolk northnorfolk.caregister id csd:4608046; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Montague township.montague.on.caregister id csd:3509001; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 1 | |
| Port Hardy porthardy.caregister id csd:5943023; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bonnechere Valley bonnecherevalleytwp.comregister id csd:3547035; address from Ontario MMAH list of municipalities (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Danville danville.caregister id csd:2440047; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Saint-Ambroise st-ambroise.qc.caregister id csd:2494255; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 31 | |
| Smoky Lake County smokylakecounty.ab.caregister id csd:4812022; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs sadl.qc.caregister id csd:2477035; address from MAMH Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Alexander no website on recordregister id csd:4601071; 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.