US Members of Congress
congress
Every sitting senator, representative, delegate and resident commissioner, with their official website. Left out because the seat was vacant at the build date: FL-20, TX-23.
Median score
28
across 539 sites
Middle half
28–28
spread around the median
Full range
28–33
lowest to highest
Gated
539 of 539
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 14 cohorts. All cohorts 50 · best cohort 58.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | Current members of Congress (legislators-current), The @unitedstates project (unitedstates/congress-legislators) (2026-10-11) |
|---|---|
| License | Dedicated to the public domain by its contributors under CC0 1.0 Universal. The facts in it are the members' own and the House's and Senate's, works of the United States federal government. |
| How we filtered it | Every record in legislators-current.json, which is 100 senators, the sitting voting representatives and the six non-voting members (the delegates for DC, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner). The address is the `url` of the member's current term, which is the member's official website; it is never a campaign site. A House seat with no sitting member is left out and named in the cohort's description, found by comparing the roster with each state's 2020-apportionment seat count. |
| Instead of | The Congress.gov Member API, which is authoritative but needs a key and carries no official-website field for most members. |
| Built | 2026-10-11 |
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 539 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not ready | 539 | 100.0% |
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. |
44% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
17% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
19% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
0% |
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 1, the range 1–1, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
Where this cohort fails
25 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 510 | 0 | |
| EXT-19 | Does robots.txt say where your sitemap is? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 539 | 0 | |
| EXT-5 | Is your page code one connected description of your organization? | 539 | 0 | |
| MSR-7 | Are you set up in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and do you read their AI reports? | 539 | 0 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 539 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 539 | 0 | |
| RCH-2 | Does your website let those crawlers in, or does your security turn them away? | 539 | 12 | |
| RCH-3 | Does each page say which web address is the real one? | 539 | 2 | |
| RED-1 | Is your page's text in the page itself, without needing JavaScript? | 468 | 10 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 539 | 2 | |
| RED-13 | Is the page built from real page parts, like header, main and navigation? | 539 | 1 | |
| RED-14 | Do your headings follow in order, starting from one main heading? | 539 | 1 | |
| RED-3 | Can a crawler trust the 'last changed' dates in your sitemap? | 539 | 2 | |
| RED-8 | Do you have sitemaps for your images and videos? | 539 | 1 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 539 | 2 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 539 | 2 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 539 | 3 | |
| UND-6 | Are your published and updated dates honest and visible? | 539 | 6 |
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 539, 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.
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| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representative Ben Cline (R-VA-6) cline.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide C001118) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8) beyer.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide B001292) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7) vindman.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide V000138) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9) morgangriffith.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide G000568) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) walkinshaw.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide W000831) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2) kiggans.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide K000399) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4) mcclellan.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001227) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative John J. McGuire III (R-VA-5) mcguire.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001239) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3) bobbyscott.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S000185) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1) wittman.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide W000804) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10) subramanyam.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S001230) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Becca Balint (D-VT-0) balint.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide B001318) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Adam Smith (D-WA-9) adamsmith.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S000510) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4) newhouse.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide N000189) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Emily Randall (D-WA-6) randall.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide R000621) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Kim Schrier (D-WA-8) schrier.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S001216) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3) gluesenkampperez.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide G000600) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10) strickland.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S001159) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Michael Baumgartner (R-WA-5) baumgartner.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide B001322) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7) jayapal.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide J000298) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Rick Larsen (D-WA-2) larsen.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide L000560) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1) delbene.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide D000617) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI-1) steil.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide S001213) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3) vanorden.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide V000135) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6) grothman.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide G000576) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI-4) gwenmoore.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001160) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI-2) pocan.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide P000607) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5) fitzgerald.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide F000471) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7) tiffany.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide T000165) | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Tony Wied (R-WI-8) wied.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide W000829) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1) miller.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001205) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Riley M. Moore (R-WV-2) rileymoore.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001235) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Representative Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-0) hageman.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide H001096) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delegate Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS) radewagen.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide R000600) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) norton.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide N000147) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delegate James C. Moylan (R-GU) moylan.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide M001219) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delegate Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-MP) king-hinds.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide K000404) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández (D-PR) hernandez.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide H001103) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delegate Stacey E. Plaskett (D-VI) plaskett.house.govofficial website of the member's current term in unitedstates/congress-legislators (bioguide P000610) | 28 | 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. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json