US Counties
counties
Every US county and county equivalent.
Median score
33
across 3016 sites
Middle half
28–33
spread around the median
Full range
13–74
lowest to highest
Gated
2636 of 3016
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 | US counties and county equivalents, Census Vintage 2025, US Census Bureau, with CISA and Wikidata (2025-vintage) |
|---|---|
| License | No restriction on the combined list. The roster is a work of the US federal government and carries no copyright, the CISA .gov registry is public domain, and Wikidata is CC0 1.0 Universal; the cohort goes out under the Census's CC BY-SA 4.0 like the rest. |
| How we filtered it | The roster is every row of the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates (sub-est2025.csv) with SUMLEV 050, which is 3,144 counties and county equivalents. Each county's address was looked up in the CISA .gov registry first, then in Wikidata (P856, official website, joined on the FIPS code in P882) where the registry had nothing, then resolved by hand for the remainder; every hand-resolved row was confirmed by loading the site. 57 rows carry no address, each with the reason: 27 county equivalents with no general-purpose county government, 6 South Dakota counties that maintain no website, and 24 that are unresolved and want a manual pass. |
| 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 3016 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate | 110 | 3.6% | |
| Not ready | 2507 | 83.1% | |
| Weak | 399 | 13.2% |
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. |
50% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
25% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
20% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
67% |
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 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
93 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
12 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 3016 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 3016 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 2169 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 3016 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 2655 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 7 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 72 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 22 | 0 | |
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 357 | 2 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 3016 | 2 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 3016 | 3 | |
| UND-9 | If a page is behind a paywall, does it say so? | 1 | 2 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 3016 | 2 | |
| UND-10 | Does your page code link to your official profiles elsewhere? | 3016 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 3016 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 3016 | 0 | |
| RED-5 | Do your PDFs and images have their own rules for search and quoting? | 357 | 1 | |
| MSR-7 | Are you set up in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and do you read their AI reports? | 3016 | 0 | |
| UND-6 | Are your published and updated dates honest and visible? | 3016 | 6 | |
| EXT-13 | Can an assistant ask your site a question directly? | 3016 | 0 | |
| PST-4 | Have you reserved your text and data mining rights in a form machines can read? | 3016 | 0 | |
| RCH-3 | Does each page say which web address is the real one? | 3016 | 2 | |
| EXT-4 | Can an AI assistant connect to your site as a tool? | 3016 | 0 | |
| EXT-5 | Is your page code one connected description of your organization? | 3016 | 0 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 287 | 1 | |
| RED-13 | Is the page built from real page parts, like header, main and navigation? | 3016 | 1 |
Common — 90 to 95%
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 3,144, 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 1–100 of 3,144 · page 1 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autauga County, Alabama autaugaco.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Baldwin County, Alabama baldwincountyal.govregistered as Baldwin County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barbour County, Alabama barbourcountyal.govregistered as Barbour County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bibb County, Alabama bibbal.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 4 | |
| Blount County, Alabama blountcountyal.govregistered as Blount County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bullock County, Alabama bullockcountyal.govregistered as Bullock County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butler County, Alabama butlercountyal.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calhoun County, Alabama calhouncountyal.govregistered as Calhoun County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chambers County, Alabama chamberscountyal.govregistered as Chambers County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cherokee County, Alabama cherokeecounty-al.govregistered as Cherokee County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chilton County, Alabama chiltoncountyso.govregistered as Chilton County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Choctaw County, Alabama choctawcountyal.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarke County, Alabama clarkecountyal.govregistered as Clarke County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Alabama no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Cleburne County, Alabama cleburnecounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coffee County, Alabama coffeecounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colbert County, Alabama colbertcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | No | 10 | |
| Conecuh County, Alabama conecuhcounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 42 | No | 1 | |
| Coosa County, Alabama coosacountyal.govregistered as Coosa County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Covington County, Alabama covingtoncountyal.govregistered as Covington County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crenshaw County, Alabama crenshawcounty.govregistered as Crenshaw County Emergency Management in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cullman County, Alabama co.cullman.al.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Dale County, Alabama dalecountyal.govregistered as Dale County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dallas County, Alabama dallascowateral.govregistered as Dallas County Water & Sewer Authority in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeKalb County, Alabama dekalbcountyal.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | Gated | 19 | |
| Elmore County, Alabama elmoreco.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Escambia County, Alabama escambiacountyal.govregistered as Escambia County Commission of Alabama in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Etowah County, Alabama etowahcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 30 | |
| Fayette County, Alabama fayetteal.orgunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| Franklin County, Alabama franklincountyal.govregistered as Franklin County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Geneva County, Alabama genevacountyal.govregistered as Geneva County Probate Judge in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Alabama greenecountyalabama.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 13 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hale County, Alabama halecountyal.govregistered as Hale County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henry County, Alabama henrycountyal.govregistered as Henry County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Houston County, Alabama houstoncountyal.govregistered as Houston County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Alabama jacksoncountyal.govregistered as Jackson County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Alabama jeffconline.jccal.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lamar County, Alabama lamarcountyal.govregistered as Lamar County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lauderdale County, Alabama lauderdalecountyal.govregistered as Lauderdale County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, Alabama lawrencecountyal.govregistered as Lawrence County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lee County, Alabama leecountyal.govregistered as Lee County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Limestone County, Alabama limestonecounty-al.govregistered as Limestone County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lowndes County, Alabama lowndes-al.govregistered as Lowndes County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Macon County, Alabama maconcountyal.govregistered as Macon County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Alabama madisoncountyal.govregistered as Madison County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marengo County, Alabama marengocountyal.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Marion County, Alabama marioncountyal.govregistered as Marion County Commission in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, Alabama marshallal.govregistered as Marshall County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mobile County, Alabama mobilecountyal.govregistered as Mobile County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Alabama monroecountyal.govregistered as Monroe County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Alabama montgomerycountyal.govregistered as Montgomery County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Alabama morgancounty-al.govregistered as Morgan County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Perry County, Alabama perrycountyal.govregistered as Perry County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pickens County, Alabama pickensalabama.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pike County, Alabama alabamagis.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Randolph County, Alabama randolphcountyal.govregistered as Randolph County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Russell County, Alabama russellcountyal.govregistered as Russell County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Clair County, Alabama stclairco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shelby County, Alabama shelbycountyalabama.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sumter County, Alabama sumtercountyal.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 38 | Gated | 24 | |
| Talladega County, Alabama talladegacountyal.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tallapoosa County, Alabama tallaco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Tuscaloosa County, Alabama tuscco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Walker County, Alabama walkercounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Alabama washingtoncountyal.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 30 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wilcox County, Alabama wilcoxcountyal.govregistered as WILCOX COUNTY COMMISSION in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winston County, Alabama winstonal.govregistered as Winston County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Aleutians East Borough, Alaska aleutianseast.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Anchorage Municipality, Alaska muni.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Bethel Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska theborough.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 70 | No | 1 | |
| Chugach Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Copper River Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Denali Borough, Alaska denaliborough.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Dillingham Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska fnsb.govregistered as Fairbanks North Star Borough in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Haines Borough, Alaska hainesalaska.govregistered as Haines Borough in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Juneau City and Borough, Alaska juneau.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska borough.kenai.ak.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska borough.ketchikan.ak.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | No | 13 | |
| Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska kodiak.govregistered as Kodiak Island Borough in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska lakeandpen.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 49 | Gated | 9 | |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska matsu.govregistered as Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nome Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| North Slope Borough, Alaska north-slope.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska nwabor.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Petersburg Borough, Alaska ci.petersburg.ak.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 15 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Sitka City and Borough, Alaska cityofsitka.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Skagway Municipality, Alaska skagway.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Wrangell City and Borough, Alaska wrangell.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska yakutatak.govoffice2.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 68 | No | 1 | |
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska no website on recordAK census area in the Unorganized Borough | — | No | — | |
| Apache County, Arizona apachecountyaz.govregistered as Apache County, Arizona in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cochise County, Arizona cochise.govregistered as Cochise County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coconino County, Arizona coconino.az.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 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