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 1,001–1,100 of 3,144 · page 11 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath County, Kentucky bathcoclerkky.govregistered as Bath County Clerk in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bell County, Kentucky bellcountychamber.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Boone County, Kentucky boonecountyky.govregistered as Boone County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bourbon County, Kentucky parisky.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boyd County, Kentucky boydcountyky.govregistered as Boyd County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boyle County, Kentucky boylecountyky.govregistered as Boyle County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bracken County, Kentucky brackencounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Breathitt County, Kentucky breathittcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Breckinridge County, Kentucky breckinridgecountyky.govregistered as Breckinridge County Sheriff Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bullitt County, Kentucky bullittky.govregistered as Bullitt County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butler County, Kentucky butlercountyky.govregistered as Butler County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caldwell County, Kentucky caldwellky.govregistered as Caldwell County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calloway County, Kentucky callkyso.govregistered as Calloway County Sheriff's Office - KY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Campbell County, Kentucky campbellcountyky.govregistered as Campbell County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carlisle County, Kentucky carlislecounty.govregistered as Carlisle County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Kentucky carrollcountyky.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Carter County, Kentucky kyhometown.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 18 | Gated | 1 | |
| Casey County, Kentucky caseycountyky.govregistered as Casey County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Christian County, Kentucky christiancountyky.govregistered as Christian County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clark County, Kentucky clarkcoky.govregistered as Clark County Kentucky in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Kentucky claycoclerkky.govregistered as Clay County Clerk in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clinton County, Kentucky albanyclintonco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Crittenden County, Kentucky marionky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cumberland County, Kentucky cumberlandcounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 67 | No | 1 | |
| Daviess County, Kentucky dcsoky.govregistered as Daviess County Sheriffs Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Edmonson County, Kentucky edmonsoncountyky.govregistered as Edmonson County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elliott County, Kentucky elliottcountyky.govregistered as Elliott County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Estill County, Kentucky estillcountyky.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fayette County, Kentucky fayettekyclerk.govregistered as Fayette County Clerk in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fleming County, Kentucky flemingcountyhealthky.govregistered as Fleming County Health Dept. in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Floyd County, Kentucky floydcoclerkky.govregistered as Floyd County Clerk in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Kentucky franklincounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fulton County, Kentucky fultoncountyky.govregistered as Fulton County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gallatin County, Kentucky gallatinky.govregistered as Gallatin County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Garrard County, Kentucky garrardcountyky.govregistered as Garrard County Judge Executive in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, Kentucky grantcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Graves County, Kentucky gravescountyky.govregistered as Graves County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grayson County, Kentucky graysoncountyky.govregistered as Grayson County Judge Executive in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Green County, Kentucky greensburgonline.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 406 | — | No | — | |
| Greenup County, Kentucky greenupcountyky.govregistered as County of Greenup in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, Kentucky hancockcountyky.govregistered as Hancock County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hardin County, Kentucky hardincountyky.govregistered as Hardin County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harlan County, Kentucky harlancountyclerk.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 37 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harrison County, Kentucky harrisoncountyfiscalcourt.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Hart County, Kentucky hartcountyky.govregistered as Hart County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henderson County, Kentucky hendersoncountyky.govregistered as HENDERSON COUNTY FISCAL COURT in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henry County, Kentucky henrycountygov.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hickman County, Kentucky hickmancounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hopkins County, Kentucky hopkinscounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Kentucky jacksoncountyky.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Kentucky jeffersonsheriffky.govregistered as Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jessamine County, Kentucky jessamineky.govregistered as Jessamine County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Kentucky johnsoncountyky.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kenton County, Kentucky kentoncountyky.govregistered as Kenton County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Knott County, Kentucky knottcountyky.govregistered as Knott County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Knox County, Kentucky knoxky.govregistered as Knox County, Kentucky in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Larue County, Kentucky laruecountyky.govregistered as LaRue County Courthouse in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Laurel County, Kentucky laurelcoky.govregistered as Laurel County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, Kentucky lawrencecountyky.govregistered as Lawrence County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lee County, Kentucky leecounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leslie County, Kentucky lesliecoclerkky.govregistered as Leslie County Clerks Office in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Letcher County, Kentucky letchercounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lewis County, Kentucky lewiscountyky.govregistered as Lewis County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Kentucky lincolncoclerkky.govregistered as Lincoln County Clerk in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Livingston County, Kentucky livingstonco.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Logan County, Kentucky logancountyky.govregistered as Logan County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lyon County, Kentucky lyoncountyky.govregistered as Lyon County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McCracken County, Kentucky mccrackenpva.govregistered as MCCRACKEN COUNTY PROPERTY VALUATION ADMINISTRATOR in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McCreary County, Kentucky mccrearycountyky.govregistered as McCreary County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McLean County, Kentucky mcleancountyky.govregistered as McLean County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Kentucky madisoncountyky.govregistered as Madison County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Magoffin County, Kentucky magoffincounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Kentucky marioncountyky.govregistered as Marion County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, Kentucky marshallcountyky.govregistered as Marshall County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Martin County, Kentucky martinhealthky.govregistered as Martin County Health Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mason County, Kentucky masonkysheriff.govregistered as Mason County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Meade County, Kentucky meadeky.govregistered as Meade County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Menifee County, Kentucky menifeecounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mercer County, Kentucky mercercounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Metcalfe County, Kentucky metcalfecountyky.govregistered as Metcalfe County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Kentucky monroecounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Kentucky montgomerycountyhealthky.govregistered as Montgomery County Health Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Kentucky morgancoclerkky.govregistered as Morgan County Clerk in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Muhlenberg County, Kentucky muhlenbergcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nelson County, Kentucky nelsoncountyky.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 22 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nicholas County, Kentucky nicholascounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ohio County, Kentucky ohiocountyky.govregistered as Ohio County, KY Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oldham County, Kentucky oldhamcountyky.govregistered as Oldham County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Owen County, Kentucky owencounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Owsley County, Kentucky owsleycountykentucky.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 30 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pendleton County, Kentucky pendletoncountyky.govregistered as Pendleton County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Perry County, Kentucky perrycountyky.govregistered as Perry County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pike County, Kentucky pikeky.govregistered as Pike County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Powell County, Kentucky powellcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pulaski County, Kentucky pulaskiky.govregistered as Pulaski County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Robertson County, Kentucky robertsoncounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rockcastle County, Kentucky rockcastlecountysheriff.govregistered as Rockcastle County Sheriffs Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rowan County, Kentucky rowancdcky.govregistered as Rowan County Detention Center in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Russell County, Kentucky russellcountyky.govregistered as Russell County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Scott County, Kentucky scottky.govregistered as Scott County Fiscal Court in 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