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 1,101–1,200 of 3,144 · page 12 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby County, Kentucky shelbycounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Simpson County, Kentucky simpsoncountyky.govregistered as Simpson County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Spencer County, Kentucky spencercountyky.govregistered as Spencer County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taylor County, Kentucky taylorcountyky.govregistered as Taylor County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Todd County, Kentucky toddcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trigg County, Kentucky triggcounty.ky.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trimble County, Kentucky trimblecountyky.govregistered as Trimble County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Union County, Kentucky unioncountyky.govregistered as Union County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warren County, Kentucky warrencountyky.govregistered as Warren County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Kentucky washingtoncountyky.govregistered as Washington County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Kentucky monticellokychamber.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 35 | Gated | 32 | |
| Webster County, Kentucky webstercountyky.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Whitley County, Kentucky whitleycountyfiscalcourt.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Wolfe County, Kentucky wolfecoclerkky.govregistered as Wolfe County Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Woodford County, Kentucky woodfordcountyky.govregistered as Woodford County Fiscal Court in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Acadia Parish, Louisiana acadiaparishclerk.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 30 | |
| Allen Parish, Louisiana allenparish.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ascension Parish, Louisiana ascensionparishla.govregistered as Ascension Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Assumption Parish, Louisiana assumptionla.govregistered as Assumption Parish Police Jury in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana avoypj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 30 | |
| Beauregard Parish, Louisiana beauparish.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bienville Parish, Louisiana bienvilleparish.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 30 | |
| Bossier Parish, Louisiana bossierparishla.govregistered as Bossier Parish Police Jury in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caddo Parish, Louisiana caddo.govregistered as Caddo Parish Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana calcasieu.govregistered as Calcasieu Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caldwell Parish, Louisiana caldwellparish.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cameron Parish, Louisiana no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Catahoula Parish, Louisiana discovercatahoula.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | Gated | 1 | |
| Claiborne Parish, Louisiana claiborneone.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 29 | |
| Concordia Parish, Louisiana conppj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| De Soto Parish, Louisiana desotoppj.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana brgov.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| East Carroll Parish, Louisiana no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana eastfelicianaparish.orgweb 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 | |
| Evangeline Parish, Louisiana evangelineparishpolicejury.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 7 | |
| Franklin Parish, Louisiana no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Grant Parish, Louisiana gppj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Iberia Parish, Louisiana iberiaparishgovernment.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Iberville Parish, Louisiana ibervilleoep.govregistered as Iberville Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson Parish, Louisiana jacksonparishpolicejury.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jefferson Parish, Louisiana jeffparish.govregistered as Jefferson Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana jeffdavis.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 30 | |
| Lafayette Parish, Louisiana lafayettela.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lafourche Parish, Louisiana lafourchegov.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 32 | |
| La Salle Parish, Louisiana no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Lincoln Parish, Louisiana lincolnparish.govregistered as Lincoln Parish Police Jury in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Livingston Parish, Louisiana livingstonparishla.govregistered as Livingston Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison Parish, Louisiana madisonparish.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morehouse Parish, Louisiana no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana historicnatchitoches.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 35 | Gated | 9 | |
| Orleans Parish, Louisiana opso.govregistered as Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ouachita Parish, Louisiana oppj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 31 | |
| Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana plaqueminesparish.govregistered as Plaquemines Parish Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana pcparish.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | No | 29 | |
| Rapides Parish, Louisiana rppj.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Red River Parish, Louisiana rrppj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 1 | |
| Richland Parish, Louisiana rppjinfo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 8 | |
| Sabine Parish, Louisiana sabineparishpolicejury.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 1 | |
| St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana sbpg.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Charles Parish, Louisiana stcharlesparish-la.govregistered as St. Charles Parish in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Helena Parish, Louisiana sthelenaparish.la.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. James Parish, Louisiana stjamesparishla.govregistered as St. James Parish Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana sjbparish.govregistered as St. John the Baptist Parish in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Landry Parish, Louisiana stlandry.govregistered as St Landry Parish Gov in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Martin Parish, Louisiana stmartinparish.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| St. Mary Parish, Louisiana stmaryparishla.govregistered as St. Mary Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana stpsola.govregistered as St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana tangipahoa.govregistered as Tangipahoa Parish Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tensas Parish, Louisiana louisiana.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 | |
| Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana tpcg.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 4 | |
| Union Parish, Louisiana uppj.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | No | 25 | |
| Vermilion Parish, Louisiana vermilionsheriff.govregistered as Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vernon Parish, Louisiana vppjla.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 38 | Gated | 30 | |
| Washington Parish, Louisiana wpgov.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | No | 11 | |
| Webster Parish, Louisiana websterparishla.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 57 | No | 2 | |
| West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana wbrcouncil.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| West Carroll Parish, Louisiana westcarrollclerk.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 67 | No | 7 | |
| West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana stfrancisville.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 26 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winn Parish, Louisiana winnsheriff.govregistered as Winn Parish Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Androscoggin County, Maine androscoggincountymaine.govregistered as County of Androscoggin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Aroostook County, Maine aroostook.me.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Cumberland County, Maine cumberlandcountyme.govregistered as County of Cumberland, Maine in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Maine franklincountymaine.govregistered as franklin County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, Maine hancockcountymaine.govregistered as Hancock County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kennebec County, Maine kennebec.govregistered as Kennebec County Government Center in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Knox County, Maine knoxcountymaine.govregistered as County of Knox in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Maine lincolncountymaine.govregistered as Lincoln County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oxford County, Maine oxfordcounty.govregistered as Oxford County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Penobscot County, Maine penobscot-county.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Piscataquis County, Maine piscataquis.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 35 | Gated | 32 | |
| Sagadahoc County, Maine sagadahoccountyme.govregistered as Sagadahoc County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Somerset County, Maine somersetcountyme.govregistered as Somerset County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Waldo County, Maine waldocountyme.govregistered as County of Waldo in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Maine washingtoncountymaine.govregistered as County of Washington in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| York County, Maine yorkcountymaine.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Allegany County, Maryland alleganygov.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Anne Arundel County, Maryland aacounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 19 | |
| Baltimore County, Maryland baltimorecountymd.govregistered as Baltimore County, Maryland in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calvert County, Maryland calvertcountymd.govregistered as Calvert County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caroline County, Maryland carolinemd.govregistered as Caroline County Commissioners Office in the .gov registry | 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. Data: sites.csv · checks.csv · summary.json