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 1,401–1,500 of 3,144 · page 15 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winona County, Minnesota winonacounty.govregistered as Winona County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wright County, Minnesota wrightcountymn.govregistered as Wright County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota co.ym.mn.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adams County, Mississippi adamscountyms.govregistered as Adams County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alcorn County, Mississippi alcorncountyms.govregistered as Alcorn County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Amite County, Mississippi amitecountyms.govregistered as Amite County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Attala County, Mississippi attalacounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Benton County, Mississippi bentoncountyms.govregistered as Benton County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bolivar County, Mississippi co.bolivar.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 11 | |
| Calhoun County, Mississippi calhouncoms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Mississippi carrollcountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Chickasaw County, Mississippi chickasawcountyms.govregistered as Chickasaw County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Choctaw County, Mississippi choctawcountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Claiborne County, Mississippi claibornecountyms.govregistered as Claiborne County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarke County, Mississippi clarkecountyms.govregistered as Clarke County Mississippi Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Mississippi claycountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coahoma County, Mississippi coahomacountyms.govregistered as Coahoma County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Copiah County, Mississippi copiahcountyms.govregistered as Copiah County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Covington County, Mississippi covingtoncountyms.govregistered as Covington County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeSoto County, Mississippi desotocountyms.govregistered as Desoto County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Forrest County, Mississippi co.forrest.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Mississippi franklincountyms.govregistered as Franklin County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| George County, Mississippi georgecountyms.govregistered as George County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Mississippi greenecountyms.govregistered as Greene County MS Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grenada County, Mississippi no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Hancock County, Mississippi hancockcounty.ms.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harrison County, Mississippi harrisoncountyms.govregistered as Harrison County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hinds County, Mississippi hindscountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Holmes County, Mississippi holmescountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Humphreys County, Mississippi humphreyscounty.msweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 42 | Gated | 1 | |
| Issaquena County, Mississippi issaquenacountyms.govregistered as Issaquena County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Itawamba County, Mississippi itawamba.govregistered as Itawamba County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Mississippi jacksoncountyms.govregistered as Jackson County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jasper County, Mississippi co.jasper.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 31 | |
| Jefferson County, Mississippi jeffersoncountyms.govregistered as Jefferson County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi jeffersondaviscountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jones County, Mississippi jonescounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Kemper County, Mississippi kempercountyms.govregistered as Kemper County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lafayette County, Mississippi lafayettems.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Lamar County, Mississippi lamarcountyms.govregistered as Lamar County Mississippi in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lauderdale County, Mississippi lauderdalecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, Mississippi lawrencecountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leake County, Mississippi leakecountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Lee County, Mississippi leecountyms.govregistered as Lee County MS in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leflore County, Mississippi leflorecounty.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Lincoln County, Mississippi golincolnms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Lowndes County, Mississippi lowndescountyms.govregistered as Lowndes County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Mississippi madison-co.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Marion County, Mississippi marioncountyms.govregistered as Marion County, Mississippi in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, Mississippi marshallcoms.govregistered as Marshall County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Mississippi monroecountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 41 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Mississippi montgomerycountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 21 | |
| Neshoba County, Mississippi neshobacounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Newton County, Mississippi newtoncountysheriffms.govregistered as Newton County Sheriff Dept. in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Noxubee County, Mississippi noxubeecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Oktibbeha County, Mississippi oktibbehacountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Panola County, Mississippi panolacoms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | No | 28 | |
| Pearl River County, Mississippi pearlrivercounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | No | 12 | |
| Perry County, Mississippi co.quitman.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pike County, Mississippi pikecountyms.govregistered as Pike County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pontotoc County, Mississippi pontotoccountyms.govregistered as Pontotoc County MS in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prentiss County, Mississippi prentisscounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 5 | |
| Quitman County, Mississippi quitmancountyms.govregistered as Quitman County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rankin County, Mississippi rankincounty.orgunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| Scott County, Mississippi scottcountyms.govregistered as Scott County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sharkey County, Mississippi sharkeycountyms.govregistered as Sharkey County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Simpson County, Mississippi simpsoncountyms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Smith County, Mississippi smithcountyms.govregistered as Smith County MS Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stone County, Mississippi stonecountyms.govregistered as Stone County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sunflower County, Mississippi sunflowercounty.ms.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 | |
| Tallahatchie County, Mississippi tallahatchiecountysheriffofficems.govregistered as Tallahatchie County Sheriff Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tate County, Mississippi tatecountyms.govregistered as Tate County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tippah County, Mississippi co.tippah.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tishomingo County, Mississippi co.tishomingo.ms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tunica County, Mississippi tunicacounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 26 | Gated | 1 | |
| Union County, Mississippi unioncoms.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Walthall County, Mississippi walthallchamber.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Warren County, Mississippi warrencountyms.govregistered as Warren County MS Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Mississippi washingtoncountyms.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 18 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Mississippi waynecountyms.govregistered as Wayne County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Webster County, Mississippi webstercountyms.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wilkinson County, Mississippi wilkinson.co.ms.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winston County, Mississippi winstoncounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yalobusha County, Mississippi yalobushasheriffms.govregistered as Yalobusha County Sheriff's Department in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yazoo County, Mississippi yazoocountyms.govregistered as Yazoo County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adair County, Missouri adaircomo.govregistered as County of Adair in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Andrew County, Missouri andrewcountymo.govregistered as Andrew County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Atchison County, Missouri atchisoncountymo.govregistered as Atchison County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Audrain County, Missouri audraincounty.govregistered as County of Audrain in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barry County, Missouri barrycountymo.govregistered as Barry County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barton County, Missouri countyofbarton.govregistered as Barton County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bates County, Missouri batescountymo.govregistered as Bates County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Benton County, Missouri bentoncomo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Bollinger County, Missouri mocounties.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Boone County, Missouri boonemo.govregistered as Boone County Government, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Buchanan County, Missouri buchmo.govregistered as Buchanan County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butler County, Missouri butlercountymo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Caldwell County, Missouri caldwellcountymo.govregistered as Caldwell County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Callaway County, Missouri callawayso.govregistered as Callaway County Sheriff Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Camden County, Missouri camdencountymo.govregistered as Camden County 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