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 1,501–1,600 of 3,144 · page 16 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Girardeau County, Missouri capecounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Carroll County, Missouri carrollcountymo.govregistered as County of Carroll in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carter County, Missouri cartercountymo.govregistered as Carter County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cass County, Missouri casscounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Cedar County, Missouri cedarcountymo.govregistered as Cedar County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chariton County, Missouri charitonco.govregistered as Chariton County Missouri in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Christian County, Missouri christiancountymo.govregistered as Christian County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clark County, Missouri clarkcountymo.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Clay County, Missouri claycountymo.govregistered as Clay County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clinton County, Missouri clintoncomo.govregistered as Clinton County, MO in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cole County, Missouri colecountymo.govregistered as Cole County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cooper County, Missouri coopercohealth.govregistered as Cooper County Public Health Center in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crawford County, Missouri crawfordmo.govregistered as Crawford County Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dade County, Missouri dadecountymo911.govregistered as Dade County Emergency Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dallas County, Missouri dallascountymo-oem.govregistered as Dallas County Emergency Management in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Daviess County, Missouri daviesscountymo.govregistered as Daviess County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeKalb County, Missouri dekalbcountymo.govregistered as Dekalb County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dent County, Missouri salemmo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 36 | Gated | 1 | |
| Douglas 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 | |
| Dunklin County, Missouri dunklincounty.govregistered as Dunklin County Commission in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Missouri franklinmo.govregistered as Franklin County, MO in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gasconade County, Missouri gasconadecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 62 | No | 9 | |
| Gentry County, Missouri gentrycountymo.govregistered as GENTRY COUNTY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Missouri greenecountymo.govregistered as Greene County, MO in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grundy County, Missouri grundycountymo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | Gated | 24 | |
| Harrison County, Missouri harrisoncountymo.govregistered as Harrison County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henry County, Missouri henrymosheriff.govregistered as Henry County Missouri Sheriff Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hickory County, Missouri hickorycountymo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Holt County, Missouri holtcountymo.govregistered as COUNTY OF HOLT in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Howard County, Missouri howardcounty-mo.govregistered as County of Howard, MO in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Howell County, Missouri howellcountymo911.govregistered as Howell County 911 Emergency Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iron County, Missouri ironcountymo.govregistered as Iron County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Missouri jacksongov.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jasper County, Missouri jaspercountymo.govregistered as Jasper County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Missouri jeffcomo.govregistered as Jefferson County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Missouri jocomo.govregistered as County of Johnson in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Knox County, Missouri knoxcountymo.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 10 | |
| Laclede County, Missouri lacledecountymissouri.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 72 | No | 8 | |
| Lafayette County, Missouri lafayettecountymo.govregistered as Lafayette County, MO in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, Missouri lawrencecountymo.govregistered as Lawrence County Missouri in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lewis County, Missouri lewiscountymo.govregistered as Lewis County Missouri in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Missouri lincolncomo.govregistered as Lincoln County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Linn County, Missouri linncosomo.govregistered as Linn County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Livingston County, Missouri livingstoncountymo.govregistered as Livingston County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McDonald County, Missouri mcdonaldcountymissouri.govregistered as County of McDonald in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Macon County, Missouri maconcountymo.govregistered as Macon County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Missouri madisoncountymo.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 7 | |
| Maries County, Missouri mariescountymo.govregistered as Maries County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Missouri marioncounty-mo.govregistered as Marion County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mercer County, Missouri mercercountysheriffmo.govregistered as Mercer County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miller County, Missouri millercountymo.govregistered as Miller County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mississippi County, Missouri misscomo.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Moniteau County, Missouri moniteaucountymo.govregistered as Moniteau County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Missouri monroecountymo.govregistered as County of Monroe in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Missouri montcomo911.govregistered as Montgomery County Joint Communications Center in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Missouri morgancountymo.govregistered as Morgan County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| New Madrid County, Missouri newmadridcountymo.govregistered as New Madrid County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Newton County, Missouri newtoncountymo.govregistered as Newton County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nodaway County, Missouri nodawaycountymo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 39 | Gated | 12 | |
| Oregon County, Missouri no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Osage County, Missouri osagecountymo.govregistered as Osage County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ozark County, Missouri ozarkcounty.govregistered as Ozark County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pemiscot County, Missouri pemiscotcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 29 | |
| Perry County, Missouri perrycountymo.govregistered as County of Perry, MO in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pettis County, Missouri pettiscomo.govregistered as County of Pettis in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Phelps County, Missouri phelpscounty.orgunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| Pike County, Missouri pikecounty-mo.govregistered as Pike County Missouri in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Platte County, Missouri plattecountymo.govregistered as Platte County, Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Polk County, Missouri polkcountymo.govregistered as Polk County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pulaski County, Missouri pulaskicountymo.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Putnam County, Missouri putnamcountymo.govregistered as Putnam County Assessor in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ralls County, Missouri rallscountymo.govregistered as County of Ralls, MO in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Randolph County, Missouri randolphcounty-mo.govregistered as Randolph County Missouri in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ray County, Missouri raycountymo.govregistered as Ray County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Reynolds County, Missouri reynoldscounty-mo.govregistered as Reynolds County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ripley County, Missouri ripleycountymo.govregistered as Ripley County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Charles County, Missouri stcharlescounty.govregistered as St. Charles County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Clair County, Missouri stclaircomo.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri stegencounty.govregistered as Ste. Genevieve County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Francois County, Missouri stfrancoiscounty.govregistered as St. Francois County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Louis County, Missouri stlouiscountymo.govregistered as St. Louis County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saline County, Missouri salinecountymo.govregistered as County of Saline in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Schuyler County, Missouri schuylercountymo.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 17 | Gated | 1 | |
| Scotland County, Missouri scotlandcountymo.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 73 | No | 12 | |
| Scott County, Missouri scottcountymo.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 38 | Gated | 32 | |
| Shannon County, Missouri shannoncounty.govregistered as Shannon County Missouri in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shelby County, Missouri shelbycountymo.govregistered as Shelby County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stoddard County, Missouri stoddardcountymo.govregistered as Stoddard County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stone County, Missouri stonecountymo.govregistered as Stone County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sullivan County, Missouri sullivansomo.govregistered as Sullivan County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taney County, Missouri taneycountymo.govregistered as Taney County Courthouse in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Texas County, Missouri texascountymissouri.govregistered as Texas County Missouri in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vernon County, Missouri vernoncountymo.govregistered as Vernon County Courthouse in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warren County, Missouri warrencomosheriff.govregistered as Warren County Sheriff's Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Missouri washcoclerkmo.govregistered as Washington County Clerk's Office in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Missouri waynecountymo.govregistered as Wayne County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Webster County, Missouri webstercountymo.govregistered as Webster County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Worth County, Missouri worthcounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 39 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wright County, Missouri wrightcountymo.govregistered as Wright County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Louis city, Missouri greaterstlinc.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 43 | Gated | 32 |
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