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 1,801–1,900 of 3,144 · page 19 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cibola County, New Mexico cibolacounty.govregistered as Cibola County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colfax County, New Mexico co.colfax.nm.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Curry County, New Mexico currycountynm.govregistered as Curry County, NM in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| De Baca County, New Mexico debaca.nmgenweb.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 62 | No | 1 | |
| DoÐa Ana County, New Mexico donaana.govregistered as Doña Ana County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eddy County, New Mexico eddycountynm.govregistered as Eddy County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, New Mexico grantcountynm.govregistered as Grant County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Guadalupe County, New Mexico guadalupecountynm.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 28 | |
| Harding County, New Mexico hardingcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 46 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hidalgo County, New Mexico hidalgocounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lea County, New Mexico leacounty.govregistered as County of Lea, New Mexico in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, New Mexico lincolncountynm.govregistered as Lincoln County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Alamos County, New Mexico losalamosnm.govregistered as Los Alamos County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Luna County, New Mexico lunacountynm.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McKinley County, New Mexico co.mckinley.nm.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mora County, New Mexico moracounty.govregistered as Mora County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Otero County, New Mexico co.otero.nm.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Quay County, New Mexico quaycounty-nm.govregistered as Quay County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rio Arriba County, New Mexico rio-arriba.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Roosevelt County, New Mexico rooseveltcounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Sandoval County, New Mexico sandovalcountynm.govregistered as Sandoval County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Juan County, New Mexico sjcounty.netblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| San Miguel County, New Mexico smcounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Fe County, New Mexico santafecountynm.govregistered as Santa Fe County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sierra County, New Mexico sierracountynm.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Socorro County, New Mexico socorrocounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taos County, New Mexico taoscountynm.govregistered as Taos County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Torrance County, New Mexico torrancecountynm.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Union County, New Mexico unionnm.usunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | — | No | — | |
| Valencia County, New Mexico valencianm.govregistered as Valencia County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Albany County, New York albanycountyny.govregistered as Albany County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Allegany County, New York alleganyco.govregistered as Allegany County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bronx County, New York nyc.govCity of New York (Bronx County = borough); a New York City borough; the government is the City of New York | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Broome County, New York broomecountyda.govregistered as Broome County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cattaraugus County, New York cattco.govregistered as Cattaraugus County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cayuga County, New York cayugacounty.govregistered as County of Cayuga in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chautauqua County, New York chautauquacountyny.govregistered as Chautauqua County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chemung County, New York chemungcountyny.govregistered as Chemung County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chenango County, New York chenangocountyny.govregistered as Chenango County NY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clinton County, New York clintoncountyny.govregistered as County of Clinton in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia County, New York columbiacountyny.govregistered as Columbia County MIS Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cortland County, New York cortlandcountyny.govregistered as Cortland County IT in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delaware County, New York delawarecountysheriffny.govregistered as Delaware County Sheriff’s Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dutchess County, New York co.dutchess.ny.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Erie County, New York erie.govregistered as County of Erie, New York in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Essex County, New York essexcountyny.govregistered as Essex County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, New York franklincountyny.govregistered as County of Franklin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fulton County, New York fultoncountyny.govregistered as County of Fulton in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Genesee County, New York geneseeny.govregistered as Genesee County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, New York greenecountyny.govregistered as Greene County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamilton County, New York hamiltoncountyny.govregistered as Hamilton County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Herkimer County, New York herkimercountyny.govregistered as Herkimer County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, New York jeffersoncountyny.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kings County, New York nyc.govCity of New York (Kings County = Brooklyn); a New York City borough; the government is the City of New York | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lewis County, New York lewiscountyny.govregistered as Lewis County, NY in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Livingston County, New York livingstoncountyny.govregistered as Livingston County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, New York madisoncounty.ny.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, New York monroecounty.govregistered as Monroe County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, New York montgomerycountyny.govregistered as Montgomery County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nassau County, New York nassaucountyny.govregistered as Nassau County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| New York County, New York nyc.govCity of New York (New York County = Manhattan); a New York City borough; the government is the City of New York | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Niagara County, New York niagaracounty.govregistered as Niagara County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oneida County, New York oneidacountyny.govregistered as Oneida County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Onondaga County, New York onondaga.govregistered as Onondaga County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ontario County, New York ontariocountyny.govregistered as Ontario County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Orange County, New York orangecountyny.govregistered as Orange County (NY) in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Orleans County, New York orleanscountyny.govregistered as Orleans County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oswego County, New York oswegocountyny.govregistered as Oswego County Central Services in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Otsego County, New York otsegocountyny.govregistered as County of Otsego in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Putnam County, New York putnamcountyny.govregistered as Putnam County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Queens County, New York nyc.govCity of New York (Queens County); a New York City borough; the government is the City of New York | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rensselaer County, New York renscony.govregistered as Rensselaer County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Richmond County, New York nyc.govCity of New York (Richmond County = Staten Island); a New York City borough; the government is the City of New York | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rockland County, New York rocklandcountyny.govregistered as County of Rockland in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Lawrence County, New York stlawco.govregistered as St. Lawrence County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saratoga County, New York saratogacountyny.govregistered as County of Saratoga in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Schenectady County, New York schenectadycountyny.govregistered as Schenectady County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Schoharie County, New York schohariecounty-ny.govregistered as Schoharie County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Schuyler County, New York schuylercountyny.govregistered as Schuyler County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Seneca County, New York senecacountyny.govregistered as Seneca County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Steuben County, New York steubencountyny.govregistered as Steuben County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Suffolk County, New York suffolkcountyny.govregistered as Suffolk County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sullivan County, New York sullivanny.govregistered as County of Sullivan in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tioga County, New York tiogacountyny.govregistered as Tioga County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tompkins County, New York tompkinscountyny.govregistered as Tompkins County Information Technology Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ulster County, New York ulstercountyny.govregistered as County of Ulster in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warren County, New York warrencountyny.govregistered as Warren County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, New York washingtoncountyny.govregistered as Washington County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, New York waynecountyny.govregistered as Wayne County NY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Westchester County, New York westchestercountyny.govregistered as County of Westchester in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wyoming County, New York wyomingcountyny.govregistered as Wyoming County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yates County, New York yatescountyny.govregistered as Yates County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alamance County, North Carolina alamancecountync.govregistered as Alamance County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alexander County, North Carolina alexandercountync.govregistered as Alexander County NC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alleghany County, North Carolina alleghanycounty-nc.govregistered as Alleghany County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Anson County, North Carolina ansoncountync.govregistered as County of Anson in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ashe County, North Carolina ashenc.govregistered as County of Ashe in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Avery County, North Carolina averycountync.govregistered as County of Avery in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Beaufort County, North Carolina beaufortcountync.govregistered as Beaufort County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bertie County, North Carolina co.bertie.nc.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not 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