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 101–200 of 3,144 · page 2 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila County, Arizona gilacountyaz.govregistered as Gila County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Graham County, Arizona graham.az.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greenlee County, Arizona greenlee.az.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| La Paz County, Arizona lapaz.govregistered as La Paz County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Maricopa County, Arizona maricopa.govregistered as Maricopa County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mohave County, Arizona mohave.govregistered as Mohave County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Navajo County, Arizona navajocountyaz.govregistered as Navajo County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pima County, Arizona pima.govregistered as Pima County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pinal County, Arizona pinal.govregistered as Pinal County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Cruz County, Arizona santacruzcountyaz.govregistered as Santa Cruz County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yavapai County, Arizona ycsoaz.govregistered as Yavapai County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yuma County, Arizona yumacountyaz.govregistered as Yuma County Arizona in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arkansas County, Arkansas arkansascountyar.govregistered as Arkansas County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ashley County, Arkansas ashleycounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Baxter County, Arkansas baxtercountyar.govregistered as Baxter County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Benton County, Arkansas bentoncountyar.govregistered as Benton County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boone County, Arkansas boonecountycollectorar.govregistered as Boone County Collector in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bradley County, Arkansas bradleycountyarkansas.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 29 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calhoun County, Arkansas calhouncountyar.govregistered as CALHOUN COUNTY in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Arkansas carrollcountysheriffar.govregistered as Carroll County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chicot County, Arkansas chicotcountyar.govregistered as Chicot County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clark County, Arkansas clarkcountyar.govregistered as Clark County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Arkansas claycountyarkansas.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 23 | |
| Cleburne County, Arkansas cleburnecoar.govregistered as Cleburne County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cleveland County, Arkansas clevelandcounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia County, Arkansas columbiacircuitclerkar.govregistered as Columbia County Circuit Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Conway County, Arkansas conwaycounty.govregistered as Conway County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Craighead County, Arkansas craigheadcountyar.govregistered as Craighead County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crawford County, Arkansas crawfordcountyar.govregistered as Crawford County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crittenden County, Arkansas crittcircuitclerkar.govregistered as Crittenden County Circuit Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cross County, Arkansas crosscountyar.govregistered as Cross County Judge's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dallas County, Arkansas dallascosoar.govregistered as Dallas County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Desha County, Arkansas deshacounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Drew County, Arkansas drewcountyar.govregistered as Drew County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Faulkner County, Arkansas faulknercountyar.govregistered as Faulkner County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Arkansas franklincosoar.govregistered as Franklin County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fulton County, Arkansas fultoncountyar.govregistered as Fulton County Judge's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Garland County, Arkansas garlandcountyar.govregistered as Garland County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, Arkansas grantcountyar.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 34 | Gated | 32 | |
| Greene County, Arkansas greenecountycollectorar.govregistered as Greene County Arkansas Tax Collector in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hempstead County, Arkansas hempsteadcounty.govregistered as Hempstead County, Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hot Spring County, Arkansas hotspringcountysoar.govregistered as Hot Spring County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Howard County, Arkansas howardcircuitclerkar.govregistered as Howard County Circuit Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Independence County, Arkansas independencecircuitclerkar.govregistered as Independence County Circuit Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Izard County, Arkansas izardcountyar.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 42 | Gated | 32 | |
| Jackson County, Arkansas jacksoncountyar.govregistered as Jackson County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Arkansas jeffersoncountyar.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Arkansas johnsoncounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lafayette County, Arkansas lafayettecounty.arkansas.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 | |
| Lawrence County, Arkansas lawrencecountyarkansas.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Lee County, Arkansas leecountyar.govregistered as Lee County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Arkansas lincolncountyar.govregistered as Lincoln County, Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Little River County, Arkansas littlerivercounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Logan County, Arkansas logancountyclerkar.govregistered as Logan County Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lonoke County, Arkansas lonokear.govregistered as Lonoke County Judge in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Arkansas madisoncountyar.govregistered as County of Madison in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Arkansas marioncountyar.govregistered as Marion County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miller County, Arkansas millercountyar.govregistered as Miller County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mississippi County, Arkansas misscoarsheriff.govregistered as Mississippi County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Arkansas monroecountyassessorar.govregistered as Monroe County Assessor in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Arkansas montgomerycountyar.govregistered as Montgomery County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nevada County, Arkansas nevadacoar.govregistered as Nevada County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Newton County, Arkansas newtoncountysheriffar.govregistered as Newton County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ouachita County, Arkansas no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Perry County, Arkansas perrycoar.govregistered as Perry County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Phillips County, Arkansas phillipscounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pike County, Arkansas pikecountyar.govregistered as Pike County, AR in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Poinsett County, Arkansas poinsettar.govregistered as Poinsett County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Polk County, Arkansas polkcountyar.govregistered as Polk County, Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pope County, Arkansas popecountyar.govregistered as Pope County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prairie County, Arkansas prairiecountyar.govregistered as Prairie County, Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pulaski County, Arkansas pulaskisoar.govregistered as Pulaski County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Randolph County, Arkansas randolphar.govregistered as County of Randolph in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Francis County, Arkansas stfranciscountyar.govregistered as St Francis County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Saline County, Arkansas salinecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Scott County, Arkansas scottcountyar.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Searcy County, Arkansas no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Sebastian County, Arkansas sebastiancountyar.govregistered as Sebastian County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sevier County, Arkansas seviercountyar.govregistered as Sevier County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sharp County, Arkansas sharpcounty.arkansas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stone County, Arkansas stonecountyar.govregistered as Stone County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Union County, Arkansas unioncountyar.govregistered as County of Union in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Van Buren County, Arkansas vanburencountyar.govregistered as Van Buren County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Arkansas washingtoncountyar.govregistered as Washington County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| White County, Arkansas whitecountycollectorar.govregistered as White County Arkansas Tax Collector in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Woodruff County, Arkansas woodruffcountyar.govregistered as Woodruff County Arkansas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yell County, Arkansas yellcountyar.govregistered as Yell County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alameda County, California alamedacountyca.govregistered as Alameda County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alpine County, California alpinecountyca.govregistered as County of Alpine in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Amador County, California amadorcounty.govregistered as AMADOR COUNTY in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butte County, California buttesheriffca.govregistered as Butte County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calaveras County, California calaverascounty.govregistered as Calaveras County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colusa County, California countyofcolusaca.govregistered as Colusa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Contra Costa County, California contracostahealth.govregistered as Contra Costa County Health Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Del Norte County, California delnortecounty.govregistered as County of Del Norte in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| El Dorado County, California eldoradoda.govregistered as El Dorado County District Attorney's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fresno County, California fresnocountyca.govregistered as County of Fresno in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Glenn County, California countyofglenn.netblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Humboldt County, California humalertca.govregistered as County of Humboldt in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Imperial County, California imperialcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 66 | No | 31 |
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