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 2,101–2,200 of 3,144 · page 22 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe County, Ohio monroecoauditoroh.govregistered as Monroe County Auditor in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Ohio montgomerycountyoh.govregistered as Montgomery County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Ohio morgancounty-oh.govregistered as Morgan County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morrow County, Ohio morrowcountyohio.govregistered as Morrow County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Muskingum County, Ohio muskingumdd.govregistered as Muskingum County Board of Developmental Disabilities in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Noble County, Ohio noblecountyohio.govregistered as Noble County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ottawa County, Ohio ottawacountyjfsoh.govregistered as Ottawa County Department of Job and Family Services in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Paulding County, Ohio pauldingcountyoh.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | Gated | 10 | |
| Perry County, Ohio perrycountyohio.govregistered as Perry County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pickaway County, Ohio pickawaycountyohio.govregistered as Pickaway County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pike County, Ohio pikecountyohcommissioners.govregistered as Pike County Ohio Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Portage County, Ohio portagecounty-oh.govregistered as Portage County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Preble County, Ohio preblecountyohio.govregistered as Preble County Ohio in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Putnam County, Ohio putnamcountyohio.govregistered as Putnam County Commissioneers in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Richland County, Ohio richlandcountyoh.govregistered as Richland County Ohio Information Technology in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ross County, Ohio rosscountyohio.govregistered as Ross County Commissioner in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sandusky County, Ohio sanduskycountyoh.govregistered as Sandusky County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Scioto County, Ohio sciotocounty.govregistered as Scioto County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Seneca County, Ohio senecaohpivot.govregistered as Seneca County PIVOT Recovery Program in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shelby County, Ohio co.shelby.oh.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stark County, Ohio starkcountyohio.govregistered as Stark County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Summit County, Ohio summitcountyoh.govregistered as County of Summit, Ohio in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trumbull County, Ohio co.trumbull.oh.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tuscarawas County, Ohio co.tuscarawas.oh.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Union County, Ohio unioncountyohio.govregistered as Union County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Van Wert County, Ohio vanwertcountyohio.govregistered as Van Wert County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Vinton County, Ohio vintonengineer.govregistered as Vinton County Engineer in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warren County, Ohio warrencountyohio.govregistered as Warren County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Ohio auditorwashingtoncountyohio.govregistered as Washington County Auditor in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Ohio waynecountyoh.govregistered as Wayne County, Ohio in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Williams County, Ohio williamscountyoh.govregistered as Williams County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wood County, Ohio woodcountyohio.govregistered as Wood County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wyandot County, Ohio co.wyandot.oh.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adair County, Oklahoma adairok911.govregistered as Adair County 911 Regional Trust Authority in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alfalfa County, Oklahoma alfalfa.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 58 | No | 28 | |
| Atoka County, Oklahoma atokacountyok.govregistered as Atoka County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Beaver County, Oklahoma beaver.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 53 | No | 26 | |
| Beckham County, Oklahoma beckhamso.govregistered as Beckham County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Blaine County, Oklahoma blainecosheriff-ok.govregistered as Blaine County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bryan County, Oklahoma bryan.okcounties.orgOklahoma county portal, reachability-verified | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Caddo County, Oklahoma caddocountyok.govregistered as Caddo County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Canadian County, Oklahoma canadiancounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | No | 25 | |
| Carter County, Oklahoma cartercountyok.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | Gated | 21 | |
| Cherokee County, Oklahoma cherokee.okcounties.orgOklahoma county portal, reachability-verified | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Choctaw County, Oklahoma hugook.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the published address pointed at a page, not the site root; the root is scanned | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Cimarron County, Oklahoma cimarroncoso.govregistered as Cimarron County Sheriff in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cleveland County, Oklahoma clevelandcountyok.govregistered as Cleveland County Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coal County, Oklahoma coalcountyok.govregistered as Coal County, Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Comanche County, Oklahoma comanchecountyok.govregistered as Comanche County Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cotton County, Oklahoma cottoncountyok.govregistered as Cotton County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Craig County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Creek County, Oklahoma creekcountysheriff.govregistered as Creek County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Custer County, Oklahoma custercountyok.govregistered as Custer County, OK in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delaware County, Oklahoma delawarecoclerkok.govregistered as Delaware County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dewey County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Ellis County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Garfield County, Oklahoma garfieldok.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | No | 15 | |
| Garvin County, Oklahoma garvincountyok.govregistered as Garvin County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grady County, Oklahoma gradycountyok.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, Oklahoma grantcountyok.govregistered as Grant County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greer County, Oklahoma greer.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 56 | No | 24 | |
| Harmon County, Oklahoma harmoncountyok.govregistered as Harmon County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harper County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Haskell County, Oklahoma oklahoma.govweb 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 | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hughes County, Oklahoma hughescosheriffok.govregistered as Hughes County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Oklahoma jacksoncountyok.govregistered as Jackson County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Oklahoma jeffersoncountyok.govregistered as JEFFERSON COUNTY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnston County, Oklahoma johnstoncountyok.govregistered as Johnston County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kay County, Oklahoma courthouse.kay.ok.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 13 | |
| Kingfisher County, Oklahoma kingfishersheriff.govregistered as Kingfisher County Sheriff's Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kiowa County, Oklahoma kiowacountyok.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Latimer County, Oklahoma latimer.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 58 | No | 29 | |
| Le Flore County, Oklahoma leflorecountyjailok.govregistered as Le Flore County Detention Center Public Trust in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Oklahoma lincolncountyok.govregistered as Lincoln County Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Logan County, Oklahoma logancountyok.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Love County, Oklahoma lovecountyok.govregistered as Love County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McClain County, Oklahoma mcclain-co-ok.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 32 | |
| McCurtain County, Oklahoma mccurtaincountyok.govregistered as McCurtain County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McIntosh County, Oklahoma mcintoshcountyok.govregistered as McIntosh County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Major County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Marshall County, Oklahoma marshall.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 54 | No | 27 | |
| Mayes County, Oklahoma mayescountyok.govregistered as Mayes County Clerk in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Murray County, Oklahoma murraycountyok.govregistered as Murray County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Muskogee County, Oklahoma muskogee.okcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 58 | No | 31 | |
| Noble County, Oklahoma noblecosook.govregistered as Noble County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nowata County, Oklahoma nowata.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Okfuskee County, Oklahoma no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Oklahoma County, Oklahoma oklahomacounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Okmulgee County, Oklahoma okmulgeecounty.govregistered as Okmulgee County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Osage County, Oklahoma osagecountyok.govregistered as Osage County Sheriffs Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ottawa County, Oklahoma ottawaok.govregistered as Ottawa County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pawnee County, Oklahoma pawneecountysook.govregistered as PAWNEE COUNTY SHERIFF in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Payne County, Oklahoma paynecountyok.govregistered as Payne County, Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pittsburg County, Oklahoma pittsburgcountyok.govregistered as Pittsburg County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pontotoc County, Oklahoma pontotoccountyok.govregistered as Pontotoc County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma pottawatomiecountyok.govregistered as Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pushmataha County, Oklahoma pushmatahacountyok.govregistered as Pushmataha County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Roger Mills County, Oklahoma rogermills.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 42 | No | 32 | |
| Rogers County, Oklahoma rogerscountysheriff.govregistered as Rogers County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Seminole County, Oklahoma seminolecountyoklahoma.govregistered as Seminole County in the .gov registry | 28 | 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