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 2,401–2,500 of 3,144 · page 25 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones County, South Dakota no website on recordNo website per the SD Association of County Officials directory (sdcounties.org/counties) | — | No | — | |
| Kingsbury County, South Dakota kingsbury.sdcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lake County, South Dakota lakecountysd.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, South Dakota lawrencecountysd.govregistered as Lawrence County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, South Dakota lincolncountysd.govregistered as Lincoln County, SD in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lyman County, South Dakota lymancounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McCook County, South Dakota mccookcountysd.govregistered as McCook County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McPherson County, South Dakota mcpherson.sdcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, South Dakota marshall.sdcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Meade County, South Dakota meadecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Mellette County, South Dakota mellettecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miner County, South Dakota minercountysd.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Minnehaha County, South Dakota minnehahacounty.govregistered as Minnehaha County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moody County, South Dakota moodycounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | No | 32 | |
| Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota oglalalakotacountysd.govregistered as Oglala Lakota County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pennington County, South Dakota penncosd.govregistered as Pennington County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Perkins County, South Dakota perkinscounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Potter County, South Dakota no website on recordNo website per the SD Association of County Officials directory (sdcounties.org/counties) | — | No | — | |
| Roberts County, South Dakota robertscosd.govregistered as ROBERTS COUNTY in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sanborn County, South Dakota sanborncounty.govregistered as Sanborn County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Spink County, South Dakota spinkcounty-sd.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | No | 1 | |
| Stanley County, South Dakota stanleycountysd.govregistered as Stanley County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sully County, South Dakota sullycounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Todd County, South Dakota no website on recordNo website per the SD Association of County Officials directory (sdcounties.org/counties) | — | No | — | |
| Tripp County, South Dakota trippcounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | Gated | 29 | |
| Turner County, South Dakota turner.sdcounties.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; the site is hosted on a third party's domain | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Union County, South Dakota unioncountysd.govregistered as Union County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Walworth County, South Dakota walworthco.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Yankton County, South Dakota co.yankton.sd.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Ziebach County, South Dakota ziebachcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 13 | |
| Anderson County, Tennessee andersoncountytn.govregistered as Anderson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bedford County, Tennessee bedfordcountytn.govregistered as Bedford County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Benton County, Tennessee bentoncountytn.govregistered as Benton County, Tennessee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bledsoe County, Tennessee bledsoetn.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Blount County, Tennessee blounttn.govregistered as Blount County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bradley County, Tennessee bradleycountytn.govregistered as Bradley County, Tennessee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Campbell County, Tennessee campbellcountytn.govregistered as Campbell County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cannon County, Tennessee cannoncountytn.govregistered as Cannon County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Tennessee carrollcountytn.govregistered as Carroll County Mayor's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carter County, Tennessee cartercountytn.govregistered as County of Carter in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cheatham County, Tennessee cheathamcountytn.govregistered as Cheatham County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chester County, Tennessee votechestercountytn.govregistered as Chester County Election Commission in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Claiborne County, Tennessee claibornecountytn.govregistered as Claiborne County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Tennessee claycountytn.govregistered as Clay County Government Executive Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cocke County, Tennessee cockecountytn.govregistered as Cocke County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coffee County, Tennessee coffeecountytn.govregistered as Coffee County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crockett County, Tennessee no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Cumberland County, Tennessee cumberlandcountytn.govregistered as Cumberland County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Davidson County, Tennessee nashville.govMetropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County (.gov registry) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Decatur County, Tennessee decaturcountytn.govregistered as Decatur County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeKalb County, Tennessee dekalbtennessee.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dickson County, Tennessee dicksoncountytn.govregistered as Dickson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dyer County, Tennessee dyercounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Fayette County, Tennessee fayettecountytn.govregistered as Fayette County Tennessee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fentress County, Tennessee fentresscountytn.govregistered as Fentress County Emergency Management Agency in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Tennessee franklincotn.govregistered as Franklin County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gibson County, Tennessee gibsoncounty-tn.govregistered as Gibson County 911 in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Giles County, Tennessee gilescountytn.govregistered as Giles County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grainger County, Tennessee graingercountytn.govregistered as Grainger County Sherriff Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Tennessee greenecountytn.govregistered as Greene County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grundy County, Tennessee grundysherifftn.govregistered as Grundy County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamblen County, Tennessee hamblentn.govregistered as Hamblen County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamilton County, Tennessee hamiltontn.govregistered as Hamilton County I.T. in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, Tennessee hancockctnso.govregistered as Hancock County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hardeman County, Tennessee hardemancounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 27 | |
| Hardin County, Tennessee hardincogov.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 22 | |
| Hawkins County, Tennessee hawkinscountytn.govregistered as Hawkins County TN in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Haywood County, Tennessee haywoodtn.govregistered as Haywood County Tennessee in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henderson County, Tennessee hendersoncountytn.govregistered as Henderson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henry County, Tennessee henrycountytn.govregistered as Henry County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hickman County, Tennessee hickmancountytn.govregistered as Hickman County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Houston County, Tennessee houstoncountytn.govregistered as Houston County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Humphreys County, Tennessee humphreyscountytn.govregistered as Humphreys County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Tennessee jacksoncountytn.govregistered as Jackson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Tennessee jeffersoncountytn.govregistered as Jefferson County, Tennessee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Tennessee johnsoncountytn.govregistered as Johnson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Knox County, Tennessee knoxcountytn.govregistered as Knox County Tennessee Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lake County, Tennessee lakecountytn.govregistered as Lake County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lauderdale County, Tennessee lauderdaletn.govregistered as Lauderdale County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lawrence County, Tennessee lawrencecountytn.govregistered as Lawrence County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lewis County, Tennessee lewiscountytn.govregistered as Lewis County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Tennessee lincolncountytn.govregistered as Lincoln County, TN in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Loudon County, Tennessee loudoncounty-tn.govregistered as Loudon County, Tennessee Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McMinn County, Tennessee mcminncountytn.govregistered as McMinn County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McNairy County, Tennessee mcnairycountytn.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Macon County, Tennessee maconcountytn.govregistered as Macon County Mayor's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Tennessee madisoncountytn.govregistered as Madison County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Tennessee marioncountytn.govregistered as Marion County Mayor's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, Tennessee marshallcountytn.govregistered as Marshall County Tennessee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Maury County, Tennessee maurycounty-tn.govregistered as Maury County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Meigs County, Tennessee meigstn.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 31 | Gated | 2 | |
| Monroe County, Tennessee monroetn.govregistered as Monroe County Goevernment in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Tennessee montgomerytn.govregistered as Montgomery County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moore County, Tennessee metromoorecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 29 | |
| Morgan County, Tennessee morgancountytn.govregistered as Morgan County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Obion County, Tennessee obioncountytn.govregistered as Obion County Mayor in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Overton County, Tennessee overtoncountytn.govregistered as Overton County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Perry County, Tennessee perrycountytn.govregistered as Perry County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pickett County, Tennessee no website on recordno website found in the .gov registry or in Wikidata; unresolved and needs a manual pass | — | No | — | |
| Polk County, Tennessee polkcountytn.govregistered as Polk County Government 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