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 2,601–2,700 of 3,144 · page 27 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher County, Texas fishercounty.govregistered as Fisher County Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Floyd County, Texas co.floyd.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Foard County, Texas foardcounty.texas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fort Bend County, Texas fbctx.govregistered as Fort Bend County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Texas franklincountytx.govregistered as Franklin County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Freestone County, Texas co.freestone.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Frio County, Texas co.frio.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 36 | No | 32 | |
| Gaines County, Texas co.gaines.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Galveston County, Texas galvestoncountytx.govregistered as County of Galveston in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Garza County, Texas garzacounty.govregistered as Garza County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gillespie County, Texas gillespiecounty.govregistered as Gillespie County, Texas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Glasscock County, Texas co.glasscock.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | No | 31 | |
| Goliad County, Texas goliadcountytx.govregistered as Goliad County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gonzales County, Texas co.gonzales.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Gray County, Texas co.gray.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Grayson County, Texas co.grayson.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gregg County, Texas greggcountyvotes.govregistered as Gregg County Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grimes County, Texas grimescountytexas.govregistered as Grimes County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Guadalupe County, Texas guadalupetx.govregistered as Guadalupe County, Texas in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hale County, Texas halecojpdtx.govregistered as Hale County Juvenile Probation in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hall County, Texas co.hall.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Hamilton County, Texas hamiltoncountytx.govregistered as Hamilton County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hansford County, Texas co.hansford.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 46 | No | 26 | |
| Hardeman County, Texas co.hardeman.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Hardin County, Texas hardincountytx.govregistered as Hardin County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harris County, Texas harriscountytx.govregistered as Harris County Information Technology Center in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harrison County, Texas harrisoncountytexas.govregistered as Harrison County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hartley County, Texas hartleycountytx.govregistered as Hartley County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Haskell County, Texas haskellcountytx.govregistered as Haskell County, Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hays County, Texas hayscountytx.govregistered as Hays County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hemphill County, Texas co.hemphill.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Henderson County, Texas henderson-county.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hidalgo County, Texas hidalgocounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hill County, Texas hilloemtx.govregistered as Hill County Office of Emergency Management in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hockley County, Texas co.hockley.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Hood County, Texas hoodcounty.texas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hopkins County, Texas hopkinscountytx.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Houston County, Texas co.houston.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Howard County, Texas howardcountytx.govregistered as Howard County Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hudspeth County, Texas co.hudspeth.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | No | 32 | |
| Hunt County, Texas huntcounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Hutchinson County, Texas co.hutchinson.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Irion County, Texas co.irion.tx.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 429 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Jack County, Texas jackcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | No | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Texas co.jackson.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 32 | |
| Jasper County, Texas co.jasper.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 31 | |
| Jeff Davis County, Texas jeffdaviscounty.texas.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Texas jeffersoncountytx.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jim Hogg County, Texas co.jim-hogg.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Jim Wells County, Texas jimwellscounty-tx.govregistered as Jim Wells County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Texas johnsoncountytx.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Jones County, Texas co.jones.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Karnes County, Texas karnescounty.govregistered as Karnes County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kaufman County, Texas kaufmancounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kendall County, Texas kendallcountytx.govregistered as Kendall County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kenedy County, Texas kenedycountytx.govregistered as Kenedy County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kent County, Texas kentcountytx.govregistered as Kent County, Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kerr County, Texas kerrcountytx.govregistered as Kerr County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kimble County, Texas co.kimble.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 32 | |
| King County, Texas co.king.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Kinney County, Texas co.kinney.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 30 | |
| Kleberg County, Texas co.kleberg.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Knox County, Texas knoxcountytexas.govregistered as Knox County Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lamar County, Texas lamarcountytx.govregistered as Lamar County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lamb County, Texas co.lamb.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | Gated | 31 | |
| Lampasas County, Texas lampasascounty.govregistered as Lampasas County, Texas in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| La Salle County, Texas co.la-salle.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Lavaca County, Texas co.lavaca.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 37 | No | 32 | |
| Lee County, Texas leecountytx.govregistered as Lee County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leon County, Texas co.leon.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Liberty County, Texas libertycountytx.govregistered as Liberty County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Limestone County, Texas limestonetx.govregistered as Limestone County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lipscomb County, Texas co.lipscomb.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Live Oak County, Texas co.live-oak.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Llano County, Texas llanocounty.govregistered as Llano County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Loving County, Texas co.loving.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 41 | No | 24 | |
| Lubbock County, Texas lubbockcounty.govregistered as Lubbock County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lynn County, Texas co.lynn.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | No | 30 | |
| McCulloch County, Texas co.mcculloch.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| McLennan County, Texas mclennan.govregistered as McLennan County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McMullen County, Texas mcmullencounty.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Madison County, Texas co.madison.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Marion County, Texas marioncountytx.govregistered as Marion County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Martin County, Texas co.martin.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mason County, Texas co.mason.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Matagorda County, Texas matagordatx.govregistered as Matagorda County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Maverick County, Texas co.maverick.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 72 | No | 28 | |
| Medina County, Texas medinatx.govregistered as Medina County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Menard County, Texas co.menard.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | No | 1 | |
| Midland County, Texas votemidlandtx.govregistered as Midland County Elections Office in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Milam County, Texas milamcounty.govregistered as Milam County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mills County, Texas millscountytx.govregistered as Mills County, TX in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mitchell County, Texas co.mitchell.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | No | 22 | |
| Montague County, Texas co.montague.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 46 | No | 31 | |
| Montgomery County, Texas mctx.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moore County, Texas mooretx.govregistered as Moore County Courthouse in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morris County, Texas co.morris.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | No | 1 | |
| Motley County, Texas co.motley.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Nacogdoches County, Texas nacogdochesco.govregistered as Nacogdoches County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Navarro County, Texas co.navarro.tx.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 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