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 2,801–2,900 of 3,144 · page 29 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit County, Utah summitcountytreasurerutah.govregistered as Summit County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tooele County, Utah tooeleco.govregistered as Tooele County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Uintah County, Utah co.uintah.ut.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 40 | Gated | 1 | |
| Utah County, Utah utahcounty.govregistered as Utah County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wasatch County, Utah wasatchcounty.govregistered as Wasatch County Information Systems in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Utah washco.state.ut.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Utah waynecountyutah.govregistered as Wayne County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Weber County, Utah webercountyem.govregistered as Weber County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Addison County, Vermont addisoncounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bennington County, Vermont rpc.bennington.vt.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caledonia County, Vermont no website on recordVT counties are judicial districts only | — | No | — | |
| Chittenden County, Vermont no website on recordVT counties are judicial districts only | — | No | — | |
| Essex County, Vermont essexcountyvermont.govregistered as Essex County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Vermont no website on recordVT counties are judicial districts only | — | No | — | |
| Grand Isle County, Vermont no website on recordVT counties are judicial districts only | — | No | — | |
| Lamoille County, Vermont lcpcvt.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Orange County, Vermont orangecountyvermont.govregistered as County of Orange in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Orleans County, Vermont no website on recordVT counties are judicial districts only | — | No | — | |
| Rutland County, Vermont rutlandvermont.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Washington County, Vermont washingtoncountysheriffvt.govregistered as Washington County Sheriffs Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Windham County, Vermont windhamcountyvt.govregistered as Windham County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Windsor County, Vermont swcrpc.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Accomack County, Virginia accomack.govregistered as Accomack County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Albemarle County, Virginia albemarle.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Alleghany County, Virginia co.alleghany.va.usunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| Amelia County, Virginia ameliacova.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Amherst County, Virginia amherstcountyva.govregistered as Amherst County VA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Appomattox County, Virginia appomattoxcountyva.govregistered as Appomattox County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arlington County, Virginia arlingtonva.govregistered as Arlington County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Augusta County, Virginia augustacountyva.govregistered as County of Augusta in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bath County, Virginia bathcountyva.govregistered as County of Bath in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bedford County, Virginia bedfordcountyva.govregistered as Bedford County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bland County, Virginia blandcountyva.govregistered as Bland County, Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Botetourt County, Virginia botetourtva.govregistered as Botetourt County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brunswick County, Virginia brunswickco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 45 | No | 31 | |
| Buchanan County, Virginia buchanancounty-va.govregistered as Buchanan County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Buckingham County, Virginia buckinghamva.govregistered as County of Buckingham in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Campbell County, Virginia campbellcountyva.govregistered as County of Campbell in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Caroline County, Virginia carolinecountyva.govregistered as Caroline County, Virginia in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Virginia carrollcountyva.govregistered as Carroll County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Charles City County, Virginia co.charles-city.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Charlotte County, Virginia charlottecountyva.govregistered as Charlotte County Administrator in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chesterfield County, Virginia chesterfieldcounty.govregistered as Chesterfield County, VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarke County, Virginia clarkecounty.govregistered as Clarke County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Craig County, Virginia craigcountyva.govregistered as The County of Craig in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Culpeper County, Virginia culpepercounty.govregistered as County of Culpeper in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cumberland County, Virginia cumberlandcounty.virginia.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dickenson County, Virginia dickensonva.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dinwiddie County, Virginia dinwiddieva.govregistered as Dinwiddie County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Essex County, Virginia essexva.govregistered as County of Essex in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fairfax County, Virginia capitalert.govregistered as Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fauquier County, Virginia fauquiercounty.govregistered as Fauquier County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Floyd County, Virginia floydcova.govregistered as Floyd County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fluvanna County, Virginia fluvanna.govregistered as County of Fluvanna in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Virginia franklincountyva.govregistered as Franklin County VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Frederick County, Virginia frederickcountyva.govregistered as County of Frederick in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Giles County, Virginia gilescounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gloucester County, Virginia gloucesterva.govregistered as Gloucester County, VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Goochland County, Virginia co.goochland.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grayson County, Virginia graysoncountyva.govregistered as Grayson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Virginia greenecountyva.govregistered as County of Greene in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greensville County, Virginia greensvillecountyva.govregistered as County of Greensville in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Halifax County, Virginia halifaxcountyva.govregistered as Halifax County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hanover County, Virginia hanover.govregistered as Hanover County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henrico County, Virginia henrico.govregistered as Henrico County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Henry County, Virginia henrycountyva.govregistered as County of Henry in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Highland County, Virginia highlandcova.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Isle of Wight County, Virginia isleofwight.govregistered as Isle of Wight County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| James City County, Virginia jamescitycountyva.govregistered as James City County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| King and Queen County, Virginia kingandqueenco.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 64 | No | 32 | |
| King George County, Virginia kinggeorgecountyva.govregistered as King George County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| King William County, Virginia kwc.govregistered as King William County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lancaster County, Virginia lancova.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Lee County, Virginia leecova.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Loudoun County, Virginia loudoun.govregistered as Loudoun County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Louisa County, Virginia louisacounty.govregistered as County of Louisa, VA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lunenburg County, Virginia lunenburgva.govregistered as Lunenburg County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Virginia madisonco.virginia.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mathews County, Virginia mathewscountyva.govregistered as County of Mathews in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mecklenburg County, Virginia mecklenburgva.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Middlesex County, Virginia co.middlesex.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Virginia montgomerycountyva.govregistered as Montgomery County, Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nelson County, Virginia nelsoncounty-va.govregistered as Nelson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| New Kent County, Virginia newkent.govregistered as New Kent County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Northampton County, Virginia co.northampton.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | No | 32 | |
| Northumberland County, Virginia co.northumberland.va.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 429 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Nottoway County, Virginia nottoway.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Orange County, Virginia orangecountyva.govregistered as Orange County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Page County, Virginia co.page.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Patrick County, Virginia co.patrick.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pittsylvania County, Virginia pittsylvaniacountyva.govregistered as Pittsylvania County Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Powhatan County, Virginia powhatanva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prince Edward County, Virginia co.prince-edward.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 45 | Gated | 32 | |
| Prince George County, Virginia pgcountyva.govregistered as Prince George County, VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prince William County, Virginia princewilliamva.govregistered as Prince William County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pulaski County, Virginia pulaskicountyva.govregistered as County of Pulaski in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rappahannock County, Virginia rappahannockcountyva.govregistered as County of Rappahannock, Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Richmond County, Virginia co.richmond.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 68 | No | 1 | |
| Roanoke County, Virginia roanokecountyva.govregistered as Roanoke County IT in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rockbridge County, Virginia rbsova.govregistered as Rockbridge County 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