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 201–300 of 3,144 · page 3 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inyo County, California inyocoapps.govregistered as County of Inyo in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kern County, California kerncounty.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Kings County, California countyofkings.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lake County, California lakecountyca.govregistered as County of Lake in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lassen County, California lassencounty.govregistered as Lassen County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Los Angeles County, California lavote.govregistered as County of Los Angeles in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madera County, California maderacounty.govregistered as Madera County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marin County, California marincounty.govregistered as County of Marin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mariposa County, California mariposacounty.govregistered as Mariposa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mendocino County, California mendocinocounty.govregistered as Mendocino County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Merced County, California mercedcountyca.govregistered as County of Merced in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Modoc County, California countyofmodoc.govregistered as Modoc County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mono County, California monocounty.ca.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monterey County, California condadodemonterey.govregistered as County of Monterey in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Napa County, California readynapacounty.govregistered as Napa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nevada County, California nevadacountyca.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Orange County, California oc.govregistered as County of Orange in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Placer County, California placercounty.govregistered as Placer County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Plumas County, California plumascounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Riverside County, California rivcofire.govregistered as Riverside County Fire Department in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sacramento County, California saccounty.govregistered as County of Sacramento in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Benito County, California sanbenitocountyca.govregistered as County of San Benito in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Bernardino County, California sbcounty.govregistered as San Bernardino County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Diego County, California sandiegocounty.govregistered as County of San Diego in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Francisco County, California sf.govregistered as City and County of San Francisco in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Joaquin County, California sanjoaquin.govregistered as County of San Joaquin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Luis Obispo County, California slocounty.govregistered as County of San Luis Obispo in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Mateo County, California sanmateocounty.govregistered as County of San Mateo in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Barbara County, California santabarbaracounty.govregistered as County of Santa Barbara in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Clara County, California santaclaracounty.govregistered as County of Santa Clara in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Cruz County, California santacruzcountyca.govregistered as County of Santa Cruz in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shasta County, California shastacounty.govregistered as Shasta County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sierra County, California sierracounty.ca.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Siskiyou County, California readysiskiyou.govregistered as Siskiyou County Office of Emergency Services in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Solano County, California solanocounty.govregistered as Solano County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sonoma County, California sonomacounty.govregistered as County of Sonoma in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stanislaus County, California stancounty.govregistered as Stanislaus County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sutter County, California sutter.govregistered as County of Sutter in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tehama County, California tehama.govregistered as COUNTY OF TEHAMA in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Trinity County, California trinitycounty-ca.govregistered as Trinity County Behavioral Health Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tulare County, California tularecounty.ca.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tuolumne County, California tuolumnecountysheriff.govregistered as Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ventura County, California venturacounty.govregistered as County of Ventura in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yolo County, California yolocounty.govregistered as Yolo County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yuba County, California yuba.govregistered as County of Yuba in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adams County, Colorado adamscountyco.govregistered as Adams County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alamosa County, Colorado alamosacounty.govregistered as Alamosa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Arapahoe County, Colorado arapahoeco.govregistered as Arapahoe County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Archuleta County, Colorado archuletacounty.govregistered as Archuleta County, Colorado in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Baca County, Colorado bacacountyco.govregistered as Baca County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bent County, Colorado bentcounty.govregistered as Bent County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boulder County, Colorado boulderodm.govregistered as Boulder County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Broomfield County, Colorado broomfield.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 39 | No | 24 | |
| Chaffee County, Colorado chaffeecounty.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Cheyenne County, Colorado co.cheyenne.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 39 | Gated | 9 | |
| Clear Creek County, Colorado clearcreekcountyco.govregistered as Clear Creek County Govt in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Conejos County, Colorado conejoscounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Costilla County, Colorado costillacounty-co.govregistered as Costilla County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crowley County, Colorado crowleycounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Custer County, Colorado custercounty-co.govregistered as Custer County Colorado in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delta County, Colorado deltacountyco.govregistered as Delta County, Colorado in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Denver County, Colorado denvergov.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dolores County, Colorado dolorescountyco.govregistered as DOLORES COUNTY in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Douglas County, Colorado douglasco.govregistered as Douglas County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eagle County, Colorado eaglecounty.govregistered as Eagle County Governement in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elbert County, Colorado elbertcounty-co.govregistered as Elbert County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| El Paso County, Colorado elpasoco.govregistered as El Paso County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fremont County, Colorado fremontcountyco.govregistered as Fremont County, Colorado in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Garfield County, Colorado garfieldcountyco.govregistered as Garfield County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gilpin County, Colorado co.gilpin.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grand County, Colorado co.grand.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gunnison County, Colorado gunnisoncounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hinsdale County, Colorado hinsdalecountycolorado.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Huerfano County, Colorado huerfano.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Jackson County, Colorado jacksoncountyco.govregistered as Jackson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Colorado jeffcoco.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kiowa County, Colorado kiowacountyco.govregistered as Kiowa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kit Carson County, Colorado kitcarsoncounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lake County, Colorado lakecountyco.govregistered as Lake County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| La Plata County, Colorado co.laplata.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Larimer County, Colorado larimer.govregistered as Larimer County, Colorado Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Las Animas County, Colorado lasanimascounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Colorado lincolncountyco.govregistered as Lincoln County of Colorado in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Logan County, Colorado logancountyco.govregistered as Logan County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mesa County, Colorado mesacountysheriff.govregistered as Mesa County Sheriffs Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mineral County, Colorado mineralcountycolorado.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Moffat County, Colorado co.moffat.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montezuma County, Colorado montezumacounty.govregistered as Montezuma County, Colorado in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montrose County, Colorado montrosecounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Colorado co.morgan.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Otero County, Colorado oterosheriffco.govregistered as Otero County Sheriff in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ouray County, Colorado ourayco.govregistered as Ouray County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Park County, Colorado parkcountyco.govregistered as Park County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Phillips County, Colorado colorado.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 | |
| Pitkin County, Colorado aspenpitkin.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Prowers County, Colorado prowersco.govregistered as Prowers County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pueblo County, Colorado pueblocounty.govregistered as Pueblo County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rio Blanco County, Colorado rioblanco.govregistered as Rio Blanco County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Rio Grande County, Colorado riograndecounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Routt County, Colorado co.routt.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not 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