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 2,901–3,000 of 3,144 · page 30 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockingham County, Virginia rockinghamcountyva.govregistered as County of Rockingham in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Russell County, Virginia russellcountyva.govregistered as Russell County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Scott County, Virginia scottcountyva.govregistered as Scott County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shenandoah County, Virginia shenandoahcountyva.govregistered as County of Shenandoah in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Smyth County, Virginia smythcounty.govregistered as Smyth County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Southampton County, Virginia southamptoncounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Spotsylvania County, Virginia spotsy.govregistered as Spotsylvania County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stafford County, Virginia staffordcountyva.govregistered as County of Stafford, Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Surry County, Virginia surrycountyva.govregistered as Surry County administration in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sussex County, Virginia sussexcountyva.govregistered as Sussex County, Virginia in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tazewell County, Virginia tazewellcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Warren County, Virginia warrencountyva.govregistered as Warren County VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Virginia washcova.govregistered as Washington County Virginia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Westmoreland County, Virginia westmorelandva.govregistered as Westmoreland County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wise County, Virginia wisecountyva.govregistered as Wise County Virginia Local Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wythe County, Virginia wytheco.orgunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| York County, Virginia yorkcounty.govregistered as County of York, VA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alexandria city, Virginia alexandriava.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bristol city, Virginia bristolva.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Buena Vista city, Virginia buenavistavirginia.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Charlottesville city, Virginia charlottesville.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Chesapeake city, Virginia cityofchesapeake.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 40 | Gated | 16 | |
| Colonial Heights city, Virginia colonialheightsva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Covington city, Virginia covington.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Danville city, Virginia danville-va.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Emporia city, Virginia ci.emporia.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Fairfax city, Virginia fairfaxva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Falls Church city, Virginia fallschurchva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin city, Virginia franklinva.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 46 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fredericksburg city, Virginia fredericksburgva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Galax city, Virginia galaxva.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 30 | |
| Hampton city, Virginia hampton.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harrisonburg city, Virginia harrisonburgva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hopewell city, Virginia hopewellva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lexington city, Virginia lexingtonva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lynchburg city, Virginia lynchburgva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Manassas city, Virginia manassasva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Manassas Park city, Virginia cityofmanassaspark.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Martinsville city, Virginia martinsville-va.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Newport News city, Virginia nnva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Norfolk city, Virginia norfolk.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Norton city, Virginia nortonva.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Petersburg city, Virginia petersburg-va.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Poquoson city, Virginia poquoson-va.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Portsmouth city, Virginia portsmouthva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Radford city, Virginia radford.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Richmond city, Virginia rva.govCity of Richmond, VA (.gov registry) | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Roanoke city, Virginia roanokeva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Salem city, Virginia salemva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Staunton city, Virginia staunton.va.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Suffolk city, Virginia suffolkva.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Virginia Beach city, Virginia virginiabeach.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Waynesboro city, Virginia waynesboro.va.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Williamsburg city, Virginia williamsburgva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winchester city, Virginia winchesterva.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adams County, Washington co.adams.wa.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Asotin County, Washington asotincountywa.govregistered as Asotin County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Benton County, Washington bentoncountywa.govregistered as Benton County, WA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chelan County, Washington chelancounty.govregistered as Chelan County Courthouse in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clallam County, Washington clallamcountywa.govregistered as Clallam County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clark County, Washington clark.wa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Columbia County, Washington columbiacountywa.govregistered as Columbia County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cowlitz County, Washington cowlitzwa.govregistered as Cowlitz County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Douglas County, Washington douglascountywa.govregistered as Douglas County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ferry County, Washington ferry-county.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Franklin County, Washington franklincountywa.govregistered as Franklin County Washington in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Garfield County, Washington garfieldcountywa.govregistered as Garfield County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, Washington grantcountywa.govregistered as Grant County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grays Harbor County, Washington graysharbor.govregistered as Grays Harbor County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Island County, Washington islandcountywa.govregistered as Island County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Washington jeffcowa.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| King County, Washington kingcountyhazwastewa.govregistered as King County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kitsap County, Washington kitsap.govregistered as Kitsap County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kittitas County, Washington kittitascounty.govregistered as Kittitas County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Klickitat County, Washington klickitatfiredistrict4.govregistered as KLICKITAT COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT #4 in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lewis County, Washington lewiscountywa.govregistered as Lewis County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Washington lincolncountywaelections.govregistered as Lincoln County Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mason County, Washington masoncountywa.govregistered as Mason County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Okanogan County, Washington okanogancounty.govregistered as Okanogan County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pacific County, Washington pacificcountysheriff.govregistered as Pacific County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pend Oreille County, Washington pendoreille.govregistered as Pend Oreille County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pierce County, Washington piercecountywa.govregistered as Pierce County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Juan County, Washington sanjuancountywa.govregistered as San Juan County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Skagit County, Washington skagitcountywa.govregistered as Skagit County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Skamania County, Washington skamaniacounty.govregistered as Skamania County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Snohomish County, Washington snoco.govregistered as Snohomish County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Spokane County, Washington spokanecounty.govregistered as Spokane County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Stevens County, Washington stevenscountywa.govregistered as Stevens County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Thurston County, Washington thurstoncountywa.govregistered as Thurston County, WA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wahkiakum County, Washington wahkiakumcounty.govregistered as Wahkiakum County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Walla Walla County, Washington wwcowa.govregistered as Walla Walla County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Whatcom County, Washington whatcomcounty.govregistered as Whatcom County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Whitman County, Washington whitmancounty.govregistered as Whitman County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yakima County, Washington yakimacounty.govregistered as Yakima County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barbour County, West Virginia barbourcountywv.govregistered as Barbour County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Berkeley County, West Virginia berkeleycountycomm.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Boone County, West Virginia boonecountywv.govregistered as Boone County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Braxton County, West Virginia braxtoncountywv.govregistered as Braxton County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brooke County, West Virginia brookecountywv.govregistered as Brooke County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cabell County, West Virginia cabellcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | Gated | 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