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 3,001–3,100 of 3,144 · page 31 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County, West Virginia calhouncounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, West Virginia claycounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Doddridge County, West Virginia doddridgecountywv.govregistered as Doddridge County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fayette County, West Virginia fayettecountywv.govregistered as Fayette County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gilmer County, West Virginia gilmercountywv.govregistered as Gilmer County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, West Virginia grantcountywv.govregistered as Grant County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greenbrier County, West Virginia greenbrierwv.govregistered as Greenbrier County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hampshire County, West Virginia hampshirecounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, West Virginia hancockcountywv.govregistered as Hancock County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hardy County, West Virginia hardycounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 63 | No | 1 | |
| Harrison County, West Virginia harrisoncountywv.govregistered as Harrison County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, West Virginia jacksoncounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, West Virginia jeffcowv.govregistered as Jefferson County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kanawha County, West Virginia kanawha.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Lewis County, West Virginia lewiscounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, West Virginia lincolncountywv.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 50 | No | 1 | |
| Logan County, West Virginia logancounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| McDowell County, West Virginia mcdowellcountywv.govregistered as McDowell County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, West Virginia marioncountywv.govregistered as MARION COUNTY COMMISSION in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, West Virginia marshallcountywv.govregistered as Marshall County West Virginia Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mason County, West Virginia masoncountywv.govregistered as Mason County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mercer County, West Virginia mercerprosecutorwv.govregistered as Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mineral County, West Virginia mineralwv.govregistered as Mineral County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mingo County, West Virginia mingocountywv.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 55 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monongalia County, West Virginia monongaliacounty.govregistered as Monongalia County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, West Virginia monroecountywv.govregistered as Monroe County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, West Virginia morgancountywv.govregistered as Morgan County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nicholas County, West Virginia nicholascountywv.govregistered as Nicholas County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ohio County, West Virginia ohiocountywv.govregistered as Ohio County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pendleton County, West Virginia pendletoncountywv.govregistered as Pendleton County Office of Emergency Management in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pleasants County, West Virginia pleasantscountywv.govregistered as Pleasants County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pocahontas County, West Virginia pocahontascountywv.govregistered as Pocahontas County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Preston County, West Virginia prestoncountywv.govregistered as Preston County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Putnam County, West Virginia putnamcountywv.govregistered as Putnam County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Raleigh County, West Virginia raleighcounty.govregistered as RALEIGH COUNTY COMMISSION in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Randolph County, West Virginia randolphctywv.govregistered as Randolph County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ritchie County, West Virginia ritchiecounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Roane County, West Virginia roanecounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Summers County, West Virginia summerscountywv.govregistered as Summers County Commissio in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taylor County, West Virginia taylorcountywv.govregistered as Taylor County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tucker County, West Virginia tuckercounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tyler County, West Virginia tylercountywv.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 20 | |
| Upshur County, West Virginia upshurcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | Gated | 31 | |
| Wayne County, West Virginia waynecountywv.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | No | 21 | |
| Webster County, West Virginia webstercounty.wv.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wetzel County, West Virginia wetzelcountywv.govregistered as Wetzel County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wirt County, West Virginia wirtcountywvsheriff.govregistered as Wirt County Sheriff Department in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wood County, West Virginia woodcountywv.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Wyoming County, West Virginia wycowv.govregistered as Wyoming County Commission in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Adams County, Wisconsin co.adams.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ashland County, Wisconsin ashlandcountywi.govregistered as Ashland County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barron County, Wisconsin barroncountywi.govregistered as Barron County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bayfield County, Wisconsin bayfieldcountywi.govregistered as Bayfield County WI in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brown County, Wisconsin browncountywi.govregistered as Brown County Information Services in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Buffalo County, Wisconsin buffalocountywi.govregistered as Buffalo County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Burnett County, Wisconsin burnettcountywi.govregistered as County of Burnett in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calumet County, Wisconsin calumetcounty.govregistered as Calumet County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chippewa County, Wisconsin chippewacountywi.govregistered as Chippewa County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clark County, Wisconsin clarkcountywi.govregistered as Clark County Wisconsin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia County, Wisconsin columbiacountywi.govregistered as Columbia County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crawford County, Wisconsin crawfordcountywi.govregistered as Crawford County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dane County, Wisconsin henryvilaszoo.govregistered as Dane County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dodge County, Wisconsin dodgecountywi.govregistered as County of Dodge in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Door County, Wisconsin co.door.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Douglas County, Wisconsin douglascountywi.govregistered as Douglas County, Wisconsin in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dunn County, Wisconsin dunncountywi.govregistered as Dunn County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Eau Claire County, Wisconsin eauclairecounty.govregistered as Eau Claire County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Florence County, Wisconsin florencecountywi.govregistered as Florence County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin fdlco.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Forest County, Wisconsin forestcountywi.govregistered as Forest County Courthouse in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grant County, Wisconsin co.grant.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Green County, Wisconsin co.green.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Green Lake County, Wisconsin greenlakecountywi.govregistered as Green Lake County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iowa County, Wisconsin iowacountywi.govregistered as Iowa County in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iron County, Wisconsin co.iron.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Wisconsin jacksoncountywi.govregistered as Jackson County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Wisconsin jeffersoncountywi.govregistered as Jefferson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Juneau County, Wisconsin juneaucountywi.govregistered as Juneau County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kenosha County, Wisconsin kenoshacountywi.govregistered as Kenosha County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kewaunee County, Wisconsin kewauneeco.govregistered as Kewaunee County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| La Crosse County, Wisconsin co.la-crosse.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Lafayette County, Wisconsin co.lafayette.wi.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Langlade County, Wisconsin co.langlade.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Wisconsin co.lincoln.wi.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Manitowoc County, Wisconsin manitowoccountywi.govregistered as Manitowoc County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marathon County, Wisconsin marathoncounty.govregistered as Marathon County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marinette County, Wisconsin marinettecountywi.govregistered as County of Marinette in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marquette County, Wisconsin marquettecountywi.govregistered as Marquette County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Menominee County, Wisconsin co.menominee.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Milwaukee County, Wisconsin milwaukeecountywi.govregistered as County of Milwaukee in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Wisconsin co.monroe.wi.usblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Oconto County, Wisconsin ocontocountywi.govregistered as Oconto County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oneida County, Wisconsin oneidacountywi.govregistered as Oneida County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Outagamie County, Wisconsin outagamie.govregistered as Outagamie County Wisconsin in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ozaukee County, Wisconsin ozaukeecounty.govregistered as Ozaukee County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pepin County, Wisconsin co.pepin.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pierce County, Wisconsin co.pierce.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 43 | Gated | 4 | |
| Polk County, Wisconsin polkcountywi.govregistered as Polk County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Portage County, Wisconsin co.portage.wi.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Price County, Wisconsin co.price.wi.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