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 301–400 of 3,144 · page 4 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saguache County, Colorado saguachecounty-co.govregistered as Saguache County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Juan County, Colorado sanjuancountycolorado.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| San Miguel County, Colorado sanmiguelcountyco.govregistered as San Miguel County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sedgwick County, Colorado sedgwickcountygov.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 35 | Gated | 1 | |
| Summit County, Colorado summitcountyco.govregistered as Summit County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Teller County, Colorado tellercounty.govregistered as Teller County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Colorado co.washington.co.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Weld County, Colorado weldmotorvehicle.govregistered as Weld County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Yuma County, Colorado yumacountyco.govregistered as Yuma County Colorado in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut crcogct.govregistered as Capitol Region Council of Governments; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut metrocogct.govregistered as Connecticut Metropolitan Council of Governments (MetroCOG); Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Connecticut rivercog.orgLower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments (RiverCOG), verified by fetching the site; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Connecticut nvcogct.govregistered as Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut neccog.orgNortheastern Connecticut Council of Governments (NECCOG), verified by fetching the site; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 55 | Gated | 28 | |
| Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut nhcogct.govregistered as Northwest Hills Council of Governments; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut scrcogct.govregistered as South Central Regional Council of Governments; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut secogct.govregistered as Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body in the .gov registry; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut westcog.orgWestern Connecticut Council of Governments (WestCOG), verified by fetching the site; Connecticut has no county government; the planning region is the county equivalent and its council of governments is the regional body; Connecticut has no county government; the site is the planning region's council of governments | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Kent County, Delaware kentcountyde.govregistered as Kent County Levy Court in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| New Castle County, Delaware newcastlede.govregistered as New Castle County Governement in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sussex County, Delaware sussexcountyde.govregistered as Sussex County Council in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| District of Columbia, District of Columbia dc.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Alachua County, Florida alachuacounty.govregistered as Alachua County BOCC in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Baker County, Florida bakerfl.govregistered as County of Baker, Florida in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bay County, Florida baycountyfl.govregistered as Bay County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bradford County, Florida bradfordcountyfl.govregistered as Bradford County Florida in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brevard County, Florida brevardfl.govregistered as Brevard County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Broward County, Florida browardclerk.govregistered as Broward County Clerk of Courts in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calhoun County, Florida calhouncountyfl.govregistered as Calhoun County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Charlotte County, Florida charlottecountyfl.govregistered as Charlotte County BCC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Citrus County, Florida citrusbocc.govregistered as Citrus County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Florida clayelections.govregistered as Clay County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Collier County, Florida colliercountyfl.govregistered as Collier County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia County, Florida votecolumbiafl.govregistered as Columbia County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeSoto County, Florida sheriffdesotofl.govregistered as DeSoto County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dixie County, Florida dixievotes.govregistered as Dixie County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Duval County, Florida duvalclerk.govregistered as Duval County Clerk of Courts in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Escambia County, Florida escambiavotes.govregistered as Escambia County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Flagler County, Florida flaglertax.govregistered as Flagler County Tax Collector in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Florida franklincountyflorida.govregistered as Franklin County Florida Administration in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gadsden County, Florida gadsdencountyfl.govregistered as Gadsden County BOCC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gilchrist County, Florida gilchrist.fl.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Glades County, Florida voteglades.govregistered as Glades County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gulf County, Florida gulfcounty-fl.govregistered as Gulf County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamilton County, Florida hamiltonflsheriff.govregistered as Hamilton County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hardee County, Florida hardeecountyfl.govregistered as Hardee County BOCC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hendry County, Florida hendryelections.govregistered as Hendry County SOE in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hernando County, Florida hernandovotes.govregistered as Hernando County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Highlands County, Florida highlandsfl.govregistered as Highlands County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hillsborough County, Florida hcfl.govregistered as Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Holmes County, Florida holmescountyonline.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 26 | Gated | 1 | |
| Indian River County, Florida indianriver.govregistered as Indian River County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Florida jacksoncountyfl.govregistered as Jackson County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Florida jeffersoncountyfl.govregistered as Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lafayette County, Florida mylafayettecounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lake County, Florida lakecountyfl.govregistered as Lake County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lee County, Florida leefl.govregistered as Lee County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Leon County, Florida leonpa.govregistered as Leon County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Levy County, Florida votelevy.govregistered as Levy County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Liberty County, Florida libertycountyflsoe.govregistered as Liberty County SOE in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Florida madisoncountyfl.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Manatee County, Florida manateepao.govregistered as Manatee County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Florida marioncountyfl.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Akamai) | — | No | — | |
| Martin County, Florida pamartinfl.govregistered as Martin County Property Appraiser Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miami-Dade County, Florida mdcfl.govregistered as Miami-Dade County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Florida monroecounty-fl.govregistered as Monroe County Florida in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Nassau County, Florida nassaucountyfl.govregistered as Nassau County BOCC in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Okaloosa County, Florida myokaloosa.govregistered as Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Okeechobee County, Florida okeechobeecountyfl.govregistered as Okeechobee County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Orange County, Florida voteorangefl.govregistered as Orange County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Osceola County, Florida osceolaflpa.govregistered as Osceola County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Palm Beach County, Florida pbc.govregistered as Palm Beach County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pasco County, Florida pascopa.govregistered as Pasco County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pinellas County, Florida pinellas.govregistered as Pinellas County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Polk County, Florida polkfl.govregistered as Polk County, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Putnam County, Florida putnam-fl.govregistered as Putnam County BOCC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Johns County, Florida votesjc.govregistered as St Johns County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| St. Lucie County, Florida stlucieclerk.govregistered as St. Lucie County Clerk & Comptroller in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Santa Rosa County, Florida srcpa.govregistered as Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sarasota County, Florida sarasotadmv.govregistered as Sarasota County Tax Collector in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Seminole County, Florida seminolecountyfl.govregistered as Seminole County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sumter County, Florida sumtercountyfl.govregistered as Sumter County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Suwannee County, Florida suwcountyfl.govregistered as Suwannee County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taylor County, Florida taylorelectionsfl.govregistered as Taylor County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Union County, Florida unionflpa.govregistered as Union County Property Appraiser in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Volusia County, Florida volusia.govregistered as County of Volusia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wakulla County, Florida wakullavotes.govregistered as Wakulla County Supervisor of Elections in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Walton County, Florida mywaltonfl.govregistered as Walton County Board of County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Florida washingtonfl.govregistered as Washington County Board of County Commissioner in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Appling County, Georgia applingcounty.govregistered as Appling County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Atkinson County, Georgia atkinson-ga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bacon County, Georgia baconcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Baker County, Georgia bakercountyga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 30 | |
| Baldwin County, Georgia baldwincountyga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Banks County, Georgia bankscountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barrow County, Georgia barrowga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | No | 1 | |
| Bartow County, Georgia bartowcountyga.govregistered as Bartow County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ben Hill County, Georgia benhillcounty-ga.govregistered as Ben Hill County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Berrien County, Georgia berriencountyga.govregistered as Berrien County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bibb County, Georgia maconbibb.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 59 | 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