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 401–500 of 3,144 · page 5 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bleckley County, Georgia bleckley.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Brantley County, Georgia brantleycounty-ga.govregistered as Brantley County of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brooks County, Georgia brookscountyga.govregistered as Brooks County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bryan County, Georgia bryancountyga.govregistered as Bryan County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bulloch County, Georgia bullochcounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 31 | |
| Burke County, Georgia burkecounty-ga.govregistered as Burke County Georgia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butts County, Georgia buttscountyga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 30 | Gated | 32 | |
| Calhoun County, Georgia calhounsoga.govregistered as Calhoun County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Camden County, Georgia camdencountyga.govregistered as Camden County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Candler County, Georgia candlerco-ga.govregistered as Candler County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Georgia carrollcountyga.govregistered as Carroll County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Catoosa County, Georgia catoosacountyga.govregistered as Catoosa County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Charlton County, Georgia charltoncountyga.govregistered as Charlton County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chatham County, Georgia chathamcountyga.govregistered as Chatham County, GA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chattahoochee County, Georgia ugoccc.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 69 | No | 1 | |
| Chattooga County, Georgia chattoogacounty.govregistered as Chattooga County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cherokee County, Georgia cherokeecountyga.govregistered as Cherokee County BOC in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarke County, Georgia athensclarkecounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Georgia claycountyga.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Clayton County, Georgia claytoncountyga.govregistered as Clayton County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clinch County, Georgia clinchcountyga.govregistered as Clinch County Commission in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cobb County, Georgia cobbcounty.govregistered as Cobb County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coffee County, Georgia coffeecounty-ga.govregistered as Coffee County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Colquitt County, Georgia colquittcountyga.govregistered as Colquitt County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Columbia County, Georgia columbiacountyga.govregistered as Columbia County Georgia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cook County, Georgia cookcountyga.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Coweta County, Georgia cowetaga.govregistered as Coweta County, GA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crawford County, Georgia crawfordcountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 39 | Gated | 32 | |
| Crisp County, Georgia crispcounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dade County, Georgia dadecounty-ga.govregistered as Dade County Georgia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dawson County, Georgia dawsoncountyga.govregistered as Dawson County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Decatur County, Georgia decaturcountyga.govregistered as Decatur County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| DeKalb County, Georgia dekalbcountyga.govregistered as DeKalb County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dodge County, Georgia dodgecountyga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 57 | No | 25 | |
| Dooly County, Georgia doolycountyga.govregistered as Dooly County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dougherty County, Georgia dougherty.ga.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 41 | Gated | 32 | |
| Douglas County, Georgia douglascountyga.govregistered as Douglas County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Early County, Georgia earlycountyga.govregistered as Early County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Echols County, Georgia echolscountygeorgia.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 52 | No | 21 | |
| Effingham County, Georgia effga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Elbert County, Georgia elbertco.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Emanuel County, Georgia emanuelco-ga.govregistered as Emanuel County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Evans County, Georgia evanscounty.orgunreachableweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | — | No | — | |
| Fannin County, Georgia fannincountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fayette County, Georgia fayettecountyga.govregistered as Fayette County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Floyd County, Georgia floydcountyga.govregistered as Floyd County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Forsyth County, Georgia forsythco.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Franklin County, Georgia franklincountyga.govregistered as Franklin County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fulton County, Georgia fultoncountyga.govregistered as Fulton County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gilmer County, Georgia gilmercounty-ga.govregistered as Gilmer County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Glascock County, Georgia glascockcountyga.comblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Glynn County, Georgia glynncounty-ga.govregistered as Glynn County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gordon County, Georgia gordoncountyga.govregistered as County of Gordon in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grady County, Georgia gradycountyga.govregistered as Grady County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Georgia greenecountyga.govregistered as Greene County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Gwinnett County, Georgia gwinnettcounty.govregistered as Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Habersham County, Georgia habershamcounty-ga.govregistered as Habersham County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hall County, Georgia hallcountyga.govregistered as Hall County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, Georgia hancockcountyga.govregistered as Hancock County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Haralson County, Georgia haralsoncountyga.govregistered as Haralson County Commissioner in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harris County, Georgia harriscountyga.govregistered as Harris County Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hart County, Georgia hartcountyga.govregistered as Hart County Georgia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Heard County, Georgia heardcountyga.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 47 | No | 1 | |
| Henry County, Georgia henrycountyga.govregistered as Henry County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Houston County, Georgia houstoncountyga.govregistered as Houston County Board Of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Irwin County, Georgia irwincounty-ga.govregistered as Irwin County Georgia in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Georgia jacksoncoga.govregistered as Jackson County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jasper County, Georgia jaspercountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 40 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jeff Davis County, Georgia jeffdaviscountyga.govregistered as Jeff Davis County Board Of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Georgia jeffersoncountyga.govregistered as Jefferson County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jenkins County, Georgia jenkinscountyga.govregistered as Jenkins County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Georgia johnsonco.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Jones County, Georgia jonescountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 51 | No | 30 | |
| Lamar County, Georgia lamarcountyga.govregistered as Lamar County, GA in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lanier County, Georgia lanierprobatecourt.govregistered as LANIER COUNTY PROBATE AND MAGISTRATE COURT in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Laurens County, Georgia laurenscoga.govregistered as Laurens County Georgia in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lee County, Georgia leecountyga.govregistered as Lee County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Liberty County, Georgia libertycountyga.govregistered as Liberty County, Georgia in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lincoln County, Georgia lincolncountyga.govregistered as Lincoln County Government in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Long County, Georgia longcountyga.govregistered as Long County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lowndes County, Georgia lowndescountyga.govregistered as Lowndes County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lumpkin County, Georgia lumpkincounty.govregistered as Lumpkin County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McDuffie County, Georgia thomson-mcduffie.govregistered as Mcduffie County Board of Commisioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| McIntosh County, Georgia mcintoshcounty-ga.govregistered as McIntosh County Booard of Commssioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Macon County, Georgia maconcountyga.govregistered as Macon County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Georgia madisoncountyga.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Georgia marioncountyga.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Meriwether County, Georgia meriwethercountyga.govregistered as Meriwether County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Miller County, Georgia millercountyga.govregistered as Miller County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mitchell County, Georgia mitchellcountyga.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 54 | No | 32 | |
| Monroe County, Georgia monroecountygeorgia.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Georgia montcoga.govregistered as Montgomery County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Morgan County, Georgia morgancountyga.govregistered as Morgan County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Murray County, Georgia murraycountyga.govregistered as Murray County Government in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Muscogee County, Georgia muscogeecounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 66 | No | 1 | |
| Newton County, Georgia newtoncountyga.govregistered as Newton County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oconee County, Georgia oconeecountyga.govregistered as Oconee County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Oglethorpe County, Georgia oglethorpecountyga.govregistered as Oglethorpe County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Paulding County, Georgia paulding.govregistered as Paulding County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Peach County, Georgia peachcounty.govregistered as Peach County Board of Commissioners in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | 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