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 801–900 of 3,144 · page 9 of 32
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan County, Iowa co.buchanan.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Buena Vista County, Iowa bvcountyattorney.govregistered as Buena Vista County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butler County, Iowa butlercoiowa.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Calhoun County, Iowa calhouncountyiowa.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Carroll County, Iowa carrollcountyiowa.govregistered as Carroll County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cass County, Iowa casscountyia.govregistered as Cass County Iowa in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cedar County, Iowa cedarcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cerro Gordo County, Iowa cerrogordo.govregistered as Cerro Gordo County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Cherokee County, Iowa cherokeecountyiowa.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chickasaw County, Iowa chickasawcoia.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clarke County, Iowa clarkecountyiowa.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clay County, Iowa co.clay.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clayton County, Iowa claytoncountyia.govregistered as Clayton County, Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Clinton County, Iowa clintoncounty-ia.govregistered as County of Clinton in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Crawford County, Iowa crawfordcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dallas County, Iowa dallascountyiowa.govregistered as Dallas County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Davis County, Iowa daviscountyiowa.govregistered as Davis County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Decatur County, Iowa decaturcountyiowa.govregistered as Decatur County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Delaware County, Iowa co.delaware.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Des Moines County, Iowa co.des-moines.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dickinson County, Iowa dickinsoncountyiowa.govregistered as Dickinson County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dubuque County, Iowa dubuquecountyiowa.govregistered as Dubuque County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Emmet County, Iowa emmetcountyia.govregistered as Emmet County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fayette County, Iowa fayettecountysoia.govregistered as Fayette County Sheriffs Office in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Floyd County, Iowa floydcountyiowa.govregistered as Floyd County Iowa in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Franklin County, Iowa franklincountyia.govregistered as Franklin County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Fremont County, Iowa fremontcountyia.govregistered as Fremont County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Greene County, Iowa co.greene.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Grundy County, Iowa grundycountyiowa.govregistered as Grundy County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Guthrie County, Iowa gcso.govregistered as Guthrie County, Iowa in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hamilton County, Iowa hamiltoncounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hancock County, Iowa hancockcountyia.govregistered as Hancock County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hardin County, Iowa hardincountyia.govregistered as Hardin County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Harrison County, Iowa harrisoncountyia.orgblockedweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Henry County, Iowa henrycountyiowa.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Howard County, Iowa howard-county.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Humboldt County, Iowa humboldtcountyia.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ida County, Iowa idacounty.iowa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Iowa County, Iowa co.iowa.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jackson County, Iowa co.jackson.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Jasper County, Iowa co.jasper.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jefferson County, Iowa jeffersoncounty.iowa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Johnson County, Iowa johnsoncountyiowa.govregistered as Johnson County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Jones County, Iowa jonescountyiowa.govregistered as Jones County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Keokuk County, Iowa keokukcountyia.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Kossuth County, Iowa co.kossuth.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lee County, Iowa leecountyiowa.govregistered as Lee County, Iowa in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Linn County, Iowa linncounty-ia.govregistered as Linn County, IA in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Louisa County, Iowa louisacountyia.govregistered as Louisa County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lucas County, Iowa lucascounty.iowa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Lyon County, Iowa lyoncountyiowa.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 34 | Gated | 1 | |
| Madison County, Iowa madisoncounty.iowa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mahaska County, Iowa mahaskacountyia.govregistered as Mahaska County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marion County, Iowa marioncountyiowa.govregistered as County of Marion, Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Marshall County, Iowa marshallcountyia.govregistered as Marshall County, Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mills County, Iowa millscountyiowa.govregistered as Mills County Iowa in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Mitchell County, Iowa mitchellcountyiowa.govregistered as Mitchell County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monona County, Iowa mononacountyiowa.govregistered as Monona County Courthouse in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Monroe County, Iowa monroecoia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Montgomery County, Iowa montgomerycountyia.govregistered as Montgomery County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Muscatine County, Iowa muscatinecountyiowa.govregistered as Muscatine County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| O'Brien County, Iowa obriencounty.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 53 | No | 32 | |
| Osceola County, Iowa osceolacountyia.govregistered as County of Osceola in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Page County, Iowa co.page.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Palo Alto County, Iowa paloaltosheriff.govregistered as Palo Alto County Sheriffs in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Plymouth County, Iowa plymouthcountyiowa.govregistered as Plymouth County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pocahontas County, Iowa pocahontascountyiowa.govregistered as Pocahontas County IT in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Polk County, Iowa polkcountyiowa.govregistered as Polk County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Pottawattamie County, Iowa pottia.govregistered as Pottawattamie County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Poweshiek County, Iowa poweshiekcountyiowa.govregistered as Poweshiek County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Ringgold County, Iowa ringgoldcounty.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sac County, Iowa saccountyiowa.govregistered as Sac County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Scott County, Iowa scottcountyiowa.govregistered as Scott County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Shelby County, Iowa shco.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Sioux County, Iowa siouxcountyia.govregistered as Sioux County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Story County, Iowa storycountyiowa.govregistered as County of Story in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Tama County, Iowa tamacountyiowa.govregistered as Tama County Board of Supervisors in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Taylor County, Iowa taylorcountyiowa.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Union County, Iowa unioncountyiowa.govregistered as Union County Iowa Courthouse in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Van Buren County, Iowa vanburencountyia.govregistered as Van Buren County Iowa in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wapello County, Iowa wapellocounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 60 | No | 1 | |
| Warren County, Iowa warrencountyia.govregistered as Warren County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Washington County, Iowa co.washington.ia.usweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wayne County, Iowa waynecountyiowa.comweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Webster County, Iowa webstercountyia.govregistered as Webster County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winnebago County, Iowa winnebagocountyiowa.govregistered as Winnebago County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Winneshiek County, Iowa winneshiekcounty.iowa.govweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Woodbury County, Iowa woodburycountyiowa.govregistered as Woodbury County Iowa in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Worth County, Iowa worthcountyiowa.govregistered as Worth County in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Wright County, Iowa wrightcounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Allen County, Kansas allencounty.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 48 | Gated | 29 | |
| Anderson County, Kansas andersoncountyks.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 68 | No | 1 | |
| Atchison County, Kansas atchisoncountyks.govregistered as Atchison County in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Barber County, Kansas barbercounty.netweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 56 | No | 1 | |
| Barton County, Kansas bartonsheriffks.govregistered as Barton County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bourbon County, Kansas bourboncountyks.govregistered as Bourbon County Clerk in the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Brown County, Kansas brcoks.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Butler County, Kansas bucoks.govregistered as Butler County KS in the .gov registry; this is the elections office's site, not the county's main site | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chase County, Kansas chasecountychamber.orgweb address from Wikidata (P856), not the .gov registry; possibly not the official site; low confidence | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Chautauqua County, Kansas chautauquacountyks.govregistered as Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office in the .gov registry | 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