Of the 212 fully scanned U.S. city sites we tested, 10 (5%) need JavaScript to show their main content. Pages built this way load slowly. The browser has to run the script before it can show anything. The companies behind the biggest AI agents also say they do not index content rendered this way. So these pages stay out of the AI knowledge base. Among states with at least 10 tested sites, Texas has the highest share (8%). Florida has the lowest (0%). This page uses the Content available in document check. It passes when the page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. We ran it only on sites that looked like they use JavaScript to show content. A site with no result counts as passing.
10 of 212
City sites that need JavaScript to show their main content
5%
Share of tested city sites that fail this check
6 of 41
States with at least one failing city site
8%
Texas has the highest share: 4 of 52 tested city sites
By state
The share of tested city sites in each state that need JavaScript to show their main content.
| State | Tested | Needs JavaScript | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 2 | 1 | 50% |
| Michigan | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| North Carolina | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Virginia | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Texas | 52 | 4 | 8% |
| California | 32 | 2 | 6% |
| Alabama | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Arizona | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Arkansas | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Colorado | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Connecticut | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Florida | 11 | 0 | 0% |
| Georgia | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Idaho | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Illinois | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Indiana | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Kansas | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Louisiana | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Maine | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Massachusetts | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Minnesota | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Missouri | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Montana | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| New Jersey | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| New Mexico | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| New York | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| North Dakota | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Ohio | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Oregon | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| South Carolina | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| South Dakota | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Tennessee | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Utah | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Washington | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| West Virginia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 0% |
The 10 city sites that need JavaScript to show their main content
Sorted by state, then name. Each site links to its botability report and shows its botability and overall grades from the same scan.
| Site | State | Botability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
| bakersfieldcity.us City of Bakersfield, CA |
California | D | C |
| sanbernardino.gov City of San Bernardino, CA |
California | C | C |
| lansingmi.gov City of Lansing, MI |
Michigan | D | B |
| reno.gov City of Reno, NV |
Nevada | F | C |
| highpointnc.gov City of High Point, NC |
North Carolina | C | C |
| cityofconroe.org City of Conroe, TX |
Texas | F | C |
| thecityofhedwigvillage.com City of Hedwig Village, TX |
Texas | D | B |
| cityofhumbletx.gov City of Humble, TX |
Texas | D | C |
| plano.gov City of Plano, TX |
Texas | C | C |
| alexandriava.gov City of Alexandria, VA |
Virginia | D | B |
About this check
Content available in document is one of the botability checks. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript.
Why it matters
Client-side rendering is a slow way to deliver a page. The browser has to download and run the script before it can show any content, so the page loads poorly. It also keeps you out of AI answers. The companies behind the biggest AI agents say they do not index content rendered on the client. A page built this way is not part of their knowledge base.
Risk
Bots cannot read your content.
Guidance
- Content available in document standard, with how to fix it
- The Web Robots Pages
- City botability rankings
About this data
ScanGov scans the homepage of each county site on our county list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 9/30/2026 and 11/5/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We could not fully scan 54 sites. They did not respond, blocked the scanner, or sent no page content. They appear in the table without grades, with their scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.