City websites: botability rankings
Project ScanGov botability rankings for U.S. city government websites, with the most common failures.
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Average botability score of 215 fully scanned city sites
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City sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 52, so they're listed without grades
20%
Fully scanned city sites earning an A for botability (43 sites)
27%
Fully scanned city sites earning a D or F for botability (59 sites)
How U.S. city botability scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 215 fully scanned U.S. city sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 215 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Average
View the data table
| Score range | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 0 |
| 10 to 19 | 0 |
| 20 to 29 | 0 |
| 30 to 39 | 0 |
| 40 to 49 | 0 |
| 50 to 59 | 10 |
| 60 to 69 | 49 |
| 70 to 79 | 36 |
| 80 to 89 | 77 |
| 90 to 100 | 43 |
City sites by botability grade
One dot per city site, colored by its botability grade. Select a dot to open that site's report. The table lists every site.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
- Not fully scanned
11 city sites have no map location yet and appear only in the table.
U.S. city sites by botability grade
Share of the 215 fully scanned U.S. city sites in each grade band
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
View the data table
| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All U.S. city sites | 20% (43) | 53% (113) | 27% (59) |
What each check means
- GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type. Homepage is marked up as an official government organization. Systems cannot verify you are an official government site.
- Robots valid. The site's robots.txt file is written correctly so search engines can follow it. Search engines ignore crawling rules they cannot read.
- Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.
- Sitemap XML. The sitemap file uses the required XML format. Search engines cannot read your sitemap.
- Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
All city sites by botability score
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About botability
Help AI and search engines discover, crawl, and index your website.
Why it's important
Smart technology can better process and share public information, making services faster and more efficient for users.
Risks
- AI tools cannot find or understand your content.
Guidance
What we use to grade botability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- The Web Robots Pages
- Schema.org
- sitemaps.org
- Google Search Central
Standards
- Crawlable
- Content available in document
- GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type
- Sitemap status
- Sitemap XML
- Robots valid
- Robots allowed
- Sitemap in robots.txt
- Canonical
- Link text
- hreflang
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this data
ScanGov scans the homepage of the main website of each city on our city list. Scores come from the checks listed on standards.scangov.org. Sites were scanned between 7/21/2026 and 10/2/2026; each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage returned successfully and sent the scanner its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We weren't able to fully scan 52 sites because they did not respond, blocked the scanner, or returned no page content. They appear in the table without grades, each with its scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale, and rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, including every county's raw results, is published in the ScanGov data repository.