World government web census

Census fetched 2026-09-30 · population: National registers and official directories: Service-Public.fr annuaire (FR), IndicePA (IT, CC BY 4.0), GOV.UK list of .gov.uk domains as of 2026-03-31 (OGL v3), Register van Overheidsorganisaties (NL, CC0), AGOR 2026-06-30 (AU), IGOD (IN), gov.za directory (ZA), govt.nz A-Z (NZ), GovData Brandenburg (DE), SIORG (BR), GovHK A-Z (HK), canada.ca departments (CA), gov.sg trusted sites (SG), european-union.europa.eu bodies (EU), e-Gov links (JP) · datasets (CC BY 4.0)

The world government web census, September 2026: what 62,016 government domains in 15 countries publish for citizens, security researchers and AI agents

Every government hostname found in published registers and official directories outside the United States (62,016 domains: France's Service-Public annuaire, Italy's IndicePA, the GOV.UK domain list, the Dutch Register van Overheidsorganisaties, Australia's AGOR, and the official directories of India, South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, the EU institutions, Brandenburg and Japan) was fetched once over HTTPS on 2026-09-30, with robots.txt, security.txt (both locations), llms.txt and the A2A agent card. 47,738 answered with a website; the rest are registered for internal use, are not live, or blocked our one polite request. The US .gov census is a separate property.

Reachable over HTTPS

77.0%

47,738 of 62,016 government domains

security.txt

5.6%

2,681 of reachable sites; 1,539 complete and current

Accessibility statement linked

32.1%

15,307 homepages

Privacy policy linked

31.8%

15,203 homepages

Block GPTBot

2,031

1,405 block ChatGPT-User; 1,624 ClaudeBot

llms.txt

1,451

4 publish an A2A agent card

What we found

By body type (country and source category)

Body type (country and source category)In listReachablesecurity.txtvalidprivacy linkaccessibility linkHSTSblocks GPTBotblocks ChatGPT-Userllms.txtagent card
France (type not stated in annuaire)25,02220,709 (82.8%)887 (4.3%)892.9%29.2%36.5%2381358272
Italy (Pubbliche Amministrazioni)20,67413,929 (67.4%)476 (3.4%)44862.1%24.7%55.9%1,1501,1382290
UK gov.uk (all registrants)7,9136,534 (82.6%)272 (4.2%)20056.7%66.2%29.3%487332021
other3,8312,850 (74.4%)461 (16.2%)38029.4%23.7%58.8%8440790
Italy (Gestori di Pubblici Servizi)1,141737 (64.6%)7 (0.9%)366.6%17.9%25.6%65291
France (Établissement public)670589 (87.9%)19 (3.2%)71.4%45.3%49.2%118110
Netherlands (Gemeente)456405 (88.8%)335 (82.7%)25170.1%4.7%89.1%9820
Italy (Stazioni Appaltanti)446290 (65.0%)1 (0.3%)166.6%15.9%24.1%1250
Netherlands (Regionaal samenwerkingsorgaan)393354 (90.1%)177 (50.0%)12574.0%1.4%71.2%4270
New Zealand325320 (98.5%)19 (5.9%)1249.7%14.1%65.6%11990
France (Association d'utilité publique)323284 (87.9%)3 (1.1%)13.2%6.7%30.3%63210
France (Ambassade ou mission diplomatique)296259 (87.5%)0 (0.0%)01.5%73.4%78.0%1110
France (Collectivité locale)282249 (88.3%)24 (9.6%)220.4%32.5%65.5%211930
France (Ordre professionnel)244229 (93.9%)0 (0.0%)00.9%7.0%30.6%22260

By country

Countries with at least 20 government domains in the list; percentages are of reachable sites.

CountryIn listReachablesecurity.txtprivacy linkaccessibility linkHSTSblocks GPTBot
FR27,55522,849 (82.9%)9652.8%30.3%38.0%287
IT22,41115,064 (67.2%)48562.4%24.2%53.7%1,158
GB7,9136,534 (82.6%)27256.7%66.2%29.3%487
NL1,4131,290 (91.3%)83767.8%11.5%81.5%33
IN664331 (49.8%)325.7%15.7%64.7%8
AU451262 (58.1%)3055.7%27.5%54.6%9
ZA435320 (73.6%)120.6%0.9%16.9%6
NZ325320 (98.5%)1949.7%14.1%65.6%11
DE256235 (91.8%)582.6%2.6%50.6%21
BR148104 (70.3%)11.0%10.6%52.9%4
HK142136 (95.8%)216.2%10.3%60.3%1
CA129122 (94.6%)330.3%33.6%73.0%4
SG108108 (100.0%)050.0%3.7%78.7%2
EU5351 (96.2%)525.5%27.5%86.3%0

Named lists

Largest government domains without a security.txt (first 60 of 300)

Sites with an expired security.txt (first 60 of 296)

Sites publishing an llms.txt (first 60 of 1,000)

Sites publishing an A2A agent card (4)

Sites telling ChatGPT-User and Claude-User not to open pages for users (first 60 of 300)

Sites blocking GPTBot (OpenAI's training crawler) (first 60 of 300)

Homepages that redirect to another domain (first 60 of 300)

Sites with a Content-Signal line in robots.txt (first 60 of 131)

Largest government domains without an accessibility link on the homepage (first 60 of 300)

What government domains are expected to publish

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Questions

How many government websites outside the US publish a security.txt?

2,681 of the 47,738 reachable government sites (5.6%) publish a security.txt; 1,539 are complete and current and 296 have expired.

How many government websites block AI crawlers?

2,031 of the reachable sites tell GPTBot not to crawl at all; the report lists the per-bot verdicts for ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User and Perplexity-User.

How many government websites link an accessibility statement?

32.1% of the reachable sites link an accessibility statement from the homepage, measured as a homepage anchor whose path mentions accessibility or the visible text "accessibility statement".

Where does the list of domains come from?

From each country's own published register or official directory (listed above); domains were cleaned to bare hostnames and deduplicated, and consumer hosting platforms were dropped. No domain was invented; every row traces to a source file.

How many publish an llms.txt or an A2A agent card?

1,451 publish an llms.txt that parses; 4 publish an A2A agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

Method and limits

Population: National registers and official directories: Service-Public.fr annuaire (FR), IndicePA (IT, CC BY 4.0), GOV.UK list of .gov.uk domains as of 2026-03-31 (OGL v3), Register van Overheidsorganisaties (NL, CC0), AGOR 2026-06-30 (AU), IGOD (IN), gov.za directory (ZA), govt.nz A-Z (NZ), GovData Brandenburg (DE), SIORG (BR), GovHK A-Z (HK), canada.ca departments (CA), gov.sg trusted sites (SG), european-union.europa.eu bodies (EU), e-Gov links (JP) with each body's name, country (ISO 3166-1 code in the state column), body type as the source states it, and the source register.. Fetch: one HTTPS request to the apex (then www.), following redirects, 8-second timeout, user agent agentexchange-census/1.0; then robots.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, /security.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/agent-card.json on the final host. "Reachable" means any HTTP response over HTTPS, including 403s from bot protection. Homepage links are detected from anchor targets and visible text, so a policy that exists but is not linked from the homepage is not counted. A robots.txt "blocked" verdict means the agent's own group (or the * group) disallows the whole site; "partly blocked" means some paths are disallowed. One snapshot per domain; slow sites and sites that block automated requests are counted as unreachable or reachable-with-error as the server answered. Per-domain records: lookup; downloads: CSV, NDJSON and JSON (CC BY 4.0).

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