Updated 4 November 2026 · every day

AI findability in Canterbury

Name: NZ AI-Findability Index, Canterbury
Creator: List-It
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Findable

61.8%

of 13,048 Canterbury businesses with a website

Sites that did not load

20.5%

did not resolve when we visited

National figure

60.8%

Canterbury is 1 points above the national rate

Claimed their listing

0.2%

of Canterbury businesses in the index

The four facts in Canterbury

Fact	Share	Businesses
A description of what they do	56.8%	13,048
A phone number	67.8%	13,048
A logo	79.5%	13,048
A social profile	45.7%	13,048

According to the List-It NZ AI-Findability Index (live figures, list-it.nz/findability/regions/canterbury, read 4 November 2026), 61.8% of the 13,048 Canterbury business websites read publish at least 3 of the 4 facts an AI assistant needs before it can name them.

Source register: Companies Office Bulk Data October 2026, no file generation date stated in the release, 774,627 entities
Websites read: 112,619, read between 5 September 2026 and 4 November 2026, of 120,720 on the register with a website
Method: We read each business’s own website for four facts (about text of 40 characters or more, a dialable phone number of 6 to 12 digits, a logo image, and a link to at least one social profile). At least 3 of the 4 facts. Full method.
Computed: 4 November 2026 at 6:00 am NZ, frozen 4 November 2026 at 6:00 am NZ
Code: dpl_9LvBU4GV8C9rXEWJwijcx5EQ96Ck

How we got this number

Findable in Canterbury: 61.8%
Among NZ businesses whose own website List-It has read, a business counts as findable when that website exposed at least 3 of 4 facts an AI assistant needs: a description of what it does, a valid phone number, a logo, and a social profile. Every fact is read from the business’s own website. Nothing List-It has added to a page counts towards its score.
8,064 of 13,048

The denominator is every entity on the NZBN register, dormant companies and holding companies included. We do not filter it, because any filter would be a guess. Treat these as figures for the register, not for the trading economy.

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Canterbury towns

Towns with at least 150 businesses with a website.

Most findable

Sydenham73% · 418

Ashburton73% · 378

Addington67.7% · 492

Christchurch Central67.6% · 719

Christchurch63.7% · 2,673

Rangiora63.7% · 567

Burnside63.5% · 249

Woolston63.3% · 218

Riccarton61.8% · 519

Timaru61.7% · 473

Least findable

Halswell51.2% · 338

Kaiapoi53.5% · 275

Avonhead54.2% · 155

St Albans54.9% · 195

Lincoln56.4% · 211

Ilam57.6% · 158

Merivale57.8% · 173

Sockburn57.9% · 152

Hornby60.1% · 193

Wigram60.4% · 255

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The dated Canterbury report from September 2026 · The national index · How it is measured · All editions

Frozen editions: October 2026, September 2026.