Alaska county websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 19 Alaska county government websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 19
  • Last scan: 9/20/2026

F 52

Average usability score of 15 fully scanned Alaska county sites

10th

of 48 states, ranked by average usability score

15 of 19

Sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 4, so they're listed without grades

F 49

U.S. county average usability score, 2435 fully scanned sites

Alaska's state site, alaska.gov, ranks 22nd of 51 state sites with a D. State rankings.

How Alaska county usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 15 fully scanned Alaska county sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 15 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Alaska average
  • U.S. county average
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How Alaska county usability scores are distributed
Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 291
30 to 392
40 to 494
50 to 594
60 to 691
70 to 793
80 to 890
90 to 1000

Alaska counties by usability grade, compared with all U.S. counties

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Alaska: 15 sites. U.S.: 2435 sites.

  1. AlaskaB to C (70 to 89): 20% (3 sites)D to F (below 70): 80% (12 sites)
  2. All U.S. countiesA (90 to 100): 1% (24 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 18% (436 sites)D to F (below 70): 81% (1,975 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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Alaska counties by usability grade, compared with all U.S. counties
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Alaska0% (0)20% (3)80% (12)
All U.S. counties1% (24)18% (436)81% (1,975)

Top 3 Alaska county sites by usability score

#1 in Alaska · U.S. rank 8

Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK

C 76 usability

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability C

#2 in Alaska · U.S. rank 10

Aleutians East Borough, AK

C 70 usability

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability A
  • Security C
  • Usability C

#2 in Alaska · U.S. rank 10

Northwest Arctic Borough, AK

C 70 usability

  • Accessibility B
  • Botability B
  • Security B
  • Usability C

Most common usability failures among Alaska county sites

Share of the 15 fully scanned Alaska county sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to its standard and how to fix it.

  1. Open Graph image alt93% (14 of 15 sites)
  2. First Contentful Paint (FCP)87% (13 of 15 sites)
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)87% (13 of 15 sites)
  4. Page description73% (11 of 15 sites)
  5. Open Graph description67% (10 of 15 sites)
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Most common usability failures among Alaska county sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt93%14
First Contentful Paint (FCP)87%13
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)87%13
Page description73%11
Open Graph description67%10

What each check means

  • Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
  • First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. Users see blank screen and think site is broken.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.
  • Page description. The page has a meta description that summarizes its content for search results. Search results do not show what your page does.
  • Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.

All Alaska county sites by usability score

Alaska county sites ranked by usability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 matsu.gov
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK U.S. rank 8
13 of 17 checks pass C
2 aleutianseast.org
Aleutians East Borough, AK U.S. rank 10
12 of 17 checks pass C
2 nwabor.org
Northwest Arctic Borough, AK U.S. rank 10
12 of 17 checks pass C
3 north-slope.org
North Slope Borough, AK U.S. rank 12
11 of 17 checks pass D
4 muni.org
Anchorage, AK U.S. rank 14
10 of 17 checks pass F
4 fnsb.gov
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK U.S. rank 14
10 of 17 checks pass F
4 petersburgak.gov
Petersburg Borough, AK U.S. rank 14
10 of 17 checks pass F
5 juneau.org
Juneau, AK U.S. rank 16
9 of 17 checks pass F
6 bristolbayboroughak.us
Bristol Bay Borough, AK U.S. rank 18
8 of 17 checks pass F
6 lakeandpen.com
Lake and Peninsula Borough, AK U.S. rank 18
8 of 17 checks pass F
6 cityofsitka.com
Sitka, AK U.S. rank 18
8 of 17 checks pass F
7 wrangell.com
Wrangell, AK U.S. rank 20
7 of 17 checks pass F
8 kpb.us
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK U.S. rank 22
6 of 17 checks pass F
8 borough.ketchikan.ak.us
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK U.S. rank 22
6 of 17 checks pass F
9 kodiakak.us
Kodiak Island Borough, AK U.S. rank 24
5 of 17 checks pass F
denaliborough.govoffice.com
Denali Borough, AK
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asked us not to. Status 998 -
hainesalaska.gov
Haines Borough, AK
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -
skagway.org
Skagway, AK
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -
yakutatak.us
Yakutat, AK
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because it showed our bot a captcha or browser check instead of the page. Status 996 -

About this data

ScanGov scans the homepage of each county government site on our county list in Alaska. Scores come from the checks listed on standards.scangov.org. Sites were scanned between 7/19/2026 and 9/18/2026; 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 4 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.