Showing Vermont county sites. All U.S. county sites
C 76
Average usability score of 1 fully scanned Vermont county sites
1st
of 48 states, ranked by average usability score
1 of 1
Sites fully scanned
F 49
U.S. county average usability score, 2435 fully scanned sites
Vermont's state site, vermont.gov, ranks 13th of 51 state sites with a B. State rankings.
How Vermont county usability scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 1 fully scanned Vermont county sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 1 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Vermont average
- U.S. county 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 | 0 |
| 60 to 69 | 0 |
| 70 to 79 | 1 |
| 80 to 89 | 0 |
| 90 to 100 | 0 |
Vermont counties by usability grade
Each county with a site on our list is colored by that site's grade. Select a county to open its report. The table lists every site.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
- No site on our list
Vermont counties by usability grade, compared with all U.S. counties
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Vermont: 1 sites. U.S.: 2435 sites.
- 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 0% (0) | 100% (1) | 0% (0) |
| All U.S. counties | 1% (24) | 18% (436) | 81% (1,975) |
Top 3 Vermont county sites by usability score
#1 in Vermont · U.S. rank 8
Essex County, VT
C 76 usability
- Accessibility B
- Botability B
- Security A
- Usability C
What each check means
- 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.
- Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image on social media.
- Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
All Vermont county sites by usability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
essexcountyvermont.gov
Essex County, VT U.S. rank 8 |
13 of 17 checks pass | C |
About usability
Optimize content structure so users quickly find what they need.
Why it's important
Well-written pages help people understand laws, services, and procedures without confusion, reducing calls and office visits.
Risks
- Users cannot understand your information.
Guidance
What we use to grade usability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- U.S. Federal Website Standards
- Automated Readability Index (ARI)
- Flesch-Kincaid (FK)
- Plain Writing Act of 2010
- Google Search Central
- Web Vitals / Core Web Vitals
- Open Graph
Standards
- Page title
- Page description
- Readability
- Viewport meta tag
- www resolution
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
- First Contentful Paint (FCP)
- Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
- Time to First Byte (TTFB)
- Open Graph site name
- Open Graph type
- Open Graph title
- Open Graph description
- Open Graph URL
- Open Graph image
- Open Graph image alt
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this data
ScanGov scans the homepage of each county government site on our county list in Vermont. Scores come from the checks listed on standards.scangov.org. Sites were scanned between 9/16/2026 and 9/16/2026; 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. 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.