Big Ten Conference websites: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 16 Big Ten Conference member websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 16
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Big Ten Conference member sites. All education sites

Members of the Big Ten Conference (NCAA Division I), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.

B 87

Average botability score of 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites

11th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average botability score

15 of 16

Big ten conference member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades

B 89

Average botability score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites

How Big Ten Conference botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Big Ten Conference average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 591
60 to 691
70 to 791
80 to 890
90 to 10012

Big Ten Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Big Ten Conference: 15 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Big Ten Conference
  2. All education sites
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Big Ten Conference80% (12)7% (1)13% (2)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Big Ten Conference member sites by botability score

#1 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security C
  • Usability D
  • Readability F

#1 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 1

University of California-Los Angeles

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 1

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security B
  • Usability A
  • Readability F

Most common botability failures among Big Ten Conference member sites

Share of the 15 fully scanned Big Ten Conference member sites failing each check. A site can fail more than one check. Each check links to the sites failing it, or to its standard when we have no list yet.

  1. Link text47%
  2. Sitemap in robots.txt40%
  3. Sitemap status20%
  4. Sitemap XML20%
  5. Canonical7%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Link text47%7
Sitemap in robots.txt40%6
Sitemap status20%3
Sitemap XML20%3
Canonical7%1

What each check means

  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • 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.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.

Every education site with one problem

Big Ten Conference members by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 ucla.edu
University of California-Los Angeles U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 illinois.edu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 uoregon.edu
University of Oregon U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 msu.edu
Michigan State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 osu.edu
Ohio State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 purdue.edu
Purdue University-Main Campus U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 uiowa.edu
University of Iowa U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 umd.edu
University of Maryland-College Park U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 crk.umn.edu
University of Minnesota-Crookston U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 usc.edu
University of Southern California U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 northwestern.edu
Northwestern University U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
4 unl.edu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln U.S. rank 15 		7 of 11 checks pass D
5 washington.edu
University of Washington-Seattle Campus U.S. rank 19 		6 of 11 checks pass F
umich.edu
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 		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 college and university site on our higher education list. Scores come from the checks in the ScanGov standards. Sites were scanned between 10/27/2026 and 11/7/2026. Each site's report shows its own scan date. A site counts as fully scanned when its homepage loaded and sent us its page content. Averages, grade shares, failure rates, and ranks use fully scanned sites only. We could not fully scan 1 sites. They did not respond, blocked the scanner, or sent no page content. They appear in the table without grades, with their scan status, and are left out of every figure. Grades follow the ScanGov grade scale. Rank follows the ScanGov ranking method. The full dataset, with every county's raw results, is in the ScanGov data repository.

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