Big Ten Conference websites: usability rankings

Usability 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.

D 65

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

17th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average usability score

15 of 16

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

D 68

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

How Big Ten Conference usability 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 393
40 to 491
50 to 591
60 to 694
70 to 791
80 to 892
90 to 1003

Big Ten Conference by usability 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 Conference20% (3)20% (3)60% (9)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Big Ten Conference member sites by usability score

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

Purdue University-Main Campus

A 100 usability

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

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

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A 100 usability

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

#2 in Big Ten Conference · U.S. education rank 2

University of Southern California

A 93 usability

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

Most common usability 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. First Contentful Paint (FCP)67%
  2. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%
  3. Open Graph image alt67%
  4. Open Graph type60%
  5. Open Graph image53%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
First Contentful Paint (FCP)67%10
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%10
Open Graph image alt67%10
Open Graph type60%9
Open Graph image53%8

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 alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
  • Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image on social media.

Every education site with one problem

Big Ten Conference members by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 purdue.edu
Purdue University-Main Campus U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
1 illinois.edu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 usc.edu
University of Southern California U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
3 uiowa.edu
University of Iowa U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
3 umd.edu
University of Maryland-College Park U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
4 ucla.edu
University of California-Los Angeles U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
5 psu.edu
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
5 washington.edu
University of Washington-Seattle Campus U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
5 wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
6 crk.umn.edu
University of Minnesota-Crookston U.S. rank 20 		10 of 16 checks pass D
7 northwestern.edu
Northwestern University U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
8 uoregon.edu
University of Oregon U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
9 osu.edu
Ohio State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
9 unl.edu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
10 msu.edu
Michigan State University U.S. rank 34 		5 of 16 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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