Showing Empire 8 member sites. All education sites
Members of the Empire 8 (NCAA Division III), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.
B 86
Average overall score of 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites
6th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average overall score
11 of 12
Empire 8 member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades
B 85
Average overall score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites
How Empire 8 overall scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 11 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Empire 8 average
- All education average
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| 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 | 0 |
| 80 to 89 | 8 |
| 90 to 100 | 3 |
Empire 8 by overall grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Empire 8: 11 sites. All education: 2687 sites.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
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| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empire 8 | 27% (3) | 73% (8) | 0% (0) |
| All education sites | 25% (659) | 73% (1,965) | 2% (63) |
Empire 8 average score by indicator, compared with all education sites
Average of the 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites, score 0 to 100. The comparison covers 2687 fully scanned education sites.
- Empire 8
- All education
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| Indicator | Empire 8 average | All education average |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 92 | 91 |
| Botability | 92 | 89 |
| Security | 81 | 85 |
| Usability | 72 | 68 |
| Readability | 64 | 56 |
Top 3 Empire 8 member sites by overall score
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 11
Alfred University
A 90 overall
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability C
- Readability A
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 11
Houghton University
A 90 overall
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 11
SUNY Brockport
A 90 overall
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability C
- Readability A
Most common failures by indicator
The check Empire 8 member sites fail most often in each indicator. Each indicator page lists the top five.
- 36% (4 of 11 sites) fail this accessibility check: Links have a discernible name. Links have unique, descriptive text so users know where they go. More accessibility failures.
- 36% (4 of 11 sites) fail this botability check: Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. More botability failures.
- 91% (10 of 11 sites) fail this security check: X-Content-Type-Options. The site tells browsers not to guess the type of files it serves. More security failures.
- 100% (11 of 11 sites) fail this usability check: Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. More usability failures.
- 36% (4 of 11 sites) fail this readability check: Reading level. Page text reads at or below a 7th grade level so most users can understand it. More readability failures.
Empire 8 members by overall score
| Rank | Site | Indicator grades | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
alfred.edu
Alfred University U.S. rank 11 |
|
A |
| 1 |
houghton.edu
Houghton University U.S. rank 11 |
|
A |
| 1 |
brockport.edu
SUNY Brockport U.S. rank 11 |
|
A |
| 2 |
hartwick.edu
Hartwick College U.S. rank 12 |
|
B |
| 2 |
geneseo.edu
SUNY College at Geneseo U.S. rank 12 |
|
B |
| 3 |
elmira.edu
Elmira College U.S. rank 13 |
|
B |
| 4 |
utica.edu
Utica University U.S. rank 17 |
|
B |
| 5 |
keuka.edu
Keuka College U.S. rank 18 |
|
B |
| 5 |
sjf.edu
St. John Fisher University U.S. rank 18 |
|
B |
| 6 |
www2.naz.edu
Nazareth University U.S. rank 20 |
|
B |
| 7 |
sunypoly.edu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 21 |
|
B |
|
sage.edu
Russell Sage College |
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 10/25/2026 and 11/8/2026. 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.