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.
A 92
Average botability score of 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites
6th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average botability score
11 of 12
Empire 8 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 Empire 8 botability 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
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 | 0 |
| 80 to 89 | 1 |
| 90 to 100 | 10 |
Empire 8 by botability 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)
View the data table
| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empire 8 | 91% (10) | 9% (1) | 0% (0) |
| All education sites | 71% (1,899) | 25% (660) | 5% (128) |
Top 3 Empire 8 member sites by botability score
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
Alfred University
A 100 botability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability C
- Readability A
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
Elmira College
A 100 botability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability B
- Readability F
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
Houghton University
A 100 botability
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
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.
- Robots valid. The site's robots.txt file is written correctly so search engines can follow it. Search engines ignore crawling rules they cannot read.
- Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.
Every education site with one problem
- Education websites with sitemap problems: 1,031 of 2,650 fully scanned education sites (39%), with every site listed.
- Education websites with robots.txt problems: 95 of 2,629 fully scanned education sites (4%), with every site listed.
- Education websites that need JavaScript to show their content: 68 of 2,687 fully scanned education sites (3%), with every site listed.
Empire 8 members by botability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
alfred.edu
Alfred University U.S. rank 1 |
11 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
elmira.edu
Elmira College U.S. rank 1 |
11 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
houghton.edu
Houghton University U.S. rank 1 |
11 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
keuka.edu
Keuka College U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
www2.naz.edu
Nazareth University U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
sjf.edu
St. John Fisher University U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
brockport.edu
SUNY Brockport U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
geneseo.edu
SUNY College at Geneseo U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
sunypoly.edu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
utica.edu
Utica University U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 3 |
hartwick.edu
Hartwick College U.S. rank 7 |
9 of 11 checks pass | 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 botability
Help AI and search engines discover, crawl, and index your website.
Why it's important
Smart technology can better process and share public information, making services faster and more efficient for users.
Risks
- AI tools cannot find or understand your content.
Guidance
What we use to grade botability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- The Web Robots Pages
- Schema.org
- sitemaps.org
- Google Search Central
Standards
- Crawlable
- Content available in document
- GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type
- Sitemap status
- Sitemap XML
- Robots valid
- Robots allowed
- Sitemap in robots.txt
- Canonical
- Link text
- hreflang
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this ranking
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.