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.
D 64
Average readability score of 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites
12th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average readability score
11 of 12
Empire 8 member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades
F 56
Average readability score of all 2,687 fully scanned education sites
How Empire 8 readability 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 | 4 |
| 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 | 0 |
| 90 to 100 | 7 |
Empire 8 by readability 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 | 64% (7) | 0% (0) | 36% (4) |
| All education sites | 53% (1,425) | 0% (0) | 41% (1,110) |
Top 3 Empire 8 member sites by readability score
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
Alfred University
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability C
- Readability A
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
Hartwick College
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability B
- Security C
- Usability A
- Readability A
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 1
St. John Fisher University
A 100 readability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability F
- Readability A
What each check means
- Reading level. Page text reads at or below a 7th grade level so most users can understand it. Users struggle to understand your content.
Every education site with one problem
- Education websites that are hard to read: 1,110 of 2,535 fully scanned education sites (44%), with every site listed.
Empire 8 members by readability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
alfred.edu
Alfred University U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
hartwick.edu
Hartwick College U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
sjf.edu
St. John Fisher University U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
brockport.edu
SUNY Brockport U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
geneseo.edu
SUNY College at Geneseo U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
sunypoly.edu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
utica.edu
Utica University U.S. rank 1 |
1 of 1 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
elmira.edu
Elmira College U.S. rank 66 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
houghton.edu
Houghton University U.S. rank 46 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
keuka.edu
Keuka College U.S. rank 118 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
| 2 |
www2.naz.edu
Nazareth University U.S. rank 142 |
0 of 1 checks pass | F |
|
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 readability
Write content at a reading level most users can understand.
Why it's important
Plain language helps people understand services and procedures the first time, reducing calls, errors and office visits.
Risks
- Users cannot understand your content.
Guidance
What we use to grade readability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- Automated Readability Index (ARI)
- Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
- U.S. Federal Website Standards
- Plain Writing Act of 2010
Standards
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.