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.
C 72
Average usability score of 11 fully scanned Empire 8 member sites
10th
of 96 conferences, ranked by average usability score
11 of 12
Empire 8 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 Empire 8 usability 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 | 3 |
| 60 to 69 | 1 |
| 70 to 79 | 2 |
| 80 to 89 | 3 |
| 90 to 100 | 2 |
Empire 8 by usability 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 | 18% (2) | 45% (5) | 36% (4) |
| All education sites | 11% (289) | 42% (1,124) | 47% (1,274) |
Top 3 Empire 8 member sites by usability score
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 2
Hartwick College
A 93 usability
- Accessibility A
- Botability B
- Security C
- Usability A
- Readability A
#1 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 2
Houghton University
A 93 usability
- Accessibility B
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
#2 in Empire 8 · U.S. education rank 9
Elmira College
B 81 usability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability B
- Readability F
What each check means
- Open Graph image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
- Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.
- Open Graph site name. The site has a name for social media and browser display. Site name missing in social media shares.
- Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.
- Open Graph URL. The page has a canonical URL for social media sharing. Shared links may point to wrong page.
Every education site with one problem
- Education websites missing Open Graph tags: 1,859 of 2,687 fully scanned education sites (69%), with every site listed.
Empire 8 members by usability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
hartwick.edu
Hartwick College U.S. rank 2 |
15 of 16 checks pass | A |
| 1 |
houghton.edu
Houghton University U.S. rank 2 |
15 of 16 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
elmira.edu
Elmira College U.S. rank 9 |
13 of 16 checks pass | B |
| 2 |
www2.naz.edu
Nazareth University U.S. rank 9 |
13 of 16 checks pass | B |
| 3 |
geneseo.edu
SUNY College at Geneseo U.S. rank 10 |
12 of 15 checks pass | B |
| 4 |
alfred.edu
Alfred University U.S. rank 13 |
12 of 16 checks pass | C |
| 5 |
brockport.edu
SUNY Brockport U.S. rank 14 |
11 of 15 checks pass | C |
| 6 |
keuka.edu
Keuka College U.S. rank 17 |
11 of 16 checks pass | D |
| 7 |
sjf.edu
St. John Fisher University U.S. rank 25 |
8 of 16 checks pass | F |
| 7 |
sunypoly.edu
SUNY Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 25 |
8 of 16 checks pass | F |
| 7 |
utica.edu
Utica University U.S. rank 25 |
8 of 16 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 usability
Optimize content structure so users quickly find what they need.
Why it's important
Well-written pages help people understand laws, services, and procedures without confusion, reducing calls and office visits.
Risks
- Users cannot understand your information.
Guidance
What we use to grade usability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- U.S. Federal Website Standards
- Google Search Central
- Web Vitals / Core Web Vitals
- Open Graph
Standards
- Page title
- Page description
- Viewport meta tag
- www resolution
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
- First Contentful Paint (FCP)
- Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
- Time to First Byte (TTFB)
- Open Graph site name
- Open Graph type
- Open Graph title
- Open Graph description
- Open Graph URL
- Open Graph image
- Open Graph image alt
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.