Northwest Conference websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 9 Northwest Conference member websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 9
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Northwest Conference member sites. All education sites

Members of the Northwest Conference (NCAA Division III), from the NCAA membership directory. Conferences change membership every year; this list follows the directory's current academic year.

D 67

Average usability score of 9 fully scanned Northwest Conference member sites

15th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average usability score

9 of 9

Northwest conference member sites fully scanned

D 68

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

How Northwest Conference usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 9 fully scanned Northwest Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Northwest Conference average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 391
40 to 490
50 to 593
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 893
90 to 1001

Northwest Conference by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Northwest Conference: 9 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Northwest 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)
Northwest Conference11% (1)33% (3)56% (5)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Northwest Conference member sites by usability score

#1 in Northwest Conference · U.S. education rank 2

Pacific Lutheran University

A 93 usability

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

#2 in Northwest Conference · U.S. education rank 4

Whitman College

B 87 usability

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

#3 in Northwest Conference · U.S. education rank 9

Lewis & Clark College

B 81 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Northwest Conference member sites

Share of the 9 fully scanned Northwest 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. Open Graph image alt100%
  2. Open Graph site name78%
  3. Open Graph type56%
  4. Open Graph URL56%
  5. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)44%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%9
Open Graph site name78%7
Open Graph type56%5
Open Graph URL56%5
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)44%4

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 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.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.

Every education site with one problem

Northwest Conference members by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 plu.edu
Pacific Lutheran University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 whitman.edu
Whitman College U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 lclark.edu
Lewis & Clark College U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
3 whitworth.edu
Whitworth University U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
4 linfield.edu
Linfield University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
5 georgefox.edu
George Fox University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
5 willamette.edu
Willamette University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
6 pacificu.edu
Pacific University U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F
7 pugetsound.edu
University of Puget Sound U.S. rank 34 		5 of 16 checks pass F

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 11/7/2026 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. 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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