Southern Conference websites: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 11 Southern Conference member websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 11
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Southern Conference member sites. All education sites

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

A 93

Average botability score of 10 fully scanned Southern Conference member sites

5th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average botability score

10 of 11

Southern conference 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 Southern Conference botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 10 fully scanned Southern Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Southern Conference average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 390
40 to 490
50 to 590
60 to 690
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1009

Southern Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Southern Conference: 10 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Southern 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)
Southern Conference90% (9)10% (1)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Southern Conference member sites by botability score

#1 in Southern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Citadel Military College of South Carolina

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Southern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Mercer University

A 100 botability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security C
  • Usability A
  • Readability A

#1 in Southern Conference · U.S. education rank 1

The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Southern Conference member sites

Share of the 10 fully scanned Southern 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. Link text30%
  2. Sitemap in robots.txt20%
  3. Robots valid10%
  4. GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type10%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Link text30%3
Sitemap in robots.txt20%2
Robots valid10%1
GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type10%1

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.
  • GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type. Homepage is marked up as an official government organization. Systems cannot verify you are an official government site.

Every education site with one problem

Southern Conference members by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 citadel.edu
Citadel Military College of South Carolina U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 mercer.edu
Mercer University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 utc.edu
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 vmi.edu
Virginia Military Institute U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 etsu.edu
East Tennessee State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 furman.edu
Furman University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 samford.edu
Samford University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 wcu.edu
Western Carolina University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 wofford.edu
Wofford College U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 tntech.edu
Tennessee Technological University U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
uncg.edu
University of North Carolina at Greensboro 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't scan your site because the page never finished loading in our browser. Status 994 -

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 10/28/2026 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.

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