Southern Conference websites: usability rankings

Usability 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.

C 73

Average usability score of 10 fully scanned Southern Conference member sites

9th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average usability score

10 of 11

Southern conference 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 Southern Conference usability 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 491
50 to 592
60 to 692
70 to 790
80 to 892
90 to 1003

Southern Conference by usability 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 Conference30% (3)20% (2)50% (5)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Southern Conference member sites by usability score

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

Mercer University

A 100 usability

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

#2 in Southern Conference · U.S. education rank 2

East Tennessee State University

A 93 usability

  • Accessibility A
  • Botability A
  • Security D
  • Usability A
  • Readability A

#2 in Southern Conference · U.S. education rank 2

Furman University

A 93 usability

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

Most common usability 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. Open Graph image alt70%
  2. First Contentful Paint (FCP)60%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)60%
  4. Open Graph image40%
  5. Open Graph site name40%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt70%7
First Contentful Paint (FCP)60%6
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)60%6
Open Graph image40%4
Open Graph site name40%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.
  • First Contentful Paint (FCP). The page starts displaying content within 1.8 seconds. Users see blank screen and think site is broken.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image 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.

Every education site with one problem

Southern Conference members by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 mercer.edu
Mercer University U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 etsu.edu
East Tennessee State University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 furman.edu
Furman University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
3 citadel.edu
Citadel Military College of South Carolina U.S. rank 5 		13 of 15 checks pass B
4 vmi.edu
Virginia Military Institute U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
5 tntech.edu
Tennessee Technological University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
6 wcu.edu
Western Carolina University U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
7 samford.edu
Samford University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
7 wofford.edu
Wofford College U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
8 utc.edu
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
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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