Sun Belt Conference websites: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 14 Sun Belt Conference member websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 14
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

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

A 91

Average botability score of 12 fully scanned Sun Belt Conference member sites

7th

of 96 conferences, ranked by average botability score

12 of 14

Sun belt conference member sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 2, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How Sun Belt Conference botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 12 fully scanned Sun Belt Conference member sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 12 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Sun Belt Conference average
  • All education average
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How Sun Belt Conference botability scores are distributed
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 791
80 to 894
90 to 1007

Sun Belt Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Sun Belt Conference: 12 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Sun Belt ConferenceA (90 to 100): 58% (7 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 42% (5 sites)
  2. All education sitesA (90 to 100): 71% (1,899 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 25% (660 sites)D to F (below 70): 5% (128 sites)
  • A (90 to 100)
  • B to C (70 to 89)
  • D to F (below 70)
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Sun Belt Conference by botability grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Sun Belt Conference58% (7)42% (5)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Sun Belt Conference member sites by botability score

#1 in Sun Belt Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Arkansas State University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Sun Belt Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Georgia Southern University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Sun Belt Conference · U.S. education rank 1

Louisiana Tech University

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Sun Belt Conference member sites

Share of the 12 fully scanned Sun Belt 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. Sitemap in robots.txt25% (3 of 12 sites)
  2. Link text25% (3 of 12 sites)
  3. Sitemap status17% (2 of 12 sites)
  4. Sitemap XML17% (2 of 12 sites)
  5. Canonical8% (1 of 12 sites)
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Most common botability failures among Sun Belt Conference member sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt25%3
Link text25%3
Sitemap status17%2
Sitemap XML17%2
Canonical8%1

What each check means

  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.
  • Sitemap XML. The sitemap file uses the required XML format. Search engines cannot read your sitemap.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.

Every education site with one problem

Sun Belt Conference members by botability score

Sun Belt Conference members ranked by botability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 astate.edu
Arkansas State University U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 georgiasouthern.edu
Georgia Southern University U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 latech.edu
Louisiana Tech University U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 marshall.edu
Marshall University U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 troy.edu
Troy University U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
1 usm.edu
University of Southern Mississippi U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
2 louisiana.edu
University of Louisiana at Lafayette U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
3 odu.edu
Old Dominion University U.S. rank 3
8 of 9 checks pass B
4 gsu.edu
Georgia State University U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
4 ulm.edu
University of Louisiana at Monroe U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
4 southalabama.edu
University of South Alabama U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
5 appstate.edu
Appalachian State University U.S. rank 11
8 of 11 checks pass C
coastal.edu
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asked us not to. Status 998 -
jmu.edu
Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 404 -

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 10/31/2026. 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 2 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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