Hawaii college websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 10 public and 5 private college and university websites in Hawaii, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 15
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Hawaii college and university sites. All education sites

Public colleges and universities in Hawaii are ranked and averaged together; private nonprofit institutions are listed below with their own average.

F 48

Average usability score of 8 fully scanned Hawaii public college sites

22nd

of 48 states and territories, ranked by average usability score

8 of 10

Hawaii public college sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 2, so they're listed without grades

D 68

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

How Hawaii usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 8 fully scanned Hawaii public college sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Hawaii average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 291
30 to 392
40 to 492
50 to 591
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1000

Hawaii by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Hawaii: 8 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Hawaii
  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)
Hawaii0% (0)13% (1)88% (7)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Hawaii public college sites by usability score

#1 in Hawaii · U.S. education rank 4

University of Hawaii at Hilo

B 87 usability

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

#2 in Hawaii · U.S. education rank 17

University of Hawaii-West Oahu

D 68 usability

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

#3 in Hawaii · U.S. education rank 24

Windward Community College

F 53 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Hawaii public college sites

Share of the 8 fully scanned Hawaii public college 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. First Contentful Paint (FCP)75%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)75%
  4. Time to First Byte (TTFB)75%
  5. Open Graph description75%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%8
First Contentful Paint (FCP)75%6
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)75%6
Time to First Byte (TTFB)75%6
Open Graph description75%6

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.
  • Time to First Byte (TTFB). The server sends the first byte of content within 0.8 seconds. Slow server delays everything on your page.
  • Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.

Every education site with one problem

Hawaii public 4-year institutions by usability score

5 sites, 4 fully scanned. Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 hilo.hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii at Hilo U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
2 westoahu.hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii-West Oahu U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
3 hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii System Office U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
4 manoa.hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii at Manoa U.S. rank 31 		6 of 16 checks pass F
maui.hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii Maui College 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asks crawlers to wait longer than we can. Status 997 -

Hawaii public 2-year institutions by usability score

5 sites, 4 fully scanned. Part of the headline average.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 windward.hawaii.edu
Windward Community College U.S. rank 24 		8 of 15 checks pass F
2 kapiolani.hawaii.edu
Kapiolani Community College U.S. rank 27 		7 of 16 checks pass F
3 hawaii.hawaii.edu
Hawaii Community College U.S. rank 34 		5 of 16 checks pass F
4 kauai.hawaii.edu
Kauai Community College U.S. rank 37 		4 of 16 checks pass F
leeward.hawaii.edu
Leeward Community 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 -

Hawaii private nonprofit institutions by usability score

5 sites, 5 fully scanned, average usability score 76 (C). Ranked among themselves. Not part of the public average above.

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 htic.edu
Hawaii Tokai International College U.S. rank 2 		14 of 15 checks pass A
2 byuh.edu
Brigham Young University-Hawaii U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 pacrim.edu
Pacific Rim Christian University U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
4 chaminade.edu
Chaminade University of Honolulu U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
5 hpu.edu
Hawaii Pacific University U.S. rank 25 		8 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 10/27/2026 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 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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