Showing Ivy League sites. All education sites
The eight Ivy League universities.
B 86
Average botability score of 7 fully scanned Ivy League sites
4th
of 9 lists, ranked by average botability score
7 of 8
Ivy league 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 Ivy League botability scores are distributed
Smoothed distribution of the 7 fully scanned Ivy League sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.
Distribution of 7 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.
- Ivy League average
- All education average
View the data table
| Score range | Sites |
|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 0 |
| 10 to 19 | 0 |
| 20 to 29 | 0 |
| 30 to 39 | 0 |
| 40 to 49 | 0 |
| 50 to 59 | 0 |
| 60 to 69 | 0 |
| 70 to 79 | 0 |
| 80 to 89 | 4 |
| 90 to 100 | 3 |
Ivy League by botability grade, compared with all education sites
Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Ivy League: 7 sites. All education: 2687 sites.
- A (90 to 100)
- B to C (70 to 89)
- D to F (below 70)
View the data table
| Group | A (90 to 100) | B to C (70 to 89) | D to F (below 70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy League | 43% (3) | 57% (4) | 0% (0) |
| All education sites | 71% (1,899) | 25% (660) | 5% (128) |
Top 3 Ivy League sites by botability score
#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 1
Harvard University
A 100 botability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security B
- Usability A
- Readability F
#2 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 2
Brown University
A 90 botability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security C
- Usability D
- Readability F
#2 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 2
Cornell University
A 90 botability
- Accessibility A
- Botability A
- Security A
- Usability F
- Readability A
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.
- 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.
Every education site with one problem
- Education websites with sitemap problems: 1,031 of 2,650 fully scanned education sites (39%), with every site listed.
- Education websites with robots.txt problems: 95 of 2,629 fully scanned education sites (4%), with every site listed.
- Education websites that need JavaScript to show their content: 68 of 2,687 fully scanned education sites (3%), with every site listed.
Ivy League by botability score
| Rank | Site | Checks passed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
harvard.edu
Harvard University U.S. rank 1 |
11 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
brown.edu
Brown University U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 2 |
cornell.edu
Cornell University U.S. rank 2 |
10 of 11 checks pass | A |
| 3 |
home.dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College U.S. rank 7 |
9 of 11 checks pass | B |
| 3 |
princeton.edu
Princeton University U.S. rank 7 |
9 of 11 checks pass | B |
| 3 |
upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 7 |
9 of 11 checks pass | B |
| 3 |
yale.edu
Yale University U.S. rank 7 |
9 of 11 checks pass | B |
|
columbia.edu
Columbia University in the City of New York |
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 | - |
About botability
Help AI and search engines discover, crawl, and index your website.
Why it's important
Smart technology can better process and share public information, making services faster and more efficient for users.
Risks
- AI tools cannot find or understand your content.
Guidance
What we use to grade botability:
- 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
- The Web Robots Pages
- Schema.org
- sitemaps.org
- Google Search Central
Standards
- Crawlable
- Content available in document
- GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type
- Sitemap status
- Sitemap XML
- Robots valid
- Robots allowed
- Sitemap in robots.txt
- Canonical
- Link text
- hreflang
Grades/scores
ScanGov
About this ranking
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. 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.