Ivy League websites: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 8 Ivy League websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 8
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Ivy League sites. All education sites

The eight Ivy League universities.

C 74

Average usability score of 7 fully scanned Ivy League sites

1st

of 9 lists, ranked by average usability score

7 of 8

Ivy league 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 Ivy League usability 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.

  • Ivy League 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 592
60 to 692
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1002

Ivy League by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Ivy League: 7 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Ivy League
  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)
Ivy League29% (2)14% (1)57% (4)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Ivy League sites by usability score

#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 2

Harvard University

A 93 usability

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

#1 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 2

Princeton University

A 93 usability

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

#2 in Ivy League · U.S. education rank 4

Yale University

B 87 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Ivy League sites

Share of the 7 fully scanned Ivy League 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 alt86%
  2. Open Graph description57%
  3. Open Graph site name57%
  4. Open Graph type57%
  5. Open Graph URL57%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt86%6
Open Graph description57%4
Open Graph site name57%4
Open Graph type57%4
Open Graph URL57%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.
  • Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description 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.
  • Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.
  • Open Graph URL. The page has a canonical URL for social media sharing. Shared links may point to wrong page.

Every education site with one problem

Ivy League by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 harvard.edu
Harvard University U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
1 princeton.edu
Princeton University U.S. rank 2 		14 of 15 checks pass A
2 yale.edu
Yale University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 brown.edu
Brown University U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
3 upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
4 cornell.edu
Cornell University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
4 home.dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
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 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.

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