Atlanta, GA research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 5 Atlanta, GA research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 5
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

R1 and R2 universities in the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area, public and private together. Metro boundaries follow the Census definition, so a page can cross state lines.

B 88

Average botability score of 5 fully scanned Atlanta, GA research university sites

3rd

of 8 metro areas, ranked by average botability score

5 of 5

Atlanta, ga research university sites fully scanned

B 89

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

How Atlanta, GA botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 5 fully scanned Atlanta, GA research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

Distribution of 5 scores. The data table lists counts by score range.

  • Atlanta, GA average
  • All education average
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How Atlanta, GA 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 790
80 to 891
90 to 1004

Atlanta, GA research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Atlanta, GA research universities: 5 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Atlanta, GAA (90 to 100): 80% (4 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 20% (1 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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Atlanta, GA research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites
GroupA (90 to 100)B to C (70 to 89)D to F (below 70)
Atlanta, GA80% (4)20% (1)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Atlanta, GA research university sites by botability score

#1 in Atlanta, GA · U.S. education rank 2

Clark Atlanta University

A 90 botability

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

#1 in Atlanta, GA · U.S. education rank 2

Emory University

A 90 botability

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

#1 in Atlanta, GA · U.S. education rank 2

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Atlanta, GA research university sites

Share of the 5 fully scanned Atlanta, GA research university 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.txt80% (4 of 5 sites)
  2. Canonical20% (1 of 5 sites)
  3. Link text20% (1 of 5 sites)
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Most common botability failures among Atlanta, GA research university sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt80%4
Canonical20%1
Link text20%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.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Atlanta, GA by botability score

Research universities in Atlanta, GA ranked by botability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 cau.edu
Clark Atlanta University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
1 emory.edu
Emory University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
1 gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
1 kennesaw.edu
Kennesaw State University U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 gsu.edu
Georgia State University U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B

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. 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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