Houston, TX research universities: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 4 Houston, TX research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 4
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Houston, TX research university sites. All education sites

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

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No average: fewer than 5 Houston, TX research university sites were fully scanned (3)

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Not ranked among metro areas

3 of 4

Houston, tx research university 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 Houston, TX usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 3 fully scanned Houston, TX research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Houston, TX 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 590
60 to 690
70 to 790
80 to 893
90 to 1000

Houston, TX research universities by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Houston, TX research universities: 3 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Houston, TX
  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)
Houston, TX0% (0)100% (3)0% (0)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Houston, TX research university sites by usability score

#1 in Houston, TX · U.S. education rank 4

Rice University

B 87 usability

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

#1 in Houston, TX · U.S. education rank 4

Texas Southern University

B 87 usability

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

#2 in Houston, TX · U.S. education rank 10

University of Houston

B 80 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Houston, TX research university sites

Share of the 3 fully scanned Houston, TX 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. Open Graph image alt67%
  2. First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)33%
  4. Open Graph image33%
  5. Open Graph site name33%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt67%2
First Contentful Paint (FCP)33%1
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)33%1
Open Graph image33%1
Open Graph site name33%1

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.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image 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.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Houston, TX by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 rice.edu
Rice University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
1 tsu.edu
Texas Southern University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
2 uh.edu
University of Houston U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
pvamu.edu
Prairie View A & M University 		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 -

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 11/7/2026. 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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