California research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 25 California research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 25
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing California research university sites. All education sites

R1 and R2 universities in California, public and private together.

B 88

Average botability score of 22 fully scanned California research university sites

7th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

22 of 25

California research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 3, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How California botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 22 fully scanned California research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • California 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 793
80 to 896
90 to 10013

California research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. California research universities: 22 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. California
  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)
California59% (13)41% (9)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 California research university sites by botability score

#1 in California · U.S. education rank 1

Azusa Pacific University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in California · U.S. education rank 1

California State University-San Bernardino

A 100 botability

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

#1 in California · U.S. education rank 1

Loma Linda University

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among California research university sites

Share of the 22 fully scanned California 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. Link text45%
  2. Sitemap in robots.txt41%
  3. Sitemap status9%
  4. Sitemap XML9%
  5. Content available in document9%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Link text45%10
Sitemap in robots.txt41%9
Sitemap status9%2
Sitemap XML9%2
Content available in document9%2

What each check means

  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Sitemap in robots.txt. The robots.txt file links to the sitemap. Search engines take longer to find your pages.
  • Sitemap status. The sitemap file loads and returns a successful response. Search engines cannot find all your pages.
  • Sitemap XML. The sitemap file uses the required XML format. Search engines cannot read your sitemap.
  • Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in California by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 apu.edu
Azusa Pacific University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 csusb.edu
California State University-San Bernardino U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 llu.edu
Loma Linda University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 stanford.edu
Stanford University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 ucla.edu
University of California-Los Angeles U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 caltech.edu
California Institute of Technology U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 fresnostate.edu
California State University-Fresno U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 lmu.edu
Loyola Marymount University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 berkeley.edu
University of California-Berkeley U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 ucsd.edu
University of California-San Diego U.S. rank 2 		9 of 10 checks pass A
2 ucsb.edu
University of California-Santa Barbara U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 usc.edu
University of Southern California U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 uci.edu
University of California-Irvine U.S. rank 3 		8 of 9 checks pass B
4 csulb.edu
California State University-Long Beach U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 chapman.edu
Chapman University U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 cgu.edu
Claremont Graduate University U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 ucdavis.edu
University of California-Davis U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 sandiego.edu
University of San Diego U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
5 ucr.edu
University of California-Riverside U.S. rank 9 		7 of 9 checks pass C
6 csueastbay.edu
California State University-East Bay U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
6 sdsu.edu
San Diego State University U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
fullerton.edu
California State University-Fullerton 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -
ucmerced.edu
University of California-Merced 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -
ucsc.edu
University of California-Santa Cruz 		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 10/25/2026 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 3 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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