Colorado research universities: botability rankings

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

  • Sites: 5
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

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

B 88

Average botability score of 5 fully scanned Colorado research university sites

7th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

5 of 5

Colorado research university sites fully scanned

B 89

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

How Colorado botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 5 fully scanned Colorado 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.

  • Colorado average
  • All education average
View the data table
How Colorado 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 892
90 to 1003

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

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

  1. ColoradoA (90 to 100): 60% (3 sites)B to C (70 to 89): 40% (2 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)
View the data table
Colorado 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)
Colorado60% (3)40% (2)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Colorado research university sites by botability score

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

Colorado State University-Fort Collins

A 100 botability

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

#2 in Colorado · U.S. education rank 2

Colorado School of Mines

A 90 botability

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

#2 in Colorado · U.S. education rank 2

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Colorado research university sites

Share of the 5 fully scanned Colorado 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.txt60% (3 of 5 sites)
  2. Link text60% (3 of 5 sites)
View the data table
Most common botability failures among Colorado research university sites
CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt60%3
Link text60%3

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.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Colorado by botability score

Research universities in Colorado ranked by botability score
Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 colostate.edu
Colorado State University-Fort Collins U.S. rank 1
11 of 11 checks pass A
2 mines.edu
Colorado School of Mines U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
2 uccs.edu
University of Colorado Colorado Springs U.S. rank 2
10 of 11 checks pass A
3 colorado.edu
University of Colorado Boulder U.S. rank 7
9 of 11 checks pass B
3 du.edu
University of Denver 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 11/7/2026. 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. 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.

Plans Demo