Georgia research universities: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 9 Georgia research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 9
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Georgia research university sites. All education sites

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

C 70

Average usability score of 9 fully scanned Georgia research university sites

6th

of 17 states, ranked by average usability score

9 of 9

Georgia research university sites fully scanned

D 68

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

How Georgia usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 9 fully scanned Georgia research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Georgia average
  • All education average
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Score rangeSites
0 to 90
10 to 190
20 to 290
30 to 391
40 to 491
50 to 591
60 to 690
70 to 793
80 to 891
90 to 1002

Georgia research universities by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Georgia research universities: 9 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Georgia
  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)
Georgia22% (2)44% (4)33% (3)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Georgia research university sites by usability score

#1 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 1

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

A 100 usability

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

#1 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 1

Mercer University

A 100 usability

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

#2 in Georgia · U.S. education rank 4

Emory University

B 87 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Georgia research university sites

Share of the 9 fully scanned Georgia 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)56%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)56%
  4. Open Graph description44%
  5. Open Graph image44%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt67%6
First Contentful Paint (FCP)56%5
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)56%5
Open Graph description44%4
Open Graph image44%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.
  • 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 description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.
  • Open Graph image. The page has a preview image for social media cards. Shared links have no image on social media.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Georgia by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus U.S. rank 1 		15 of 15 checks pass A
1 mercer.edu
Mercer University U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 emory.edu
Emory University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 augusta.edu
Augusta University U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
3 georgiasouthern.edu
Georgia Southern University U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
3 gsu.edu
Georgia State University U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
4 cau.edu
Clark Atlanta University U.S. rank 24 		8 of 15 checks pass F
5 kennesaw.edu
Kennesaw State University U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
6 uga.edu
University of Georgia U.S. rank 34 		5 of 16 checks pass F

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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