Mississippi research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 4 Mississippi research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 4
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Mississippi research university sites. All education sites

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

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No average: fewer than 5 Mississippi research university sites were fully scanned (4)

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Not ranked among states

4 of 4

Mississippi research university sites fully scanned

B 89

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

How Mississippi botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 4 fully scanned Mississippi research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Mississippi 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 891
90 to 1003

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

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Mississippi research universities: 4 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Mississippi
  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)
Mississippi75% (3)25% (1)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Mississippi research university sites by botability score

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

University of Southern Mississippi

A 100 botability

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

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

Mississippi State University

A 90 botability

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

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

University of Mississippi

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Mississippi research university sites

Share of the 4 fully scanned Mississippi 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.txt50%
  2. Link text25%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt50%2
Link text25%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.
  • 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 Mississippi by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 usm.edu
University of Southern Mississippi U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 msstate.edu
Mississippi State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 olemiss.edu
University of Mississippi U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 jsums.edu
Jackson State University U.S. rank 3 		8 of 9 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 10/27/2026 and 10/28/2026. 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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