Mississippi research universities: usability rankings

Usability 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

D 68

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

How Mississippi usability 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 491
50 to 591
60 to 691
70 to 790
80 to 891
90 to 1000

Mississippi research universities by usability 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)
Mississippi0% (0)25% (1)75% (3)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Mississippi research university sites by usability score

#1 in Mississippi · U.S. education rank 10

Mississippi State University

B 80 usability

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

#2 in Mississippi · U.S. education rank 18

Jackson State University

D 66 usability

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

#3 in Mississippi · U.S. education rank 23

University of Mississippi

F 56 usability

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

Most common usability 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. First Contentful Paint (FCP)75%
  2. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)75%
  3. Open Graph image75%
  4. Open Graph image alt75%
  5. Open Graph description50%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
First Contentful Paint (FCP)75%3
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)75%3
Open Graph image75%3
Open Graph image alt75%3
Open Graph description50%2

What each check means

  • 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 image alt. The social media preview image has alt text for screen readers. Screen readers cannot describe shared images.
  • Open Graph description. The page has a description for social media previews. Shared links have no description on social media.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Mississippi by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 msstate.edu
Mississippi State University U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
2 jsums.edu
Jackson State University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
3 olemiss.edu
University of Mississippi U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
4 usm.edu
University of Southern Mississippi U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 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 10/27/2026 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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