New York research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 19 New York research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 19
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing New York research university sites. All education sites

R1 and R2 universities in New York, public and private together.

B 85

Average botability score of 15 fully scanned New York research university sites

10th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

15 of 19

New york research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 4, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How New York botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 15 fully scanned New York research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • New York 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 692
70 to 793
80 to 890
90 to 10010

New York research universities by botability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. New York research universities: 15 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. New York
  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)
New York67% (10)20% (3)13% (2)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 New York research university sites by botability score

#1 in New York · U.S. education rank 1

New York University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in New York · U.S. education rank 1

Syracuse University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in New York · U.S. education rank 1

University at Albany

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among New York research university sites

Share of the 15 fully scanned New York 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.txt40%
  2. Sitemap status33%
  3. Sitemap XML33%
  4. Link text27%
  5. Canonical7%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt40%6
Sitemap status33%5
Sitemap XML33%5
Link text27%4
Canonical7%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.
  • 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.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in New York by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 nyu.edu
New York University U.S. rank 1 		7 of 7 checks pass A
1 syracuse.edu
Syracuse University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 albany.edu
University at Albany U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 binghamton.edu
Binghamton University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 clarkson.edu
Clarkson University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 cornell.edu
Cornell University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 fordham.edu
Fordham University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 rit.edu
Rochester Institute of Technology U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 stonybrook.edu
Stony Brook University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 liu.edu
Long Island University U.S. rank 9 		7 of 9 checks pass C
4 buffalo.edu
University at Buffalo U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
4 rochester.edu
University of Rochester U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
5 esf.edu
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry U.S. rank 14 		6 of 9 checks pass D
6 tc.columbia.edu
Teachers College at Columbia University U.S. rank 15 		7 of 11 checks pass D
columbia.edu
Columbia University in the City of New York 		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 -
ccny.cuny.edu
CUNY City College 		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 -
gc.cuny.edu
CUNY Graduate School and University Center 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We weren't able to fully scan your site. Status 403 -
newschool.edu
The New School 		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 10/27/2026 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 4 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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