Ohio research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 12 Ohio research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 12
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Ohio research university sites. All education sites

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

A 94

Average botability score of 9 fully scanned Ohio research university sites

2nd

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

9 of 12

Ohio research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 3, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How Ohio botability scores are distributed

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

  • Ohio 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 791
80 to 890
90 to 1008

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

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

  1. Ohio
  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)
Ohio89% (8)11% (1)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Ohio research university sites by botability score

#1 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 1

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 1

Case Western Reserve University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 1

Miami University-Oxford

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Ohio research university sites

Share of the 9 fully scanned Ohio 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.txt33%
  2. Content available in document11%
  3. GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type11%
  4. Link text11%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt33%3
Content available in document11%1
GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type11%1
Link text11%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.
  • Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.
  • GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type. Homepage is marked up as an official government organization. Systems cannot verify you are an official government site.
  • 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 Ohio by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 1 		9 of 9 checks pass A
1 case.edu
Case Western Reserve University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 miamioh.edu
Miami University-Oxford U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 uakron.edu
University of Akron Main Campus U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 udayton.edu
University of Dayton U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 csuohio.edu
Cleveland State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 osu.edu
Ohio State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 wright.edu
Wright State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 ohio.edu
Ohio University-Main Campus U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
kent.edu
Kent State University at Kent 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -
uc.edu
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 		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 -
utoledo.edu
University of Toledo 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We couldn't fully scan your site because it responded without any page content. Status 995 -

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 10/25/2026 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 3 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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