Ohio research universities: usability rankings

Usability 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.

F 58

Average usability score of 9 fully scanned Ohio research university sites

14th

of 17 states, ranked by average usability score

9 of 12

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

D 68

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

How Ohio usability 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 393
40 to 490
50 to 592
60 to 690
70 to 793
80 to 890
90 to 1001

Ohio research universities by usability 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)
Ohio11% (1)33% (3)56% (5)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Ohio research university sites by usability score

#1 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 2

Miami University-Oxford

A 93 usability

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

#2 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 13

Case Western Reserve University

C 75 usability

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

#3 in Ohio · U.S. education rank 14

Bowling Green State University-Main Campus

C 73 usability

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

Most common usability 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. Open Graph image alt89%
  2. First Contentful Paint (FCP)67%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%
  4. Open Graph description67%
  5. Open Graph image67%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt89%8
First Contentful Paint (FCP)67%6
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%6
Open Graph description67%6
Open Graph image67%6

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 Ohio by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 miamioh.edu
Miami University-Oxford U.S. rank 2 		15 of 16 checks pass A
2 case.edu
Case Western Reserve University U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
3 bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
3 uakron.edu
University of Akron Main Campus U.S. rank 14 		11 of 15 checks pass C
4 csuohio.edu
Cleveland State University U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
4 ohio.edu
Ohio University-Main Campus U.S. rank 23 		9 of 16 checks pass F
5 osu.edu
Ohio State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
5 wright.edu
Wright State University-Main Campus U.S. rank 33 		5 of 15 checks pass F
6 udayton.edu
University of Dayton U.S. rank 34 		5 of 16 checks pass F
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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