Tennessee research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 7 Tennessee research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 7
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Tennessee research university sites. All education sites

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

A 90

Average botability score of 6 fully scanned Tennessee research university sites

6th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

6 of 7

Tennessee research university sites fully scanned. We couldn't fully scan 1, so they're listed without grades

B 89

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

How Tennessee botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 6 fully scanned Tennessee research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Tennessee 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 892
90 to 1004

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

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Tennessee research universities: 6 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Tennessee
  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)
Tennessee67% (4)33% (2)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Tennessee research university sites by botability score

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

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

A 100 botability

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

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

East Tennessee State University

A 90 botability

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

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

Middle Tennessee State University

A 90 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Tennessee research university sites

Share of the 6 fully scanned Tennessee 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. Link text67%
  2. Robots valid17%
  3. GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type17%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Link text67%4
Robots valid17%1
GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type17%1

What each check means

  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.
  • Robots valid. The site's robots.txt file is written correctly so search engines can follow it. Search engines ignore crawling rules they cannot read.
  • GovernmentOrganization Schema.org type. Homepage is marked up as an official government organization. Systems cannot verify you are an official government site.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Tennessee by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 utk.edu
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 etsu.edu
East Tennessee State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 mtsu.edu
Middle Tennessee State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 memphis.edu
University of Memphis U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University U.S. rank 3 		8 of 9 checks pass B
4 tntech.edu
Tennessee Technological University U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
tnstate.edu
Tennessee State University 		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 10/28/2026 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 1 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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