Texas research universities: botability rankings

Botability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 22 Texas research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 22
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Texas research university sites. All education sites

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

B 86

Average botability score of 21 fully scanned Texas research university sites

9th

of 17 states, ranked by average botability score

21 of 22

Texas 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 Texas botability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 21 fully scanned Texas research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Texas 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 694
70 to 793
80 to 891
90 to 10013

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

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Texas research universities: 21 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Texas
  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)
Texas62% (13)19% (4)19% (4)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Texas research university sites by botability score

#1 in Texas · U.S. education rank 1

Rice University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Texas · U.S. education rank 1

Southern Methodist University

A 100 botability

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

#1 in Texas · U.S. education rank 1

Texas A&M University-College Station

A 100 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Texas research university sites

Share of the 21 fully scanned Texas 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.txt38%
  2. Sitemap status33%
  3. Sitemap XML33%
  4. Link text29%
  5. Content available in document5%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt38%8
Sitemap status33%7
Sitemap XML33%7
Link text29%6
Content available in document5%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.
  • Content available in document. The page's main content loads without requiring JavaScript. Bots cannot read your content.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Texas by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 rice.edu
Rice University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 smu.edu
Southern Methodist University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 tamu.edu
Texas A&M University-College Station U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 tcu.edu
Texas Christian University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 tsu.edu
Texas Southern University U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 utdallas.edu
The University of Texas at Dallas U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 uh.edu
University of Houston U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
1 unt.edu
University of North Texas U.S. rank 1 		11 of 11 checks pass A
2 shsu.edu
Sam Houston State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 tarleton.edu
Tarleton State University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 tamucc.edu
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 tamuk.edu
Texas A&M University-Kingsville U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
3 uttyler.edu
The University of Texas at Tyler U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B
4 utep.edu
The University of Texas at El Paso U.S. rank 9 		7 of 9 checks pass C
5 baylor.edu
Baylor University U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
5 utsa.edu
The University of Texas at San Antonio U.S. rank 11 		8 of 11 checks pass C
6 txst.edu
Texas State University U.S. rank 14 		6 of 9 checks pass D
6 ttu.edu
Texas Tech University U.S. rank 14 		6 of 9 checks pass D
7 uta.edu
The University of Texas at Arlington U.S. rank 15 		7 of 11 checks pass D
7 utrgv.edu
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley U.S. rank 15 		7 of 11 checks pass D
pvamu.edu
Prairie View A & M University 		Not fully scanned, so not graded. We didn't scan your site because its robots.txt asks crawlers to wait longer than we can. Status 997 -

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 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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