Texas research universities: usability rankings

Usability 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.

C 71

Average usability score of 21 fully scanned Texas research university sites

5th

of 17 states, ranked by average usability score

21 of 22

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

D 68

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

How Texas usability 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 493
50 to 590
60 to 698
70 to 791
80 to 898
90 to 1001

Texas research universities by usability 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)
Texas5% (1)43% (9)52% (11)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Texas research university sites by usability score

#1 in Texas · U.S. education rank 1

Texas Christian University

A 100 usability

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

#2 in Texas · U.S. education rank 4

Rice University

B 87 usability

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

#2 in Texas · U.S. education rank 4

Texas Southern University

B 87 usability

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

Most common usability 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. Open Graph image alt81%
  2. First Contentful Paint (FCP)71%
  3. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)71%
  4. Open Graph site name62%
  5. Open Graph type29%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt81%17
First Contentful Paint (FCP)71%15
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)71%15
Open Graph site name62%13
Open Graph type29%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 site name. The site has a name for social media and browser display. Site name missing in social media shares.
  • Open Graph type. The page declares its content type for social media cards. Social media shows wrong content type.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Texas by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 tcu.edu
Texas Christian University U.S. rank 1 		16 of 16 checks pass A
2 rice.edu
Rice University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
2 tsu.edu
Texas Southern University U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
2 utdallas.edu
The University of Texas at Dallas U.S. rank 4 		14 of 16 checks pass B
3 uta.edu
The University of Texas at Arlington U.S. rank 5 		13 of 15 checks pass B
4 smu.edu
Southern Methodist University U.S. rank 9 		13 of 16 checks pass B
5 tamucc.edu
Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
5 utrgv.edu
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
5 uh.edu
University of Houston U.S. rank 10 		12 of 15 checks pass B
6 tamuk.edu
Texas A&M University-Kingsville U.S. rank 13 		12 of 16 checks pass C
7 baylor.edu
Baylor University U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
7 utsa.edu
The University of Texas at San Antonio U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
8 tarleton.edu
Tarleton State University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
8 txst.edu
Texas State University U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
8 utep.edu
The University of Texas at El Paso U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
8 unt.edu
University of North Texas U.S. rank 18 		10 of 15 checks pass D
9 tamu.edu
Texas A&M University-College Station U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
9 uttyler.edu
The University of Texas at Tyler U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
10 shsu.edu
Sam Houston State University U.S. rank 26 		7 of 15 checks pass F
10 utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin U.S. rank 26 		7 of 15 checks pass F
11 ttu.edu
Texas Tech University U.S. rank 29 		6 of 15 checks pass F
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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