Utah research universities: usability rankings

Usability scores, grades, and the most common failures for 3 Utah research university websites, from ScanGov homepage scans.

  • Sites: 3
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Utah research university sites. All education sites

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

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No average: fewer than 5 Utah research university sites were fully scanned (3)

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Not ranked among states

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Utah research university sites fully scanned

D 68

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

How Utah usability scores are distributed

Smoothed distribution of the 3 fully scanned Utah research university sites, score 0 to 100. Height shows how many sites score near each value.

  • Utah 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 591
60 to 692
70 to 790
80 to 890
90 to 1000

Utah research universities by usability grade, compared with all education sites

Share of fully scanned sites in each grade band. Utah research universities: 3 sites. All education: 2687 sites.

  1. Utah
  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)
Utah0% (0)0% (0)100% (3)
All education sites11% (289)42% (1,124)47% (1,274)

Top 3 Utah research university sites by usability score

#1 in Utah · U.S. education rank 17

Brigham Young University

D 68 usability

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

#2 in Utah · U.S. education rank 21

Utah State University

D 60 usability

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

#3 in Utah · U.S. education rank 25

University of Utah

F 50 usability

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

Most common usability failures among Utah research university sites

Share of the 3 fully scanned Utah 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 alt100%
  2. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%
  3. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)67%
  4. Open Graph description67%
  5. Open Graph image67%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Open Graph image alt100%3
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)67%2
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)67%2
Open Graph description67%2
Open Graph image67%2

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.
  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). The page's main content loads within 2.5 seconds. Users wait too long and leave your page.
  • Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Page content stays in place as the page loads. Users click wrong buttons by mistake.
  • 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 Utah by usability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 byu.edu
Brigham Young University U.S. rank 17 		11 of 16 checks pass D
2 usu.edu
Utah State University U.S. rank 21 		9 of 15 checks pass D
3 utah.edu
University of Utah U.S. rank 25 		8 of 16 checks pass F

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 10/27/2026 and 11/7/2026. 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. 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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