Wisconsin research universities: botability rankings

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

  • Sites: 3
  • Last scan: 11/8/2026

Showing Wisconsin research university sites. All education sites

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

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

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Not ranked among states

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Wisconsin research university sites fully scanned

B 89

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

How Wisconsin botability scores are distributed

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

  • Wisconsin 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 891
90 to 1002

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

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

  1. Wisconsin
  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)
Wisconsin67% (2)33% (1)0% (0)
All education sites71% (1,899)25% (660)5% (128)

Top 3 Wisconsin research university sites by botability score

#1 in Wisconsin · U.S. education rank 2

Marquette University

A 90 botability

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

#1 in Wisconsin · U.S. education rank 2

University of Wisconsin-Madison

A 90 botability

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

#2 in Wisconsin · U.S. education rank 7

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

B 81 botability

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

Most common botability failures among Wisconsin research university sites

Share of the 3 fully scanned Wisconsin 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.txt67%
  2. Canonical33%
  3. Link text33%
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CheckShare failingSites failing
Sitemap in robots.txt67%2
Canonical33%1
Link text33%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.
  • Canonical. Each page declares a preferred URL so search engines show the right link. Search rankings split across duplicate pages.
  • Link text. Links use descriptive text that tells users and search engines where they go. Users cannot tell where links go.

Every education site with one problem

Research universities in Wisconsin by botability score

Rank Site Checks passed Grade
1 marquette.edu
Marquette University U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
1 wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin-Madison U.S. rank 2 		10 of 11 checks pass A
2 uwm.edu
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee U.S. rank 7 		9 of 11 checks pass B

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. 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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