Allied Health Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 2,927 allied health schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 2,010 allied health schools have some social media presence, having accounts on at least one of the three major social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Of the schools that have a social media presence, the greatest number, almost 94% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 71.2% of the 2,927 allied health schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.5% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.3%), black (4.3%) and yellow (4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on allied health school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest allied health schools in the nation, are as follows:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
3. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 44.2%, of allied health school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on allied health school websites include Verdana (22.1%) and Tahoma (7.3%).

The largest allied health school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
3. Arizona State University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 1,196 allied health schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 127 YouTube channel subscribers. The allied health schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
2. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers
3. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers

Exactly 1,436 allied health schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,100 Twitter account followers. The allied health schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
3. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers

Web Metrics

Although all allied health schools have websites, only about 34% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 66.2% of allied health school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The allied health schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
3. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on allied health school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The allied health school websites with the cleanest websites, i.e., least number of HTML and CSS validation errors are:

1. Pima Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Eastern College of Health Vocations - Little Rock: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The allied health school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 0 HTML validation errors; 1,213 CSS validation errors
2. Chippewa Valley Technical College: 121 HTML validation errors; 942 CSS validation errors
3. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors