Audio Engineering Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 229 audio engineering schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 197 audio engineering 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 98% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 66.8% of the 229 audio engineering schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (7%), yellow (5.7%) and blue (5.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on audio engineering school websites.

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

1. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
2. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
3. The University of Texas at Austin: white 9% and grey 4.4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.7%, of audio engineering school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on audio engineering school websites include Verdana (22.7%) and Tahoma (7.4%).

The largest audio engineering school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. The University of Texas at Austin: Bitstream Vera Sans

Social Presence

Exactly 127 audio engineering schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 168 YouTube channel subscribers. The audio engineering schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Full Sail University: 2,427 subscribers
2. The Art Institute of Atlanta: 1,885 subscribers
3. The University of Texas at Austin: 1,698 subscribers

Exactly 168 audio engineering schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,560 Twitter account followers. The audio engineering schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. The University of Texas at Austin: 16,128 followers
3. Johns Hopkins University: 14,870 followers

Web Metrics

Although all audio engineering schools have websites, only about 21% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 79.6% of audio engineering school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The audio engineering schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
2. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
3. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links

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

1. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Miami Lakes Educational Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The audio engineering school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. Alabama A & M University: 63 HTML validation errors; 905 CSS validation errors
2. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors
3. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors