Biochemistry Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 534 biochemistry schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 516 biochemistry 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 62.4% of the 534 biochemistry schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 12.5% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.1%), yellow (6.7%) and black (6.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on biochemistry school websites.

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

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 42.1%, of biochemistry school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on biochemistry school websites include Verdana (23%) and Helvetica (10.1%).

The largest biochemistry school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Arizona State University: Arial
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 422 biochemistry schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 375 YouTube channel subscribers. The biochemistry schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
2. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
3. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers

Exactly 472 biochemistry schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,783 Twitter account followers. The biochemistry schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
3. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers

Web Metrics

Although all biochemistry schools have websites, only about 18% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 82.8% of biochemistry school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The biochemistry schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. University of Michigan - Dearborn: 5,490 broken links
2. Doane College - Crete: 4,754 broken links
3. Manhattanville College: 4,422 broken links

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

1. California Lutheran University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The biochemistry 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. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
3. Trinity College: 89 HTML validation errors; 538 CSS validation errors