Carpentry Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 337 carpentry schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 254 carpentry 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 93% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 66.5% of the 337 carpentry schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (8%), black (5.3%) and yellow (3.6%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on carpentry school websites.

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

1. College of Southern Nevada: white 47% and blue 6.2%
2. Austin Community College District: white 16% and blue 6.2%
3. American River College: white 22% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 42.7%, of carpentry school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on carpentry school websites include Verdana (24.6%) and Tahoma (7.4%).

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

1. College of Southern Nevada: Arial
2. Austin Community College District: Arial
3. American River College: Times New Roman

Social Presence

Exactly 132 carpentry schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 47 YouTube channel subscribers. The carpentry schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. New Mexico State University - Grants: 847 subscribers
2. California College of the Arts: 639 subscribers
3. Rochester Institute of Technology: 567 subscribers

Exactly 166 carpentry schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 413 Twitter account followers. The carpentry schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Rhode Island School of Design: 4,381 followers
2. California College of the Arts: 2,752 followers
3. El Camino Community College District: 1,728 followers

Web Metrics

Although all carpentry schools have websites, only about 32% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 68.9% of carpentry school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The carpentry schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 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 carpentry school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The carpentry school websites with the cleanest websites, i.e., least number of HTML and CSS validation errors are:

1. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Gavilan College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Gwinnett Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors
2. Alexandria Technical & Community College: 14 HTML validation errors; 516 CSS validation errors
3. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors