Christian Counseling Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 183 christian counseling schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 161 christian counseling 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 92% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 68.3% of the 183 christian counseling schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.4% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (6.6%), blue (4.9%) and yellow (4.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on christian counseling school websites.

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

1. Grand Canyon University: white 14% and purple 2.2%
2. Brigham Young University - Provo: grey 1.9% and blue 1.9%
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: green 7% and grey 6.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41%, of christian counseling school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on christian counseling school websites include Verdana (19.7%) and Helvetica (10.4%).

The largest christian counseling school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Grand Canyon University: Arial
2. Brigham Young University - Provo: Verdana
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 101 christian counseling schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 98 YouTube channel subscribers. The christian counseling schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Emory University: 2,807 subscribers
2. Biola University: 1,115 subscribers
3. Westminster Theological Seminary: 766 subscribers

Exactly 125 christian counseling schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,168 Twitter account followers. The christian counseling schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Boston College: 15,524 followers
2. Saint Leo University: 14,978 followers
3. Emory University: 7,774 followers

Web Metrics

Although all christian counseling schools have websites, only about 27% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 73.9% of christian counseling school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The christian counseling schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Northwest Nazarene University: 2,919 broken links
2. Denver Seminary: 925 broken links
3. Epic Bible College: 921 broken links

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

1. Arizona Christian University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Nazarene Bible College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Southwestern College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology: 372 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Ashland University: 222 HTML validation errors; 128 CSS validation errors
3. Madonna University: 26 HTML validation errors; 271 CSS validation errors