Clinical Psychology Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 195 clinical psychology schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 170 clinical psychology 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 95% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 70.8% of the 195 clinical psychology schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.8% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.1%), yellow (4.6%) and green (3.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on clinical psychology school websites.

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

1. University of Central Florida: white 46% and black 1.6%
2. The University of Texas at Austin: white 9% and grey 4.4%
3. University of Washington - Seattle Campus: white 11% and grey 1.7%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.2%, of clinical psychology school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on clinical psychology school websites include Verdana (19.5%) and Helvetica (10.3%).

The largest clinical psychology school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Central Florida: Arial
2. The University of Texas at Austin: Bitstream Vera Sans
3. University of Washington - Seattle Campus: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 131 clinical psychology schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 267 YouTube channel subscribers. The clinical psychology schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
2. The New School: 2,231 subscribers
3. Auburn University: 2,016 subscribers

Exactly 151 clinical psychology schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,785 Twitter account followers. The clinical psychology schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Auburn University: 17,795 followers
2. The University of Texas at Austin: 16,128 followers
3. Ohio University - Main Campus: 14,704 followers

Web Metrics

Although all clinical psychology schools have websites, only about 17% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 83.5% of clinical psychology school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The clinical psychology schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Marshall University: 1,132 broken links
2. George Washington University: 1,094 broken links
3. St. John's University - New York: 1,040 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on clinical psychology school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The clinical psychology 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. Loyola University - Baltimore: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Hofstra University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The clinical psychology 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. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors
3. University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth: 14 HTML validation errors; 310 CSS validation errors