Cosmetology Schools in Illinois Site Evaluation

There are a total of 77 cosmetology schools in Illinois state. With 27,083 students, College of DuPage is the largest cosmetology school in the state of Illinois.

College of DuPage is a social media - savvy school with not only a website, but also a Facebook page and YouTube channel. College of DuPage has 2,904 "likes" on Facebook and 202 subscribers on YouTube.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 43 of the 77 cosmetology schools with websites use white as the primary color on their websites. Another color used as the predominant color on Illinois cosmetology school websites is grey (14.3%).

The colors used on the websites for the largest cosmetology schools in Illinois are as follows:

1. College of DuPage: white 25% and grey 2.5%
2. City Colleges of Chicago - Harry S Truman College: white 22% and green 4.2%
3. John A Logan College: white 22% and grey 3.3%

Font

In Illinois, the most popular font style on cosmetology school websites is Verdana. Approximately 37.7% of cosmetology schools in Illinois use Verdana as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on cosmetology school websites include Arial (33.8%) and Tahoma (14.3%).

The largest Illinois cosmetology schools' websites use the following fonts:

1. College of DuPage: Verdana
2. City Colleges of Chicago - Harry S Truman College: Arial
3. John A Logan College: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 29 cosmetology schools in Illinois have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 1,086 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The Illinois cosmetology schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:

1. Pivot Point Beauty School - Bloomingdale: 6,264 "likes"
2. Lake Land College: 2,957 "likes"
3. Tricoci University of Beauty Culture - Bridgeview: 2,920 "likes"

Exactly 9 cosmetology schools in Illinois have Youtube channels. On average, each of these schools has 52 Youtube channel subscribers. The Illinois cosmetology schools with the greatest number of Youtube channel subscribers are:

1. College of DuPage: 202 subscribers
2. Pivot Point Beauty School - Bloomingdale: 140 subscribers
3. Cosmetology & Spa Institute: 49 subscribers

The Illinois cosmetology schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:

1. College of DuPage: 22 Delicious bookmarks
2. Lincoln College: 15 Delicious bookmarks
3. Pivot Point Beauty School - Bloomingdale: 11 Delicious bookmarks

Web Metrics

Of all of the Illinois cosmetology school websites, the one that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to Unity Cosmetology College. This is indicated by the fact that Unity Cosmetology College's site has a Compete Rank of 12,682, the highest Compete Rank of cosmetology school websites in Illinois.

And the Illinois cosmetology school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to College of DuPage. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 66.9.

It is interesting to compare this data with the statistics for the largest cosmetology schools in Illinois:

School	Compete Rank	SEOMoz Page Authority
College of DuPage	17,360	66.9
City Colleges of Chicago - Harry S Truman College	125,771	45.8
John A Logan College	84,715	53.6