Criminal Justice Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 2,052 criminal justice schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 1,526 criminal justice 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 69.2% of the 2,052 criminal justice schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.8% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (4.7%), yellow (4.6%) and black (4.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on criminal justice school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
3. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 43.8%, of criminal justice school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on criminal justice school websites include Verdana (26.5%) and Helvetica (5.8%).

The largest criminal justice school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
3. Arizona State University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 963 criminal justice schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 90 YouTube channel subscribers. The criminal justice schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. University of Phoenix - Nashville Campus: 2,942 subscribers
3. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 2,357 subscribers

Exactly 1,147 criminal justice schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 987 Twitter account followers. The criminal justice schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
3. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers

Web Metrics

Although all criminal justice schools have websites, only about 25% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 75.1% of criminal justice school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The criminal justice schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
3. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links

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

1. Pima Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. California Lutheran University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Chippewa Valley Technical College: 121 HTML validation errors; 942 CSS validation errors
2. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
3. Lake - Sumter Community College: 62 HTML validation errors; 864 CSS validation errors