Criminology Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 126 criminology schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 122 criminology 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 98% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 66.7% of the 126 criminology schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (8.7%), black (4.8%) and green (3.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on criminology school websites.

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

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41.3%, of criminology school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on criminology school websites include Verdana (23.8%) and Helvetica (11.9%).

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

1. Arizona State University: Arial
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 100 criminology schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 198 YouTube channel subscribers. The criminology schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers
2. Auburn University: 2,016 subscribers
3. University of Pennsylvania: 2,012 subscribers

Exactly 108 criminology schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,615 Twitter account followers. The criminology schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers
3. Auburn University: 17,795 followers

Web Metrics

Although all criminology schools have websites, only about 17% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 83.2% of criminology school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The criminology schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Lasell College: 6,728 broken links
2. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 broken links
3. University of Delaware: 1,405 broken links

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

1. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Saint Louis University - Main Campus: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Eastern Michigan University: 0 HTML validation errors; 1 CSS validation errors

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

1. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors
2. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: 0 HTML validation errors; 223 CSS validation errors
3. George Washington University: 74 HTML validation errors; 132 CSS validation errors