Electrician Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 497 electrician schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 361 electrician 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 68% of the 497 electrician schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.2%), black (5.2%) and green (3.8%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on electrician school websites.

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

1. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
2. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
3. Michigan State University: grey 3% and blue 1.8%

Font

The largest number, nearly 44.7%, of electrician school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on electrician school websites include Verdana (24.9%) and Tahoma (7%).

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

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. Michigan State University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 187 electrician schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 47 YouTube channel subscribers. The electrician schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Michigan State University: 1,365 subscribers
2. Johnson County Community College: 734 subscribers
3. College of Southern Maryland: 482 subscribers

Exactly 234 electrician schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 383 Twitter account followers. The electrician schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Michigan State University: 6,515 followers
2. Mountainland Applied Technology College: 1,938 followers
3. Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma City: 1,851 followers

Web Metrics

Although all electrician schools have websites, only about 31% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 69.5% of electrician school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The electrician schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
3. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on electrician school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The electrician 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. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The electrician 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. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors
3. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors