Emt Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 618 emt schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 526 emt 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 618 emt schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (5.7%), blue (5.5%) and yellow (5.3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on emt school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest emt 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. Northern Virginia Community College: white 11% and grey 4.6%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41.7%, of emt school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on emt school websites include Verdana (26.5%) and Tahoma (7.9%).

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

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. Northern Virginia Community College: Trebuchet

Social Presence

Exactly 313 emt schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 53 YouTube channel subscribers. The emt schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia Gorge Community College: 1,360 subscribers
2. Northeastern University: 1,091 subscribers
3. University of Maryland - Baltimore County: 736 subscribers

Exactly 372 emt schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 473 Twitter account followers. The emt schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. George Washington University: 8,075 followers
2. University of New Mexico - Main Campus: 6,799 followers
3. University of Toledo: 5,830 followers

Web Metrics

Although all emt schools have websites, only about 26% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 74.8% of emt school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The emt schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links

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

The emt 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. Lake-Sumter Community College: 62 HTML validation errors; 864 CSS validation errors
3. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors