English Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 1,535 english schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 1,459 english 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 65.3% of the 1,535 english schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.4%), yellow (6.1%) and black (5.7%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on english school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 42%, of english school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on english school websites include Verdana (22.7%) and Helvetica (8.9%).

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Arizona State University: Arial
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 1,088 english schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 320 YouTube channel subscribers. The english schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 113,180 subscribers
2. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
3. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers

Exactly 1,270 english schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,675 Twitter account followers. The english schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
3. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers

Web Metrics

Although all english schools have websites, only about 21% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 79.7% of english school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The english schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links
2. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
3. Lasell College: 6,728 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on english school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The english 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. California Lutheran University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 0 HTML validation errors; 1,213 CSS validation errors
2. Alabama A & M University: 63 HTML validation errors; 905 CSS validation errors
3. Irvine Valley College: 0 HTML validation errors; 854 CSS validation errors