Gunsmithing Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 10 gunsmithing schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 9 gunsmithing 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 100% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 70% of the 10 gunsmithing schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 20% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (10%) is another color commonly used as the primary color on gunsmithing school websites.

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

1. Yavapai College: yellow 18%
2. Piedmont Technical College: white 21% and grey 10.5%
3. Piedmont Community College: white 10% and green 3.8%

Font

The largest number, nearly 60%, of gunsmithing school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on gunsmithing school websites include Verdana (20%) and Helvetica (10%).

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

1. Yavapai College: Arial
2. Piedmont Technical College: Arial
3. Piedmont Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 5 gunsmithing schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 28 YouTube channel subscribers. The gunsmithing schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Montgomery Community College: 65 subscribers
2. Yavapai College: 57 subscribers
3. Pine Technical College: 9 subscribers

Exactly 4 gunsmithing schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 92 Twitter account followers. The gunsmithing schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Pine Technical College: 191 followers
2. Montgomery Community College: 132 followers
3. Piedmont Community College: 29 followers

Web Metrics

Although all gunsmithing schools have websites, only about 20% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 80% of gunsmithing school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The gunsmithing schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Pine Technical College: 450 broken links
2. Piedmont Technical College: 251 broken links
3. Piedmont Community College: 129 broken links

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

1. Pennsylvania Gunsmith School: 1 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Piedmont Technical College: 2 HTML validation errors; 7 CSS validation errors
3. Montgomery Community College: 12 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Pine Technical College: 31 HTML validation errors; 155 CSS validation errors
2. Piedmont Community College: 117 HTML validation errors; 60 CSS validation errors
3. Yavapai College: 85 HTML validation errors; 34 CSS validation errors