Hvac Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 638 hvac schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 465 hvac 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 94% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 66.5% of the 638 hvac schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.1%), black (5.6%) and yellow (3.8%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on hvac school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest hvac 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 hvac school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on hvac school websites include Verdana (23%) and Tahoma (9.6%).

The largest hvac 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 248 hvac schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 44 YouTube channel subscribers. The hvac schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Grand Rapids Community College: 1,166 subscribers
2. Johnson County Community College: 734 subscribers
3. Northern Virginia Community College: 487 subscribers

Exactly 301 hvac schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 391 Twitter account followers. The hvac schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Orange Coast College: 2,974 followers
2. Fresno City College: 2,297 followers
3. Mountainland Applied Technology College: 1,938 followers

Web Metrics

Although all hvac schools have websites, only about 33% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 67.9% of hvac school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The hvac schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on hvac school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The hvac 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. Intellitec College - Colorado Springs: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Lakes Educational Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The hvac 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. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Morton College: 404 HTML validation errors; 12 CSS validation errors