Kansas Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 85 colleges in Kansas. Of these, 55 have a Facebook page, 30 have a Twitter account and 22 have a YouTube channel.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 52 of the 85 Kansas school websites use white as the primary color on their websites. The most commonly paired colors with white for school websites in Kansas are white (72.9%) and grey (65.9%).

Aside from white, other colors used as the predominant color on Kansas school websites include grey (17.6%), yellow (7.1%) and black (7.1%).

The colors used on the largest schools' websites in Kansas are as follows:

1. University of Kansas: white 27% and grey 1%
2. Kansas State University: white 27% and grey 1%
3. Johnson County Community College: white 21% and purple 6.3%

Font

The font of choice used on the largest number of Kansas school websites is Arial. Approximately 36.5% of Kansas schools use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other popular fonts used on Kansas school websites are Verdana (25.9%) and Bitstream Vera Sans (8.2%).

The following fonts are used on the websites for the largest Kansas schools:

1. University of Kansas: Helvetica
2. Kansas State University: Lucida Sans Unicode
3. Johnson County Community College: Arial

Social Presence

As mentioned above, 64.7% of Kansas schools have Facebook pages. On average, these schools update their Facebook status 3 times a week. And the average number of "likes" Kansas schools have is 5,462. The Kansas schools with the greatest number of Facebook "likes" are:

1. University of Kansas: 159,385 "likes"
2. Kansas State University: 59,374 "likes"
3. Pittsburg State University: 9,720 "likes"

In addition, 25.9% of Kansas schools have Twitter accounts. On average, these schools tweet updates 5 times a week. And, on average, Kansas schools have 820 Twitter followers. The Kansas schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Kansas: 8,453 followers
2. Kansas State University: 4,354 followers
3. Wichita Area Technical College: 941 followers

And 35.3% of Kansas schools have YouTube channels. On average, these schools have 86 posted videos. And, on average, Kansas schools have 118 subscribers to their YouTube channels. The Kansas schools with the greatest number of subscribers are:

1. University of Kansas: 1,615 subscribers
2. Johnson County Community College: 734 subscribers
3. Kansas State University: 505 subscribers

Web Metrics

The volume of traffic on Kansas school websites is average in comparison to traffic on school websites around the nation. The schools websites with the highest Alexa Rank in Kansas are:

1. University of Phoenix - Wichita Campus: Alexa Rank of 2,441
2. Kansas State University: Alexa Rank of 19,498
3. University of Kansas: Alexa Rank of 22,505

The Kansas school websites with the lowest Alexa Rank are:

1. Salina Area Technical College: Alexa Rank of 24,309,094
2. Central Baptist Theological Seminary: Alexa Rank of 20,380,290
3. North Central Kansas Technical College: Alexa Rank of 17,575,698