Law Enforcement Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 1,404 law enforcement schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 1,025 law enforcement 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 68.9% of the 1,404 law enforcement schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 12% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (4.7%), blue (4.3%) and black (4.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on law enforcement school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
3. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 43.2%, of law enforcement school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on law enforcement school websites include Verdana (26.9%) and Tahoma (6.3%).

The largest law enforcement school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
3. Arizona State University: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 626 law enforcement schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 89 YouTube channel subscribers. The law enforcement schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. University of Phoenix - Nashville Campus: 2,942 subscribers
3. Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus: 2,357 subscribers

Exactly 743 law enforcement schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 892 Twitter account followers. The law enforcement schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
3. Saint Leo University: 14,978 followers

Web Metrics

Although all law enforcement schools have websites, only about 26% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 74.7% of law enforcement school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The law enforcement schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
3. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links

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

The law enforcement 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. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
3. Lake - Sumter Community College: 62 HTML validation errors; 864 CSS validation errors