Medical Assistant Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 1,437 medical assistant schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 793 medical assistant 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 75.4% of the 1,437 medical assistant schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 7.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (4.7%), black (3.2%) and yellow (3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on medical assistant school websites.

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

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
2. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
3. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.8%, of medical assistant school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on medical assistant school websites include Verdana (20.5%) and Tahoma (8.8%).

The largest medical assistant school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
2. Miami Dade College: Arial
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 426 medical assistant schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 117 YouTube channel subscribers. The medical assistant schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
2. Emory University: 2,807 subscribers
3. Duke University: 1,394 subscribers

Exactly 516 medical assistant schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 773 Twitter account followers. The medical assistant schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Yale University: 23,748 followers
2. University of Wisconsin - Madison: 16,729 followers
3. University of Florida: 15,558 followers

Web Metrics

Although all medical assistant schools have websites, only about 41% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 59.7% of medical assistant school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The medical assistant schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
3. Fisher College: 2,795 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on medical assistant school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The medical assistant 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. Eastern College of Health Vocations - Little Rock: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The medical assistant 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. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors