Medical Billing Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 296 medical billing schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 114 medical billing 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 93% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 79.7% of the 296 medical billing schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 6.4% use blue as the primary color on their websites. Purple (4.7%), grey (3.4%) and black (1.7%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on medical billing school websites.

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

1. Salt Lake Community College: yellow 6% and orange 1.9%
2. Colorado Technical University - Online: white 36% and grey 7.5%
3. Owens Community College: blue 43% and white 9.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 52.4%, of medical billing school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on medical billing school websites include Verdana (16.6%) and Tahoma (12.2%).

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

1. Salt Lake Community College: Arial
2. Colorado Technical University - Online: Lucida Sans Unicode
3. Owens Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 51 medical billing schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 63 YouTube channel subscribers. The medical billing schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. TechSkills - Charlotte: 1,646 subscribers
2. Everest University - Brandon: 422 subscribers
3. University of Alaska Fairbanks: 139 subscribers

Exactly 73 medical billing schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 404 Twitter account followers. The medical billing schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Everest University - Brandon: 3,945 followers
2. Davenport University: 3,695 followers
3. Tacoma Community College: 2,726 followers

Web Metrics

Although all medical billing schools have websites, only about 46% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 54.5% of medical billing school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The medical billing schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Atlanta Technical College: 1,443 broken links
2. Schoolcraft College: 1,322 broken links
3. South Georgia Technical College: 800 broken links

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

1. Kaplan College - San Diego: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Kaplan College - Vista: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Kaplan College - Merrillville: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Shawnee Community College: 377 HTML validation errors; 5 CSS validation errors
2. Southern Technical College: 299 HTML validation errors; 2 CSS validation errors
3. Miller - Motte College - Greenville: 254 HTML validation errors; 2 CSS validation errors