Medical Coding Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 540 medical coding schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 308 medical coding 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 75.2% of the 540 medical coding schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 8.5% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (3.9%), blue (3.9%) and yellow (3.9%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on medical coding school websites.

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

1. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
2. Tarrant County College District: white 18% and yellow 4%
3. Austin Community College District: white 16% and blue 6.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 42.6%, of medical coding school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on medical coding school websites include Verdana (20%) and Tahoma (9.1%).

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

1. Houston Community College: Arial
2. Tarrant County College District: Arial
3. Austin Community College District: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 162 medical coding schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 41 YouTube channel subscribers. The medical coding schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. TechSkills - Charlotte: 1,646 subscribers
2. Olympic College: 451 subscribers
3. Everest Institute - Rochester: 422 subscribers

Exactly 195 medical coding schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 378 Twitter account followers. The medical coding schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Drexel University: 5,220 followers
2. Davenport University: 3,695 followers
3. Rasmussen College - Minnesota: 2,077 followers

Web Metrics

Although all medical coding schools have websites, only about 41% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 59.3% of medical coding school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The medical coding 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. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links

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

1. Kaplan College - Vista: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Intellitec College - Grand Junction: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Heart of Georgia Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Spoon River College: 68 HTML validation errors; 871 CSS validation errors
2. Chisholm Trail Technology Center: 117 HTML validation errors; 494 CSS validation errors
3. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors