Mental Health Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 243 mental health schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 180 mental health 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 65.4% of the 243 mental health schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 17.3% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (6.2%), black (4.9%) and blue (2.5%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on mental health school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
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 51.4%, of mental health school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on mental health school websites include Verdana (22.6%) and Helvetica (7%).

The largest mental health school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Miami Dade College: Arial
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 126 mental health schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 125 YouTube channel subscribers. The mental health schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. Johns Hopkins University: 1,214 subscribers
3. Gallaudet University: 644 subscribers

Exactly 147 mental health schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,620 Twitter account followers. The mental health schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. University of Miami: 15,911 followers
3. University of Florida: 15,558 followers

Web Metrics

Although all mental health schools have websites, only about 23% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 77.8% of mental health school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The mental health schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
2. Blue Ridge Community College: 6,741 broken links
3. George Washington University: 1,094 broken links

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

1. Housatonic Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Norwalk Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The mental health 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. Elgin Community College: 42 HTML validation errors; 273 CSS validation errors
3. San Jacinto Community College: 8 HTML validation errors; 285 CSS validation errors