Ministry Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 274 ministry schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 238 ministry 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 67.9% of the 274 ministry schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (6.6%), blue (5.1%) and black (4.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on ministry school websites.

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

1. Liberty University: white 12% and red 5.1%
2. Grand Canyon University: white 14% and purple 2.2%
3. Harvard University: white 7.7% and grey 4.4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 39.4%, of ministry school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on ministry school websites include Verdana (18.6%) and Georgia (8.8%).

The largest ministry school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Liberty University: Georgia
2. Grand Canyon University: Arial
3. Harvard University: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 148 ministry schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 455 YouTube channel subscribers. The ministry schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
2. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
3. Emory University: 2,807 subscribers

Exactly 183 ministry schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,556 Twitter account followers. The ministry schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Yale University: 23,748 followers
3. Boston College: 15,524 followers

Web Metrics

Although all ministry schools have websites, only about 27% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 73.1% of ministry school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The ministry schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Northwest Nazarene University: 2,919 broken links
2. Anderson University: 1,799 broken links
3. Samford University: 1,714 broken links

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

1. Arizona Christian University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Southwestern College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology: 372 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Ashland University: 222 HTML validation errors; 128 CSS validation errors
3. Drew University: 0 HTML validation errors; 270 CSS validation errors