Nurse Anesthetist Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 68 nurse anesthetist schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 62 nurse anesthetist 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 64.7% of the 68 nurse anesthetist schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.3% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (8.8%), yellow (7.4%) and purple (4.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on nurse anesthetist school websites.

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

1. Virginia Commonwealth University: green 7% and grey 6.2%
2. Wayne State University: grey 8.3% and orange 5.3%
3. University of Cincinnati - Main Campus: white 38% and black 9%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41.2%, of nurse anesthetist school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on nurse anesthetist school websites include Verdana (23.5%) and Helvetica (13.2%).

The largest nurse anesthetist school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Virginia Commonwealth University: Arial
2. Wayne State University: Verdana
3. University of Cincinnati - Main Campus: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 55 nurse anesthetist schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 368 YouTube channel subscribers. The nurse anesthetist schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Mayo School of Health Sciences: 3,951 subscribers
2. Case Western Reserve University: 2,054 subscribers
3. University of Pennsylvania: 2,012 subscribers

Exactly 55 nurse anesthetist schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,987 Twitter account followers. The nurse anesthetist schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Miami: 15,911 followers
2. Boston College: 15,524 followers
3. Texas Christian University: 13,107 followers

Web Metrics

Although all nurse anesthetist schools have websites, only about 14% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 86.8% of nurse anesthetist school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The nurse anesthetist schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Samford University: 1,714 broken links
2. Texas Wesleyan University: 1,540 broken links
3. Truman Medical Center School for Nurse Anesthesia: 1,192 broken links

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

1. University of Illinois at Springfield: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Detroit Mercy: 1 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans: 487 HTML validation errors; 9 CSS validation errors
2. University of Scranton: 0 HTML validation errors; 376 CSS validation errors
3. Central Connecticut State University: 0 HTML validation errors; 202 CSS validation errors