Nurse Practitioner Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 354 nurse practitioner schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 314 nurse practitioner 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 95% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 60.2% of the 354 nurse practitioner schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 18.1% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (7.1%), yellow (5.6%) and black (3.7%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on nurse practitioner school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
3. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%

Font

The largest number, nearly 46.3%, of nurse practitioner school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on nurse practitioner school websites include Verdana (24.6%) and Helvetica (6.8%).

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Arizona State University: Arial
3. Miami Dade College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 249 nurse practitioner schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 313 YouTube channel subscribers. The nurse practitioner schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
2. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
3. Mayo School of Health Sciences: 3,951 subscribers

Exactly 276 nurse practitioner schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,294 Twitter account followers. The nurse practitioner schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
3. Yale University: 23,748 followers

Web Metrics

Although all nurse practitioner schools have websites, only about 19% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 81.3% of nurse practitioner school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The nurse practitioner schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
2. Anderson University: 1,799 broken links
3. University of Houston - Victoria: 1,726 broken links

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

1. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Illinois at Springfield: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
2. Sacred Heart University: 556 HTML validation errors; 65 CSS validation errors
3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans: 487 HTML validation errors; 9 CSS validation errors