Nursing Assistant Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 474 nursing assistant schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 346 nursing assistant 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 91% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 70.5% of the 474 nursing assistant schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (5.5%), blue (4.6%) and black (4.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on nursing assistant school websites.

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

1. American River College: white 22% and grey 4.3%
2. Salt Lake Community College: yellow 6% and orange 1.9%
3. Florida State College at Jacksonville: white 15% and grey 3.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 39.2%, of nursing assistant school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on nursing assistant school websites include Verdana (25.3%) and Tahoma (8.2%).

The largest nursing assistant school's websites use the following fonts:

1. American River College: Times New Roman
2. Salt Lake Community College: Arial
3. Florida State College at Jacksonville: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 174 nursing assistant schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 36 YouTube channel subscribers. The nursing assistant schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. New Mexico State University - Grants: 847 subscribers
2. Johnson County Community College: 734 subscribers
3. Olympic College: 451 subscribers

Exactly 214 nursing assistant schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 365 Twitter account followers. The nursing assistant schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus: 3,724 followers
2. Mountainland Applied Technology College: 1,938 followers
3. PCI Health Training Center: 1,748 followers

Web Metrics

Although all nursing assistant schools have websites, only about 35% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 65.2% of nursing assistant school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The nursing assistant schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Independence Community College: 6,000 broken links
3. Atlanta Technical College: 1,443 broken links

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

1. Miami Lakes Educational Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Seminole State College of Florida: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Suwannee-Hamilton Technical Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors
2. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Morton College: 404 HTML validation errors; 12 CSS validation errors