Occupational Therapy Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 315 occupational therapy schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 279 occupational therapy 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 70.8% of the 315 occupational therapy schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 7.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (7.6%), blue (5.1%) and black (3.5%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on occupational therapy school websites.

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

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
2. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 43.2%, of occupational therapy school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on occupational therapy school websites include Verdana (27.6%) and Helvetica (8.9%).

The largest occupational therapy school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 206 occupational therapy schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 128 YouTube channel subscribers. The occupational therapy schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
2. University of Kansas: 1,615 subscribers
3. West Virginia University: 1,555 subscribers

Exactly 227 occupational therapy schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,547 Twitter account followers. The occupational therapy schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers
2. University of Wisconsin - Madison: 16,729 followers
3. University of Florida: 15,558 followers

Web Metrics

Although all occupational therapy schools have websites, only about 20% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 80.4% of occupational therapy school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The occupational therapy schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links
2. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
3. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 broken links

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

1. Monterey Peninsula College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Housatonic Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. John A Logan College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Sacred Heart University: 556 HTML validation errors; 65 CSS validation errors
2. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans: 487 HTML validation errors; 9 CSS validation errors