Paralegal Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 823 paralegal schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 545 paralegal 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 74.5% of the 823 paralegal schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 6.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.3%), black (5%) and yellow (3.9%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on paralegal school websites.

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

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
2. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
3. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 38.6%, of paralegal school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on paralegal school websites include Verdana (32.7%) and Helvetica (6.4%).

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

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
2. Miami Dade College: Arial
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 328 paralegal schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 66 YouTube channel subscribers. The paralegal schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Central Florida: 1,559 subscribers
2. Boston University: 1,194 subscribers
3. Johnson County Community College: 734 subscribers

Exactly 402 paralegal schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 703 Twitter account followers. The paralegal schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Boston University: 9,069 followers
2. George Washington University: 8,075 followers
3. Georgetown University: 7,343 followers

Web Metrics

Although all paralegal schools have websites, only about 30% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 70.8% of paralegal school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The paralegal schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links

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

1. Pima Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Norwalk Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Chippewa Valley Technical College: 121 HTML validation errors; 942 CSS validation errors
2. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
3. Gainesville State College: 73 HTML validation errors; 893 CSS validation errors