Pharmacy Technician Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 569 pharmacy technician schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 298 pharmacy technician 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 74.7% of the 569 pharmacy technician schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 7.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.7%), black (3.7%) and yellow (2.6%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on pharmacy technician school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
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 49.7%, of pharmacy technician school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on pharmacy technician school websites include Verdana (19.5%) and Tahoma (7.6%).

The largest pharmacy technician school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Miami Dade College: Arial
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 148 pharmacy technician schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 59 YouTube channel subscribers. The pharmacy technician schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. TechSkills - Charlotte: 1,646 subscribers
3. College of Southern Maryland: 482 subscribers

Exactly 190 pharmacy technician schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 516 Twitter account followers. The pharmacy technician schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. Everest University - Brandon: 3,945 followers
3. ICDC College: 3,846 followers

Web Metrics

Although all pharmacy technician schools have websites, only about 40% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 60.3% of pharmacy technician school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The pharmacy technician schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on pharmacy technician school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The pharmacy technician 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. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Kaplan College - Vista: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The pharmacy technician 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. Los Angeles ORT College - Los Angeles Campus: 68 HTML validation errors; 784 CSS validation errors
3. Los Angeles ORT College - Van Nuys Campus: 68 HTML validation errors; 784 CSS validation errors