Physical Therapy Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 253 physical therapy schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 234 physical 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 71.5% of the 253 physical therapy schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 8.3% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.7%), black (4.7%) and yellow (4.3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on physical therapy school websites.

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

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
2. University of Central Florida: white 46% and black 1.6%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 44.7%, of physical therapy school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on physical therapy school websites include Verdana (25.3%) and Helvetica (8.7%).

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

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
2. University of Central Florida: Arial
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 185 physical therapy schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 234 YouTube channel subscribers. The physical therapy schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
2. Mayo School of Health Sciences: 3,951 subscribers
3. Emory University: 2,807 subscribers

Exactly 198 physical therapy schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,461 Twitter account followers. The physical 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 Miami: 15,911 followers

Web Metrics

Although all physical therapy schools have websites, only about 15% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 85.1% of physical therapy school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The physical therapy schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
2. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 broken links
3. Northwest Nazarene University: 2,919 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on physical therapy school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The physical therapy 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. Wichita State University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Saint Louis University - Main Campus: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The physical therapy 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. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors