Respiratory Therapy Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 433 respiratory therapy schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 366 respiratory 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 95% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 68.1% of the 433 respiratory therapy schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 12.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.8%), black (5.3%) and yellow (3.5%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on respiratory therapy school websites.

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

1. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 47.6%, of respiratory therapy school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on respiratory therapy school websites include Verdana (24.2%) and Tahoma (6.2%).

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

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 231 respiratory therapy schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 75 YouTube channel subscribers. The respiratory therapy schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Kansas: 1,615 subscribers
2. University of Central Florida: 1,559 subscribers
3. Northeastern University: 1,091 subscribers

Exactly 266 respiratory therapy schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 847 Twitter account followers. The respiratory therapy schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers
2. University of Kansas: 8,453 followers
3. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: 7,171 followers

Web Metrics

Although all respiratory therapy schools have websites, only about 27% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 73.9% of respiratory therapy school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The respiratory therapy schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
2. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
3. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University: 2,283 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on respiratory therapy school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The respiratory therapy 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. Norwalk Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The respiratory therapy 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. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors