Sound Engineering Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 98 sound engineering schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 84 sound engineering 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 98% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 67.3% of the 98 sound engineering schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (9.2%), blue (7.1%) and green (3.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on sound engineering school websites.

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

1. The University of Texas at Austin: white 9% and grey 4.4%
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: green 4.2% and yellow 3.5%
3. American River College: white 22% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 51%, of sound engineering school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on sound engineering school websites include Verdana (19.4%) and Tahoma (8.2%).

The largest sound engineering school's websites use the following fonts:

1. The University of Texas at Austin: Bitstream Vera Sans
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: Arial
3. American River College: Times New Roman

Social Presence

Exactly 52 sound engineering schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 296 YouTube channel subscribers. The sound engineering schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Full Sail University: 2,427 subscribers
2. The Art Institute of Atlanta: 1,885 subscribers
3. The University of Texas at Austin: 1,698 subscribers

Exactly 73 sound engineering schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,216 Twitter account followers. The sound engineering schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. The University of Texas at Austin: 16,128 followers
3. Johns Hopkins University: 14,870 followers

Web Metrics

Although all sound engineering schools have websites, only about 20% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 80.6% of sound engineering school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The sound engineering schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
2. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links
3. Schoolcraft College: 1,322 broken links

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

1. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Prairie State College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Community College of Philadelphia: 1 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors
2. Ridgewater College: 0 HTML validation errors; 846 CSS validation errors
3. Long Beach City College: 30 HTML validation errors; 270 CSS validation errors