Speech Therapy Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 300 speech therapy schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 287 speech 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 60.3% of the 300 speech therapy schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 15.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (7%), blue (6.3%) and purple (3.3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on speech therapy school websites.

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

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. University of Central Florida: white 46% and black 1.6%

Font

The largest number, nearly 43.7%, of speech therapy school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on speech therapy school websites include Verdana (22%) and Helvetica (8%).

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

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

Social Presence

Exactly 230 speech therapy schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 303 YouTube channel subscribers. The speech therapy schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers
2. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
3. Purdue University - Main Campus: 2,760 subscribers

Exactly 251 speech therapy schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 3,209 Twitter account followers. The speech therapy schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
2. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers
3. Ohio State University - Main Campus: 18,232 followers

Web Metrics

Although all speech therapy schools have websites, only about 16% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 84.4% of speech therapy school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The speech therapy schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 broken links
2. Southeast Missouri State University: 3,219 broken links
3. University of Central Missouri: 1,421 broken links

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

1. University of Northern Colorado: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Florida State University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 0 HTML validation errors; 1,213 CSS validation errors
2. Alabama A & M University: 63 HTML validation errors; 905 CSS validation errors
3. Old Dominion University: 0 HTML validation errors; 615 CSS validation errors