Sports Psychology Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 14 sports psychology schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 13 sports psychology 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 100% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 64.3% of the 14 sports psychology schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 14.3% use black as the primary color on their websites. Green (7.1%), grey (7.1%) and blue (7.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on sports psychology school websites.

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

1. Central Michigan University: white 19% and green 4.4%
2. Western Michigan University: white 8% and black 2.6%
3. Texas Christian University: white 26% and black 1.4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 35.7%, of sports psychology school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on sports psychology school websites include Verdana (21.4%) and Helvetica (14.3%).

The largest sports psychology school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Central Michigan University: Lucida Grande
2. Western Michigan University: Arial
3. Texas Christian University: Trebuchet Ms

Social Presence

Exactly 12 sports psychology schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 100 YouTube channel subscribers. The sports psychology schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Texas Christian University: 543 subscribers
2. Ithaca College: 222 subscribers
3. High Point University: 147 subscribers

Exactly 12 sports psychology schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,682 Twitter account followers. The sports psychology schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Texas Christian University: 13,107 followers
2. Ithaca College: 6,168 followers
3. Western Michigan University: 3,214 followers

Web Metrics

Although all sports psychology schools have websites, only about 15% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 85.7% of sports psychology school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The sports psychology schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Gardner - Webb University: 312 broken links
2. Upper Iowa University: 259 broken links
3. Saint Ambrose University: 243 broken links

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

1. Southwestern College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Saint Ambrose University: 0 HTML validation errors; 2 CSS validation errors
3. Guilford College: 4 HTML validation errors; 5 CSS validation errors

The sports psychology school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. Gardner - Webb University: 212 HTML validation errors; 17 CSS validation errors
2. High Point University: 0 HTML validation errors; 205 CSS validation errors
3. Trevecca Nazarene University: 0 HTML validation errors; 150 CSS validation errors