Surgical Technologist Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 506 surgical technologist schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 359 surgical technologist 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 93% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 68% of the 506 surgical technologist schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.5% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (8.9%), black (5.3%) and green (2.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on surgical technologist school websites.

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

1. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
2. Northern Virginia Community College: white 11% and grey 4.6%
3. Lone Star College System: black 81.8% and grey 0.8%

Font

The largest number, nearly 49%, of surgical technologist school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on surgical technologist school websites include Verdana (20.4%) and Tahoma (7.5%).

The largest surgical technologist school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Houston Community College: Arial
2. Northern Virginia Community College: Trebuchet
3. Lone Star College System: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 204 surgical technologist schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 34 YouTube channel subscribers. The surgical technologist schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Northern Virginia Community College: 487 subscribers
2. Everest University - Brandon: 422 subscribers
3. Montgomery College: 369 subscribers

Exactly 240 surgical technologist schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 433 Twitter account followers. The surgical technologist schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Akron Main Campus: 5,682 followers
2. Everest University - Brandon: 3,945 followers
3. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: 3,071 followers

Web Metrics

Although all surgical technologist schools have websites, only about 30% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 70.2% of surgical technologist school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The surgical technologist schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
3. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links

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

1. Suwannee-Hamilton Technical Center: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Gwinnett Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Heart of Georgia Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The surgical technologist 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. ECPI College of Technology: 11 HTML validation errors; 588 CSS validation errors