Theology Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 997 theology schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 905 theology 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 63.9% of the 997 theology schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.9% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (7%), blue (6.6%) and black (5.8%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on theology school websites.

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

1. Arizona State University: grey 34% and white 4.5%
2. University of Central Florida: white 46% and black 1.6%
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: white 28% and grey 3.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 39.2%, of theology school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on theology school websites include Verdana (21.5%) and Helvetica (9.3%).

The largest theology school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Arizona State University: Arial
2. University of Central Florida: Arial
3. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Helvetica

Social Presence

Exactly 641 theology schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 226 YouTube channel subscribers. The theology schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
2. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers
3. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers

Exactly 752 theology schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,723 Twitter account followers. The theology schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
3. Arizona State University: 24,295 followers

Web Metrics

Although all theology schools have websites, only about 25% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 75.4% of theology school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The theology schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. College of Saint Mary: 23,650 broken links
2. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
3. Doane College - Crete: 4,754 broken links

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

1. Arizona Christian University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. California Lutheran University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Nazarene Bible College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Trinity College: 89 HTML validation errors; 538 CSS validation errors
2. Sacred Heart University: 556 HTML validation errors; 65 CSS validation errors
3. Eckerd College: 14 HTML validation errors; 558 CSS validation errors