Ultrasound Technician Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 247 ultrasound technician schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 184 ultrasound technician 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 92% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 74.9% of the 247 ultrasound technician schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 6.9% use blue as the primary color on their websites. Grey (6.5%), black (4.9%) and yellow (2.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on ultrasound technician school websites.

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

1. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
2. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
3. Northern Virginia Community College: white 11% and grey 4.6%

Font

The largest number, nearly 47.4%, of ultrasound technician school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on ultrasound technician school websites include Verdana (21.5%) and Helvetica (6.9%).

The largest ultrasound technician school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. Houston Community College: Arial
3. Northern Virginia Community College: Trebuchet

Social Presence

Exactly 116 ultrasound technician schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 94 YouTube channel subscribers. The ultrasound technician schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Mayo School of Health Sciences: 3,951 subscribers
2. Rochester Institute of Technology: 567 subscribers
3. Northern Virginia Community College: 487 subscribers

Exactly 138 ultrasound technician schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 800 Twitter account followers. The ultrasound technician schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Iowa: 11,182 followers
2. George Washington University: 8,075 followers
3. Seattle University: 7,733 followers

Web Metrics

Although all ultrasound technician schools have websites, only about 31% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 69.5% of ultrasound technician school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The ultrasound technician schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Harrisburg Area Community College - Harrisburg: 4,597 broken links
2. Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center - School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography: 1,466 broken links
3. George Washington University: 1,094 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on ultrasound technician school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The ultrasound technician 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. Kaplan College - North Hollywood: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The ultrasound technician 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. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors