Video Game Design Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 286 video game design schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 186 video game design 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 74.5% of the 286 video game design schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Black (5.9%), yellow (3.1%) and blue (2.8%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on video game design school websites.

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

1. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%
2. College of Southern Nevada: white 47% and blue 6.2%
3. Pima Community College: white 21% and purple 1.2%

Font

The largest number, nearly 39.5%, of video game design school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on video game design school websites include Verdana (30.1%) and Helvetica (6.3%).

The largest video game design school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Houston Community College: Arial
2. College of Southern Nevada: Arial
3. Pima Community College: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 123 video game design schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 261 YouTube channel subscribers. The video game design schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers
2. Full Sail University: 2,427 subscribers
3. Savannah College of Art and Design: 1,503 subscribers

Exactly 144 video game design schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,033 Twitter account followers. The video game design schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Full Sail University: 10,108 followers
2. Carnegie Mellon University: 9,147 followers
3. Savannah College of Art and Design: 7,191 followers

Web Metrics

Although all video game design schools have websites, only about 20% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 80.8% of video game design school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The video game design schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota School of Business - Richfield: 1,642 broken links
2. Northland Community and Technical College: 908 broken links
3. Lansing Community College: 796 broken links

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

1. Pima Community College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Berkeley City College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The video game design school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors
2. Chisholm Trail Technology Center: 117 HTML validation errors; 494 CSS validation errors
3. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors