Web Design Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 616 web design schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 384 web 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 94% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 64% of the 616 web design schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 18.2% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.4%), black (4.5%) and yellow (3.4%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on web design school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
3. Houston Community College: white 36% and grey 4.3%

Font

The largest number, nearly 45.1%, of web design school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on web design school websites include Verdana (29.9%) and Tahoma (4.5%).

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
3. Houston Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 229 web design schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 109 YouTube channel subscribers. The web design schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Nashville Campus: 2,942 subscribers
2. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 2,942 subscribers
3. The Art Institute of Atlanta: 1,885 subscribers

Exactly 297 web design schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 731 Twitter account followers. The web design schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers
2. The Art Institute of Atlanta: 9,023 followers
3. New York University: 6,713 followers

Web Metrics

Although all web design schools have websites, only about 21% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 79.3% of web design school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The web design schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links
2. Northwest Missouri State University: 6,291 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 web design school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The web design school websites with the cleanest websites, i.e., least number of HTML and CSS validation errors are:

1. Gavilan College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Berkeley City College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Gwinnett Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: 0 HTML validation errors; 1,213 CSS validation errors
2. Spoon River College: 68 HTML validation errors; 871 CSS validation errors
3. Mt. San Jacinto Community College District: 74 HTML validation errors; 841 CSS validation errors