X Ray Technician Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 349 x ray technician schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 292 x ray 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 93% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 70.8% of the 349 x ray technician schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 9.7% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (6.3%), black (5.4%) and yellow (3.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on x ray technician school websites.

The colors used on the websites of the largest x ray technician 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. Tarrant County College District: white 18% and yellow 4%

Font

The largest number, nearly 41.3%, of x ray technician school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on x ray technician school websites include Verdana (29.2%) and Tahoma (6.9%).

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

1. Houston Community College: Arial
2. Northern Virginia Community College: Trebuchet
3. Tarrant County College District: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 176 x ray technician schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 95 YouTube channel subscribers. The x ray technician schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Mayo School of Health Sciences: 3,951 subscribers
2. Boston University: 1,194 subscribers
3. Grand Rapids Community College: 1,166 subscribers

Exactly 222 x ray technician schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 750 Twitter account followers. The x ray technician schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. University of Iowa: 11,182 followers
2. Aurora St. Luke Medical Center School of Radiologic Technology: 9,703 followers
3. Boston University: 9,069 followers

Web Metrics

Although all x ray technician schools have websites, only about 25% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 75.9% of x ray technician school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The x ray technician schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Central Arizona College: 93,584 broken links
2. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
3. Tarrant County College District: 14,140 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on x ray technician school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The x ray technician 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. Gwinnett Technical College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The x ray technician school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. ECPI College of Technology: 11 HTML validation errors; 588 CSS validation errors
2. Alegent Health School of Radiologic Technology: 381 HTML validation errors; 95 CSS validation errors
3. St John's Regional Health Center - School of Radiologic Technology: 384 HTML validation errors; 16 CSS validation errors