Art Schools in New York Site Evaluation

There are a total of 114 art schools in New York state. With 43,404 students, New York University is the largest art school in the state of New York.

New York University is a social media - savvy school with not only a website, but also a Facebook page and Twitter account. New York University has 54,953 "likes" on Facebook and 6,713 followers on Twitter.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 74 of the 114 art schools with websites use white as the primary color on their websites. Another color used as the predominant color on New York art school websites is grey (11.4%).

The colors used on the websites for the largest art schools in New York are as follows:

1. New York University: white 46% and purple 2.7%
2. University at Buffalo: white 12% and grey 1.6%
3. Suffolk County Community College: white 22% and grey 0.8%

Font

In New York, the most popular font style on art school websites is Arial. Approximately 33.3% of art schools in New York use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on art school websites include Verdana (29.8%) and Helvetica (11.4%).

The largest New York art schools' websites use the following fonts:

1. New York University: Verdana
2. University at Buffalo: Lucida Grande
3. Suffolk County Community College: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 101 art schools in New York have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 6,907 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The New York art schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:

1. Syracuse University: 69,790 "likes"
2. Cornell University: 68,806 "likes"
3. New York University: 54,953 "likes"

Exactly 66 art schools in New York have Youtube channels. On average, each of these schools has 226 Youtube channel subscribers. The New York art schools with the greatest number of Youtube channel subscribers are:

1. Columbia University in the City of New York: 4,146 subscribers
2. The New School: 2,231 subscribers
3. Barnard College: 957 subscribers

The New York art schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:

1. Cornell University: 426 Delicious bookmarks
2. Columbia University in the City of New York: 382 Delicious bookmarks
3. New York University: 342 Delicious bookmarks

Web Metrics

Of all of the New York art school websites, the one that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to Cornell University. This is indicated by the fact that Cornell University's site has a Compete Rank of 1,371, the highest Compete Rank of art school websites in New York.

And the New York art school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to Rochester Institute of Technology. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 87.7.

It is interesting to compare this data with the statistics for the largest art schools in New York:

School	Compete Rank	SEOMoz Page Authority
New York University	3,478	83.7
University at Buffalo	8,512	79.1
Suffolk County Community College	none	32.2