Automotive Schools in Illinois Site Evaluation

There are a total of 40 automotive schools in Illinois state. With 27,083 students, College of DuPage is the largest automotive school in the state of Illinois.

College of DuPage is a social media - savvy school with not only a website, but also a Facebook page and YouTube channel. College of DuPage has 2,904 "likes" on Facebook and 202 subscribers on YouTube.

Visual Preferences

Color

Exactly 34 of the 40 automotive schools with websites use white as the primary color on their websites. Another color used as the predominant color on Illinois automotive school websites is black (7.5%).

The colors used on the websites for the largest automotive schools in Illinois are as follows:

1. College of DuPage: white 25% and grey 2.5%
2. Southern Illinois University Carbondale: white 13% and grey 5.6%
3. College of Lake County: white 25% and yellow 4.9%

Font

In Illinois, the most popular font style on automotive school websites is Arial. Approximately 37.5% of automotive schools in Illinois use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on automotive school websites include Verdana (32.5%) and Tahoma (10%).

The largest Illinois automotive schools' websites use the following fonts:

1. College of DuPage: Verdana
2. Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Arial
3. College of Lake County: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 31 automotive schools in Illinois have Facebook pages. On average, each of these schools has 3,049 "likes" on their Facebook pages. The Illinois automotive schools with the greatest number of "likes" are:

1. Southern Illinois University Carbondale: 28,957 "likes"
2. Illinois Central College: 5,616 "likes"
3. Joliet Junior College: 4,762 "likes"

Exactly 18 automotive schools in Illinois have Youtube channels. On average, each of these schools has 32 Youtube channel subscribers. The Illinois automotive schools with the greatest number of Youtube channel subscribers are:

1. College of DuPage: 202 subscribers
2. Lincoln Land Community College: 115 subscribers
3. Moraine Valley Community College: 54 subscribers

The Illinois automotive schools whose websites have been bookmarked the most number of times on Delicious are:

1. Black Hawk College: 85 Delicious bookmarks
2. Southern Illinois University Carbondale: 51 Delicious bookmarks
3. Waubonsee Community College: 33 Delicious bookmarks

Web Metrics

Of all of the Illinois automotive school websites, the one that receives the greatest number of unique visitors belongs to College of DuPage. This is indicated by the fact that College of DuPage's site has a Compete Rank of 17,360, the highest Compete Rank of automotive school websites in Illinois.

And the Illinois automotive school website that is considered the most authoritative by SEOMoz belongs to College of DuPage. It has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 66.9.

It is interesting to compare this data with the statistics for the largest automotive schools in Illinois:

School	Compete Rank	SEOMoz Page Authority
College of DuPage	17,360	66.9
Southern Illinois University Carbondale	30,591	66.8
College of Lake County	45,746	58.9