Health Science Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 472 health science schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 428 health science 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 96% are on Facebook.

Visual Preferences

Color

Approximately 64.6% of the 472 health science schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 10.6% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Yellow (7.2%), blue (7%) and black (5.3%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on health science school websites.

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

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: white 56% and blue 1.1%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. University of Central Florida: white 46% and black 1.6%

Font

The largest number, nearly 42.6%, of health science school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on health science school websites include Verdana (23.7%) and Helvetica (8.3%).

The largest health science school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Kaplan University - Davenport Campus: Times New Roman
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. University of Central Florida: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 314 health science schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 842 YouTube channel subscribers. The health science schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 113,180 subscribers
2. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
3. Yale University: 20,055 subscribers

Exactly 372 health science schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 2,876 Twitter account followers. The health science schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
3. Yale University: 23,748 followers

Web Metrics

Although all health science schools have websites, only about 22% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 78.9% of health science school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The health science schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Creighton University: 7,788 broken links
2. Knox College: 2,836 broken links
3. Fisher College: 2,795 broken links

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

1. University of Northern Colorado: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Florida State University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The health science school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
2. Trinity College: 89 HTML validation errors; 538 CSS validation errors
3. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans: 487 HTML validation errors; 9 CSS validation errors