Human Resources Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 763 human resources schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 590 human resources 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 61.2% of the 763 human resources schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 20.6% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (5.2%), yellow (4.3%) and black (4.2%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on human resources school websites.

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

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: grey 49%
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: white 30% and grey 3.4%
3. Strayer University - District of Columbia: white 23% and grey 3.5%

Font

The largest number, nearly 47.3%, of human resources school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on human resources school websites include Verdana (20.3%) and Helvetica (8.9%).

The largest human resources school's websites use the following fonts:

1. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: Arial
2. Ohio State University - Main Campus: Helvetica
3. Strayer University - District of Columbia: Verdana

Social Presence

Exactly 432 human resources schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 274 YouTube channel subscribers. The human resources schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Harvard University: 28,331 subscribers
2. Carnegie Mellon University: 16,128 subscribers
3. University of Minnesota - Duluth: 4,518 subscribers

Exactly 499 human resources schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 1,995 Twitter account followers. The human resources schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Harvard University: 69,704 followers
2. Indiana University - Bloomington: 27,945 followers
3. University of Phoenix - Online Campus: 26,204 followers

Web Metrics

Although all human resources schools have websites, only about 22% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 78.7% of human resources school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The human resources schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. University of Michigan - Dearborn: 5,490 broken links
2. Manhattanville College: 4,422 broken links
3. Eastern Washington University: 4,378 broken links

It is also interesting to evaluate the number of HTML and CSS validation errors on human resources school websites to get a sense of the quality of these sites. The human resources 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. California Lutheran University: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. University of Connecticut: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

The human resources school websites with the greatest number of HTML and CSS validation errors include:

1. Bergen Community College: 178 HTML validation errors; 869 CSS validation errors
2. University of Colorado Denver: 0 HTML validation errors; 794 CSS validation errors
3. Eckerd College: 14 HTML validation errors; 558 CSS validation errors