Plumbing Schools Site Evaluation

There are a total of 144 plumbing schools in the US. While all of these schools have websites, 108 plumbing 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 144 plumbing schools use white as the primary color on their websites. Another 11.8% use grey as the primary color on their websites. Blue (10.4%), black (2.1%) and green (2.1%) are other colors commonly used as the primary color on plumbing school websites.

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

1. Miami Dade College: white 10% and blue 2.9%
2. College of Southern Nevada: white 47% and blue 6.2%
3. Salt Lake Community College: yellow 6% and orange 1.9%

Font

The largest number, nearly 43.8%, of plumbing school websites use Arial as the primary font on their websites. Other fonts commonly used on plumbing school websites include Verdana (24.3%) and Tahoma (9%).

The largest plumbing school's websites use the following fonts:

1. Miami Dade College: Arial
2. College of Southern Nevada: Arial
3. Salt Lake Community College: Arial

Social Presence

Exactly 65 plumbing schools have YouTube channels. These schools each have an average of 42 YouTube channel subscribers. The plumbing schools with the greatest number of YouTube channel subscribers are:

1. Olympic College: 451 subscribers
2. Red Rocks Community College: 192 subscribers
3. Pensacola State College: 176 subscribers

Exactly 82 plumbing schools have Twitter accounts. These schools each have an average of 411 Twitter account followers. The plumbing schools with the greatest number of Twitter followers are:

1. Mountainland Applied Technology College: 1,938 followers
2. Central New Mexico Community College: 1,279 followers
3. College of Southern Nevada: 1,110 followers

Web Metrics

Although all plumbing schools have websites, only about 31% of these schools actually appear to regularly maintain their sites. This can be deduced from the fact that 69.2% of plumbing school websites have 3 or more broken links one click away from their homepage. The plumbing schools with the most number of broken links are:

1. Minnesota West Community and Technical College: 26,086 broken links
2. Vincennes University: 3,603 broken links
3. Atlanta Technical College: 1,443 broken links

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

1. Foothill College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
2. Miami Dade College: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Seminole State College of Florida: 0 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors

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

1. Chippewa Valley Technical College: 121 HTML validation errors; 942 CSS validation errors
2. Milwaukee Area Technical College: 519 HTML validation errors; 0 CSS validation errors
3. Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Center: 73 HTML validation errors; 284 CSS validation errors