Status of Province Payamenoor Universities websites with World Wide Web Consortium online softwares

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

Kobra Taram ¹ (Department of knowledge and Information Science. Payame Noor Universtiy, Tehran, IRAN)
nadjla hariri ² (Associate Professor of Librarianship and Information Sciences Department, Science and research Branch of Islamic Azad)
Abbas Doulani ³ (PhD Student of knowledge and Information Science, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.)

Received: 2013-09-18 Accepted : 2014-01-09 Published : 2014-11-22

Keywords: websites, Payamenoor Universities, Web metric, World Wide Web Consortium, Links,

Abstract :

Purpose: web metric assesse various aspects of the websites, web pages, labels of WebPages, hyperlinks and etc. the role of the web as communicative media is obviously. The aim of this research is analyzing of Payamenoor universities websites in the centers of provinces . Methodology: The research implemental and web metric. The community was Payamenoor universities websites in the centers of provinces , that all of them were studied. Data collecting tools were W3C online soft wares. Collected data analyzed by Microsoft office Excel and SPSS and Pearson correlation formula. Findings: Rresuslt show rate of broken links in the websites were in average and suitable ratio. The numbers of HTML errors in base of webpage number were a lot. The waiting time to loading the websites in various internet speeds were a lot. Correlation between number of the webpage and broken links also between the web page size and loading time was. /73 &. /69. Conclusion: Use of the various softwares for example the soft wares of the research, to defect resolution and increasing websites quantity and quality level by designers, can improve communication process between users and organizations.

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