Websites quality: Does it depend on the application domain?

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Abstract

Websites quality models are important to rank presences in the web, to identify best practices or pinpoint poor implementations. This paper presents a preliminary step of a website quality evaluation approach based on fully automatic collection of quality metrics, grouped by ISO9126 quality characteristics. In this step, over sixty candidate metrics, mostly proposed by other Web Engineering researchers, were collected. Besides providing evidence on the feasibility of automatic collection, we present the results of an empirical study where we assess which metrics of website quality depend on the application domain. Using a modified web crawler and a database, we collected a sample of more than one hundred sites, organized in three balanced groups, each corresponding to a different application domain area (banks, newspapers and airlines). Then, we tested if the application domain had a statistically significant influence on the values of the collected quality metrics. Our findings point to the conclusion that roughly half of the selected quality metrics are domain dependent.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages493-498
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9780769542416
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2010
Event7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 29 Sept 20102 Oct 2010

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2010
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period29/09/102/10/10

Keywords

  • Application domain
  • Automatic collection
  • Evaluation
  • ISO9126
  • Quality metrics
  • Websites

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