Content Organization of Open Universities Web...

Content Organization of Open Universities Websites in India: A Webometric Study

Author Name : Miss. Muneshwar Bhimabai Subhash, Khaparde Vaishali S, Dhage Santosh V

ABSTRACT

The website of a university is a platform to exhibit the courses offered by the institution and also about the research activities carried out by that university. Prioritizing the content is one of the best ways to make sure the visitors are finding the information the site wants them to find, and that they wants to find, and that they want to find.  A total of 16 Indian open  Universities were taken up for the study homepage of the Open Universities were taken up for the study and the various web objects were identified and also their locations in the home page of the Universities were analyzed and discussed. The study also helps the web designers to improve the usability of websites. The purpose of this university is to evaluate Open Universities web sites using Alexa Internet a subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. It is one of the most well known tools for evaluating websites that offers a free of charge evaluation service. The present study has been done by using webometric methods. Each Open Universities web site was searched in Alexa databank and relevant data including traffic rank, pages viewed, links, bounce percentage, time on site, search percentage, and Indian/other users were collected.

Keywords: Content organization Webometrics, Open Universities, university website, Alexa internet,