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Recommended Citation: Nelson, J A. Using Websitegarage.com as Site Analysis and Design Tool. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §441.

Using Websitegarage.com as Site Analysis and Design Tool

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James A. Nelson    [a1] [a2]
Department of Accounting & Business Computer Systems
New Mexico State University    [u1] [u2]
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA    [c1] [c2]

Websites from eight western colleges of business were analyzed using Netscape's websitegarage.com tool. This site automatically analyzes and generates reports of a websites design and performance. Factors rated include browser compatibility, search engine index measures, load time, dead link, popularity, spelling, and HTML syntax correctness. Most of the selected sites rated "Fair" overall, with only two sites rating "Good". Factors with the most negative impact on ratings were found to be (1) search engine indexibilty, and (2) load time as measured by the number of bytes of graphics.

Keywords: website design, websitegarage, HTML, graphics, performance

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