Abstract
The primary goal of this paper is to investigate various elements of websites and compare the quality of two groups of university website designs. The procedure for the quality assessment of website design involves various modules: Extracting components of websites, validating web pages, and identifying broken links. It continues with collecting the compared data of the existing statement of Iranian and British universities websites. The 5-point scale has been chosen as evaluator tool. Different kinds of tools are used to examine above components. These tools include: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Link Checker, W3C markup validation service, web page analyzer, and website extractor. The W3C statistics findings show that Iranians university websites have high rate of errors compared with British university websites. These errors had been occurred in various levels of the websites: For example, HTML errors, broken links, server connectivity, image load error, and so on. It is clear that some of the websites donot followthe explicit website designing standards like W3Cs standards, and use nonprofessional designers whichcauseescalating the rate of website's errors.
Highlights
A website has different information in various formats such as text, image, audio, and video
This paper aims to evaluate and compare elements required for designing thewebsites ofmajor Iranian and British university websites
The findings show that Iranian university websites have much more broken link than British university websites which make users to be bored
Summary
A website has different information in various formats such as text, image, audio, and video. We acknowledge that each format has some special features and requiresspecific design. A website contains objects and information which arealso related to each other, even with its outside. These objects have to follow certain guidelines to have a qualified web design. Different audiences surf universities websites for different purposes. A student may look forcourse information, Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.jscires.org
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