Evaluation of World Ranking, Web Visibility and Content Accessibility of Quran Web Portals

Abstract

The use of search engines is the most common way of finding the information. This means that less visible contents (for search engines) are increasingly difficult or even almost impossible to find. Thus, Web users are forced to accept alternative services or contents only because they are visible and offered to users by search engines..Therefore, it is fundamental to assure that one’s Web site will be indexed and, consequently, visible and accessible to as many Web users as possible. The websites are the most useful platform to disseminate Quran knowledge and information. The most important website that Muslims interact with is the Holy Quran websites. Higher quality websites tend to attract more links and rendered those websites as highly visible. In this study softwares like Seoquak, Alexa, AChecker is applied to evaluate the visibility and accessibility of Quran Web Portals/websites. Eight Quran Websites/WebPortals were investigated. It was found that the website Quranexplorer.com has drawn a Top traffic ranking among eight selected websites. It is futile to have a website that is difficult to access by users owing to non compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The software like AChecker is able to examine the Al-Quran websites for barriers to accessibility. Applying AChecker to the 8 Quranic websites it was found that the website, namely the Altafsir.com top the list in terms of the most number of errors in their website.