Search engine based maintainability evaluation measure of web site

Abstract

Evaluation measure of web site is an important tool for web mining and information release. Fatherly, maintainability is a notable merit among the evaluation. But, the measure which is able to stably attain standardized maintainability is absent in present. In fact, the merit is just implied in the search engines. When the spiders of search engine periodically visits web site to find new information and information update, both updating history and interval of web site page, which reflect the maintainability of web site, are recorded into search engine cache. By comparing latest web caches with current web pages, maintainability degree of web site can be calculated, and then maintainability of a web site is obtained too. The paper presents a search engine based maintainability evaluation measure of web site. Some experiments aim to test the measure illustrate the evaluation result and performance are credible and valuable. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.