Searching experience in cibermedia: Comparative analysis of digital journals

Abstract

The aim of this study is the analysis of the components that provide searchability and visibility to digital-born news media on the Internet, under the unifying concept of the search experience. The methodology used is a comparative analysis of the so-called Search Experience Optimization (SXO) applied to a group of digital news media. Specifically, eldiario.es, publico.es, elconfidencial.com, elespanol.com, huffingtonpost.es, infolibre.es, libertaddigital.com and vozpopuli.com have been analyzed. To carry out this analysis, we have used the study protocol called PAXBCM. Thanks to this analysis we have been able to confirm different degrees of compliance with SXO by the digital news media analyzed, being libertaddigital.com the one with the best overall results. However, all the cases studied present opportunities for improvement in various aspects such as loading speed, use of multimedia content, accessibility, and searchability.