Computing quality of navigation designed into a web-site

Abstract

People around the world are at web sites for want of information, doing shopping, conduct literature surveys, gain knowledge, post activities and actions, do chatting, develop communities, and organize events and many such purposes. A vast number of websites are in use for information dissemination. It has become difficult to figure the web site where the information is available for which the user is looking. The search engine invented and implemented to help the user to locate the website where the information is available desired by the users. One of the most critical aspects of extensive usage of the web site is the navigation implemented within the development of web sites. People must be able to navigate across the web sites with ease and land up at the location where the information posted. Users get satisfied when the information that they are looking for is available with ease and within the negligible amount of time. Many factors influence the quality of a web site out, which the factor “Navigation” is the key as it forms the backbone of any web site. If the web sites poorly designed, it leads to the implementation of poor navigation, and the user usually tends to ignore surfing such a website. Some contributions exist in the literature relating the definition and meaning of the factor “Navigation,” but no formal methods, techniques, frameworks exist used for computing the quality of the website. An approach/Model presented in this paper for computing quality of a web site considering “Navigation” of the website as the primary focus.