Abstract

Author(s): Varsha Ashok Dhande, SV Kantule , Vaishali Khaparde

The website of Indian institute of technology is a platform to exhibit the courses offered by the institution and also about the research activities carried out by that institute prioritizing the content is one of the best ways to make sure the visitors are finding the information the site wants them to find, and that they want to find, and that they want to find. A total no of 20 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) were taken up for the study homepage of the institute were taken up for the study and the various web objects were identified and also their locations in the home page of the institute were analysed and discussed. The study also helps the web designers to improve the usability of websites. The purpose of this Institute is to evaluate Indian institute of technology web sites using Alexa internet a subsidiary company of amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. It is one of the most well-known tools for evaluating websites that offers a free of charge evaluation service. The present study has been done by using webometric methods. Each institute web site was searched in Alexa databank and relevant data including traffic rank, pages viewed, links, bounce percentage, time on site, search percentage, and Indian/other users were collected.