An Automated Tool for Web Site Evaluation

Web is becoming more and more important each day for business, education, sharing information and for communication. Every passing day the number of companies, organizations and individuals publishing their web sites is increasing. Everyone wants their web site is of good quality. Some quality metrics may affect indirectly on the popularity through their effect on the performance or the usability of websites. So it is necessary to evaluate a website so that it can satisfy the users. Main purpose of web site evaluation is to assure the quality of the web site. Evaluation of websites can be done in many different ways. This work focuses on implementation of an automated tool for web site accessibility evaluation. Firstly, web site evaluation tools are reviewed and compared. Then an enhanced automated evaluation tool, named as SITECHECKER is developed. Developed tool is capable of doing the work of HTML validator as well as it can be evaluate other contents such as dead links, hidden files, java scripts, CSS, extra comments in the HTML code and code to text ratio in a web site. KeywordsWebsite accessibility, website usability, automated evaluation, web metrics, crawling, website evaluation.