websites have been considered as one of the most important means of communication among different stakeholders. regarding this fact, the news websites have been taken into account as one of the most important types of websites since they provide the users with significant information providing capabilities and they also play a major role in creating and disseminating knowledge in the society. t...

the purpose of this study is to analyse the correlation between content and traffic of 21,485 academic websites (universities and research institutes). the achieved result is used as an indicator which shows the performance of the websites for attracting more visitors. this inspires a best practice for developing new websites or promoting the traffic of the existing websites. at the first step,...

tourism organizations have become one of the main users of the internet in recent years bysetting their own urban tourism websites. however, not all the websites are effective to promote their goals andobjectives. an effective evaluation of urban tourism websites can help organizations on how best to employ them.using the ictrt (information, communication, transaction, relationship and technica...

this study deals with the visibility, influence rate of diffrent links in virtual universities websites. the current community research is consisted of websites of 21 non medical universities websites and 8 websites of iran medical universities. the websites have been retrieved by the use of searchin and goolge webometic tools and are downloaded on personal computers to analyze their links. the...

introduction: websites of academic journals have an important role in communicating and providing services to researchers. the present study aimed to determine the number of incoming links of iranian journal of medical sciences websites. besides, it aimed to determine the rate of visibility of core websites based on these findings. methods: this descriptive study was performed using webometrics...

this study aims to examine the content of isps' websites in two countries, iran and malaysia. the sample contained 31 iranian and 19 malaysian websites. each website was content analyzed for use of various interactivity functions in three dimensions of consumer – message, consumer – marketer and consumer – consumer interactivity. our findings indicate that iranian websites tend to emphasiz...