Simple Metrics for Web Page Level Interface Design Quality Measurement

Abstract

A Web site interface is a complex mix of text, links, graphic elements, formatting and other aspects that affect the site’s overall quality. The concepts of traditional software engineering usability guidelines can be applied to measure the Web interface quality. Several Metrics were proposed to correspond with items that Web usability guideline associate with good design, such as word count, total page size in bytes, body text percentage, average link text count and others. In this paper, we propose the simple metrics that were used to measure, categorized by collected data source from health and education websites in order to judge the web page quality. The goal of the system is to provide the practical establishment for Web site design guidelines and also propose which metrics can be most important for evaluation by means of user studies. These simple metrics is intended to measure a quantitative analysis of several attributes of Web page layout and composition and their relation to usability.