ABSTRACT:
The aim of the 2004 CIQM Website Quality Survey was to provide data on the quality of websites in a specific domain, and to compare these with the results of the 2003 survey. In order to achieve this a random set of Websites from the .gov.uk domain was analysed in terms of authority, and the care with which pages were constructed and maintained. This is expected to be the first in a series of such single-domain surveys of this type. We evaluated 60 Websites in terms of a limited set of criteria, including dating, links to responsible persons or bodies, accessibility, navigational context, corrupt or suspect links and the provision of metadata.
To make comparison with the 2003 survey results easier, the report format is the same, including table numbers. The tables from the 2003 report are repeated in this report, with .gov.uk data added. A few new features have been surveyed for this survey.
