Websites of Selected Autonomous Colleges Affiliated to Bharathidasan University: A Webometric Study

Abstract

One has to undergo many hurdles to gain knowledge in his life. Instead of that if he browses the web, he can easily avail the knowledge from others experience. Hence the researcher makes an attempt to analyse the websites of aided autonomous colleges affiliated to Bharathidasan University. This paper gives a fair idea about the information provided by the websites of 10 colleges. This study aimed at establishing a kind of academic ranking of these websites by measuring their Web Impact Factor. Most of the college websites are having (.ac.in.) domain, followed by (.edu.in.). Among the aided autonomous colleges, Holy Cross College, Trichy scores 1st Rank with total number of links of 253 in their websites. Poompuhar college stood 1st with overall impact factor of 4.3., whereas St. Joesph College occupy the 1 st position in rich text with 1430 (.pdf) files. This study will give an idea about the strength and weakness of their website which helps them to eradicate the weaknesses and to improve the quality of websites in future