Name
Abstract | ||
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an update on previous surveys that have looked at the quality of HTML documents on the worldwide web Previous surveys have indicated that the quality of HTML documents tends to be quite poor, with most documents containing defects Design/methodology/approach - To determine the extent of this problem, the paper undertook a large-scale study of HTML document quality among the most popular web sites (approximately 100,000) Findings - The paper found that the vast majority (over 95 percent) of web sites did not adhere to the worldwide web consortium standards for HTML Research limitations/implications - This study represents a single investigation over a short timeframe. Hence, ideally the study needs to be replicated in the future to help generalise the findings Practical implications Such poor quality may jeopardise the security or usability of a website making the site's users vulnerable to malware attacks This poor level of quality has drastic implications for web usability and security Originality/value - The new survey undertook a more extensive examination of popular web sites than previous surveys |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1108/14684521011024182 | ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Standards,Hypertext,Markup Language,Worldwide web | Hypertext,World Wide Web,Web page,Information retrieval,Computer science,Usability,Document quality,Malware,HTML,Web site,Markup language | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
34.0 | 1.0 | 1468-4527 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.70 | 4 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ejike Ofuonye | 1 | 23 | 2.57 |
| Patricia Beatty | 2 | 74 | 6.31 |
| Scott Dick | 3 | 363 | 27.54 |
| James Miller | 4 | 8 | 0.70 |