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Library Websites Evaluation of Higher Educational Institutes (HEIS) of India:A Web Analysis


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The study aims to examine the performance of top twenty library websites of higher educational institutes of India. The study had evaluated Ahrefs Rank, Referring Pages, Referring Domain, Back Links and Crawled Pages of select library websites. The study has focused on two objectives and hypotheses. Ranking Web of University, July 2017 have been considered for top twenty higher educational institutes of India. Ahrefs, a web analyzer has been considered for the study. The data collected from Ahrefs has been analyzed and tabulated to reveal the findings in accordance with the desired objectives. One way ANOVA and Spearman’s RHO Correlation were used for statistical analysis. IIT Kharagpur library website secured the first position whereas TIFR, Mumbai library website secured the last among the twenty library websites.

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Web Analyzer, ANOVA-Test, Pearson Correlation, P-Value, F-Value, Suo Motu Disclosure.
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Authors

Shalini Wasan
Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Rupak Chakravarty
Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Abstract


The study aims to examine the performance of top twenty library websites of higher educational institutes of India. The study had evaluated Ahrefs Rank, Referring Pages, Referring Domain, Back Links and Crawled Pages of select library websites. The study has focused on two objectives and hypotheses. Ranking Web of University, July 2017 have been considered for top twenty higher educational institutes of India. Ahrefs, a web analyzer has been considered for the study. The data collected from Ahrefs has been analyzed and tabulated to reveal the findings in accordance with the desired objectives. One way ANOVA and Spearman’s RHO Correlation were used for statistical analysis. IIT Kharagpur library website secured the first position whereas TIFR, Mumbai library website secured the last among the twenty library websites.

Keywords


Web Analyzer, ANOVA-Test, Pearson Correlation, P-Value, F-Value, Suo Motu Disclosure.

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