Indian Institutes of Technology’s Websites in India: A Webometric Analysis

Gururaj S Hadagali, Shivanand D Bulla, Iranna M Shettar

Abstract


The Web Impact Factor (WIF) is a quantitative indicator based on link frequencies that was developed by Peter Ingwersen in 1998. The present study uses the webometric tools and indicators to analyse the websites of Indian Institutes of Technology in India. The parameters used for this study are, simple WIF, self link WIF, External link WIF, Back links and Broken links. Google Search Engine, Web Link Analyzer, Back Link Watch and Broken Link Checker are used as tools to collect the data from the IIT’s websites. The results of the study indicate that all the IIT’s, 23 (100%) have .ac.in domain extension; the IIT Mandi has the highest SWIF and SLWIF, i.e. 0.043 (with 178 LWP and 4130 Web pages) and 0.033 Self Link Web Impact Factor (with 137 SLWP and 4130 Web pages) Whereas, 0.014 External Link WIF with 103 External Link web pages and 7190 web pages the IIT Gandhinagar has the highest ELWIF and IIT Mandi is in the top position with 0.072 RWIF. With 0.81% broken links IIT Palakkad has secured the first position. 


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