Analysis on link networks of iran municipal websites
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Amir Reza Asnafi Faculty member of Information Science and Knowledge Department, Shahid Beheshti University, [email protected]Maryam Pakdaman Naeini PhD student of Information Science and Knowledge Department, Payame Noor Mashad University, [email protected]Analysis on link networks of Iran municipal websites
Analysis on link networks of iran municipal websites
1. Amir Reza Asnafi Faculty member of Information Science and
Knowledge Department, Shahid Beheshti University,
[email protected] Maryam Pakdaman Naeini PhD student of
Information Science and Knowledge Department, Payame Noor Mashad
University, [email protected] Analysis on link networks of Iran
municipal websites
2. Introduction In current era, societies and organizations
encounter fast and fundamental changes. Successful organizations
using awareness of these changes can adapt with them and enrich
themselves.
3. Introduction E-government includes the use of electronics in
government as large-scale as the use of telephones and fax
machines, as well as surveillance systems, tracking systems such as
RFID tags, and even the use of television and radios or cloud
computing to provide government-related information and services to
the citizens. So, Current paper wants to study on visibility of
Iran municipal websites, and ranking them based on their link
relations and identifying core websites of these
organizations.
4. Research questions 1. How is the status of link relations
and interactive links among Iran municipal websites? 2. How is the
visibility of Iran municipal websites 3. Which websites of Iranian
municipal are core websites?
5. Research Method In current research, link analysis method,
one of the webomterics methods was used. 30 Iranian municipal
websites were extracted from Tehran municipal portal and search in
search engines during May 2014.. For drawing link diagram and link
relations of Iranian municipal websites, SocSciBot and Webometric
Analyst softwares were used.
6. These softwares are accessible via
http://socscibot.wlv.ac.uk and http://lexiurl.wlv.ac.uk. for study
on visibility of Iranian municipal websites, their inlinks were
counted. So, using http://www.woorank.com and
http://www.majesticseo.com, inlinks, traffic status and rank of
studied websites were extracted. .
http://www.tehran.ir/Default.aspx?tabid=124
7. Findings: Link diagram of Iran municipal websites In figure
1, interactive links and link diagram of Iran municipal websites
can be seen. Figure 1 indicated that municipal websites of Baft,
Kermanshah and Meshkin Shahr have not any in links or out links. In
the other words, these website have not any interactive links to
other Iran municipal websites and they are very passive. So they
have not high visibility. Figure 1 showed that Tehran municipal
websites had the most link networks with other Iranian municipal
websites.
8. Findings: Visibility of Iran municipal websites Visibility
of websites related to links that websites received. If received
links are high, visibility can be increased. Table 1 showed ranking
of Link diagram of Iran municipal websites, based on their
inlinks.
9. Table 1 indicated that from 30 studied websites, municipal
websites of Tehran, Yazd and Tabriz have the most inlinks and are
in the 1 to 3 ranks. Municipal website of Yasuj with 12 inlinks, is
the weakest municipal website in Iran. So, it can be found that
municipal websites that have higher inlinks, are more enriched and
user friendly.
10. Findings: Core Iranian municipal websites To identifying
core Iranian municipal websites this formula was used: Au means
indicator of assign core website, T means total of Inlinks division
on studied websites, and n means amount of studied websites. If
inlinks of a website was more than Au, Then we can say this is a
core website. In current research, Au was 30032.6. It means if
website have 30032.6 and more inlinks, it can be called a core
website.
11. Table 2 showed that from 30 studied website, 6 websites
that belonged Tehran, Yazd, Tabriz, Mashad, Qom and Isfahan
municipal were core websites of Iran municipal.
12. Table 3, showed visit traffic status and Google page rank
of Iran municipal core websites. Tehran, Isfahan, Yazd, Tabriz,
Mashad and Qom municipal websites as core website were ranked. Rank
of Tehran and Isfahan municipal websites in Google Page Rank were 5
and their visit traffic were high. It seems that they are more
visible than other Iranian municipal websites.
13. Conclusion Current research revealed that admins and
designers of studied municipal websites must have a strategic plan
for contents and services of websites for citizens. They should
understand items and factors that can lead to absorb more links to
their websites. Findings showed that Iran municipal website have
not desirable status in position of collaboration and link
networks. Since these websites are common in contents, if they have
co link together, then their visibility will be increased.
Municipal websites are interaction point of citizens with different
sections of municipal and access to their needed local information
and services
