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Dowming Yeh, Ray Tsai+, Pei-Chen Sun and Jia-Wen Lee
Department of Software Engineering
National Kaohsiung Normal University
Kaohsiung, 802 Taiwan
E-mail: {dmyeh; sun}@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw
+Business Computer Information Systems
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, MN, 56301-4498 U.S.A.
E-mail: rjtsai@stcloudstate.edu
As the World Wide Web develops, the number of new websites grows at an astounding
speed. However, many web sites are designed and established without the aid
of sufficient professional skills and resources, so their quality is often questionable.
Therefore, evaluation of the quality of web sites becomes important. In this work, stepwise
regression method is applied to assess the ranking of web sites in two different
categories based on the average number of visits per day. Such ranking represents, in part,
user satisfaction, and therefore, the quality of a web site. A total of fourteen factors frequently
found in the literature are considered independent variables in developing the
model. The regression analysis shows the regression models are different for two categories
of web sites and their prediction accuracies are both over 75%. Our models also
suggest that good web sites must satisfy a wide spectrum of quality aspects.
Received August 31, 2005; revised January 18 & March 9, 2006; accepted March 27, 2006.
Communicated by Pau-Choo Chung.
*This work was partially supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C., under grant No. NSC
92-2213-E-017-001.