An HTML analyzer for the study of web usability

Author

Alonso-Ríos, David ; Luis-Vázquez, Iván ; Mosqueira-Rey, Eduardo ; Moret-Bonillo, Vicente ; Del Río, B. Baldonedo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of A Coruna, A Coruna, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1224

Lastpage

1229

Abstract

This paper presents an HTML analyzer for the study of Web usability. The analyzer parses HTML code in order to extract usability information from Web pages. For usability aspects that can be analyzed automatically, the analyzer draws conclusions and offers suggestions. For more subjective usability issues, it assists the expert by presenting relevant information in a convenient way. Many similar applications exist, but they mostly focus on well-known usability problems and pay little attention to subtler aspects. More alarmingly, they suffer from basic usability problems. Our results show that our analyzer examines several usability aspects - related to ease of navigation, understandability, flexibility, and compatibility - that are generally ignored by the other tools.

Keywords

Web sites; hypermedia markup languages; HTML analyzer; Web pages; Web usability; compatibility; flexibility; understandability; Computer languages; Computer science; Cybernetics; Data mining; Guidelines; HTML; Information analysis; USA Councils; Usability; Web pages; HTML analysis; human-computer interaction; web usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009. SMC 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2793-2

Electronic_ISBN

1062-922X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5345901

Filename

5345901