Webometrics

My Ph.D. Proposal on Webometrics

Web Impact Factor of my web site

Definition

"The WIF provides quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing web sites, top-level domains and sub-domains. There are three types of link. Outgoing links from web pages are here named outlinks, links coming into a site from other sites inlinks (backlinks), and links within the same site (from one page to another page) self-links. And there are three types of WIF: overall WIF, inlink (revised) WIF, and self-link WIF. For the overall WIF of a web site, the numerator is the number of inlink pages from outside the site and self-link pages within the site; for the inlink (revised) WIF, the numerator is the number of inlink pages counted from outside the site; and for the self-link WIF, the numerator is the number of self-link pages counted from within the site. The denominators all remain the same, the number of web pages within the web site in question" (Noruzi, 2006).