WEBOMETRICS STUDY OF J.R.D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE By Joselyn Final Year MLIS Under Guidens Mr. M. SURULINATHI Assistant Professor Depatment of Library & Informatio Science

Concept of Webometrics  Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results.  Webometrics is (a) a set of quantitative techniques for tracking and evaluating the impact of web sites and online ideas and (b) the information science research field that developed these ideas. Webometric techniques include link analysis, web mention analysis, blog analysis and search engine evaluation, but from the perspective of digital library evaluation the main method is link analysis.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM  Web resources are apple of information professional’s eye due to its value added services to meet their current and diversified information needs. In the World Wide Web (WWW), the web pages are the entities of information, with hyperlinks from them acting as citations.  Quantitative analysis on the WWW is being carried out in the same way, as is tradition in citation databases. As information on web increases towards entropy, it’s needed to apply some theory/metrics (measurement) to develop new methods, modeling techniques and metaphors to examine this emerging complex network.  By keeping this view in mind, the researcher intends to undertake the study on “Webometric study of J. R. D Tata Memorial Library in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore”. This study attempt to analyses the website of IISc Library.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY  To identify and analyze the library website of Indian Institute of Science.  To calculate various types of web impact factors for Indian Institute of Science.  To identify the domain or sub-domain systems of all the websites of Indian Institute of Science as per the web pages.  To calculate the number of web pages, number of self link pages and external link pages of the websites library in Indian Institute of Science.

TOOLS USED FOR STUDY Web accessibility evaluation tools are software programs or online services that help determine if a Web site meets accessibility guidelines. While Web accessibility evaluation tools can significantly reduce the time and effort to evaluate Web sites, no tool can automatically determine the accessibility of Web sites. This study focuses some of the webometrics tools are followed:  Web optimization  Web Alexa

WEBOMETRICS ANALYSIS OF J. R. D TATA MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The J.R.D Tata Memorial Library of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) Bangalore was established in 1911 and it is one of the first three departments started in the Institute. It is regarded as one of the best scientific and technical libraries in India. Apart from the Main Library it has departmental libraries also. In 1995 the library was renamed as "J.R.D Tata Memorial Library". The National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) has recognized this library as Regional Center for Mathematics for the south region and continued to award a special grant towards subscription of Journals in Mathematics. It is no exaggeration to state that the IISc library is the largest and finest of its kind in this part of the world. Collection of Library:  Books  Journals  Reports,  Standards and  Patents  Cd-Rom

Electronics Thesis and Dissertation of IISc

E – Prints of IISC

Global Statistics URL: Date: Report run on Thu May 31 05:17:15EDT2012 Analysis and Interpretations of Library Website Total HTTP Requests : 9 Total Size: 40941bytes Object Size Totals The total objects on this page (including the HTML) is 9 which most browsers can multithread in a reasonable amount of time. Minimizing HTTP requests is key to minimizing object overhead (see Figure II-3: Relative distribution of latency components showing that object overhead dominates web page latency in Website Optimization Secrets for more details on how object overhead dominates web page latency.

Object typeSize 56K (seconds) T1 (seconds) HTML: HTML Images: CSS Images: Total Images: Javascript: CSS: Multimedia:00.00 Other:0 0.00

 TOTAL_HTML - the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 2 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization. Y  TOTAL_IMAGES - the total number of images on this page is 2. Most browsers can send multiple requests, which can speed display of multiple images.  TOTAL_SIZE - the total size of this page is bytes. This page should load in 9.96 seconds on a 56Kbps modem. Based on current average web page size and composition trends you want your page to load in less than 20 seconds on a 56Kbps connection, with progressive feedback. Ideally you want your page to load in 3 to 4 seconds on a broadband connection, and 8 to 12 seconds for the HTML on a dialup connection. of course, there's always room for improvement.  TOTAL_SCRIPT - Caution. The total number of external script files on this page is 5, consider reducing this to one or two. Combine, refactor, and minify to optimize your JavaScript files. Ideally you should have one (or even embed scripts for high-traffic pages) on your pages. Consider suturing JavaScript files together at the server to minimize HTTP requests. Placing external JavaScript files at the bottom of your BODY, and CSS files in the HEAD enables progressive display in XHTML web pages.  HTML_SIZE - the total size of this HTML file is 8435 bytes, which less than 50K. Assuming that you specify the HEIGHT and WIDTH of your images, this size allows your HTML to display content in under 10 seconds, the average time users are willing to wait for a page to display without feedback.  IMAGES_SIZE - the total size of all your images is 561 bytes, which is less than 50K. Even with a 50K HTML page this page should load in less than 20 seconds on a 56Kbps connection. Ideally each image should be less than 1160 bytes, to easily fit into one TCP-IP packet.  SCRIPT_SIZE - The total size of external your scripts is bytes, which is over 20K. Consider optimizing your JavaScript for size, combining them, and using HTTP compression where appropriate for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents. You can substitute CSS menus for JavaScript-based menus to minimize or even eliminate the use of JavaScript.  MULTIM_SIZE - the total size of all your external multimedia files is 0 bytes, which is less than 10K.

Alexa Web Analyzing Search Traffic Traffic rank for iisc.erne t.in Month and daysTraffic rankChange 7 day51,785+8,374 1 month44,261+8,400 3 month32,953+3,007 Alexa Traffic RankReputation 98,809 Global Rank 4,956 Rank IN 4,092 Sites Linking In(No reviews yet)

Daily Reach (percent) Estimated percent global internet users who visit iisc.ernet.in Month and daysPage views/ userChange 7 day % 1 month % 3 month %

Search Visits (percent) Estimated percentage of visits to iisc.ernet.in that came from a search engine: Month and daysSearch % Change 7 day % 1 month18.4-5% 3 month %

High Impact Search Queries for Iisc.ernet.in S.NoQueryImpact 1 Gate 2012 High 2 Gate Medium 3 supply chain managementMedium 4 supply chainMedium 5 IiscMedium 6 thesis templateMedium 7 Workshop

Where Visitors Go on Iisc.ernet.in S.NoSubdomainPercent of Visitors 1Iisc.ernet.in31.04% 2Admission.iisc.ernet.in19.03% 3csa.iisc.ernet.in13.66% 4ces.iisc.ernet.in12.93% 5ece.iisc.ernet.in6.15% 6ncsi.iisc.ernet.in5.59% 7math.iisc.ernet.in3.48% 8mgmt.iisc.ernet.in2.83% 9 serc.iisc.ernet.in2.30% 10 eprints.iisc.ernet.in2.23% 11 gate.iisc.ernet.in2.06% 12 ee.iisc.ernet.in2.02% 13 chemeng.iisc.ernet.in1.96% 14 civil.iisc.ernet.in1.47% 15 mbu.iisc.ernet.in1.35% 16 nano.iisc.ernet.in1.22% 17 materials.iisc.ernet.in1.20%

High Impact Search Queries for iisc.ernet.in

Audience Demographics for Iisc.ernet.in Relative to the general internet population how popular is iisc.ernet.in with each audienc below:-

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION  J.R.D Tata Memorial Library in Indian Institute of Science has their own domain server for website and used a standard design and structure.  The growing use of Academic Programmes, Electronic Theses and Dissertation, E- print and INDEST or AICTE resources and so on. It has revolutionized the process of Institute publicity and dissemination of information pertaining to resource services, rules and regulations.  The information provided in the web pages of J.R.D Tata Memorial Library in Indian Institute of Science in globally and their pages need to be evaluated periodically using web analying tools like Web optimization, web aim, alexa etc. This will help the IISc to improve their websites according to the user’s needs.

Acknowledgement  I am very glad to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. M. SURULINATHI, Assistant Librarian, Department of Library and Information Science Bharathidasan University, for his guidance and encouragement throughout my project.  I would like to thank Dr. S. SRINIVASARAGAVAN, Librarian & Head, Department of Library & Information Science, Bharathidasan University for his encouragement.  I am very much thankful to Dr. R. Balasubramani and Dr. N. Amsaveni, Mr. C. Ranganathan, Mr. B. Jeyapragash Assistant Professor’s and technical officers Mr. B. Neelakandan, Ms. C. Kokila, Ms. P. Jayanthi and other Library staffs for helping me as a resource person and providing me his valuable suggestions.  And also, I thank to my Parents, Sister, and my friends for their encouragement, suggestions and help to complete my project successfully.  Finally I humbly and whole hearted bow my head towards Almighty God for blessing me with all His grace to successfully complete my studies and research endeavor.