My Personal Website

kurtito.com

Web Metrics Results

1) Yahoo! US News, Statesman.com, CNN, MSNBC and Austin360.com are the top websites in Austin.

2) The metrics that I would typically look at are the average daily visitors and minutes per visitor. These two metrics, when considered together, paint a pretty good picture of how a site is performing. Overall though, to really understand a site’s performance in depth you need to look at all of the metrics.

3)
Average Pages per Visitor:
1)KVUE
2)CNN
3)NEWS8AUSTIN

Average Minutes Per Visitor:
1)KVUE
2)CNN
3)NEWS8AUSTIN

4) Local news outlets land 5 in top 10 most visited sites in Austin
Austinites favor KVUE over other local news outlets
More Austinites look to Yahoo! for news than they do the Statesman

Terrible Usability and Design

I have chosen this site to critique, because I feel that it is an example of a poorly designed website. The overall structure and layout of the site make it very difficult to navigate, the text is cluttered and the photos need to be resized, among many other things. I'm sure there is a ton of great information on this site, it is just hard to find.

I look forward to critiquing this site in detail during class on Wednesday.


Kurt M