A website is used by different people for different purposes. Each website can be rated for its usefulness by the general public based on certain criteria, as discussed in this article. A website that talks about a particular disease such as ADHD should be evaluated according to the following criteria (Engle, 2014.), (“Evaluating Web Pages,” 2012), (Tillman, 2003):1. Context and topic coverage: The visitor to such a website will be interested in learning more about the disease, its treatment, medications, local support groups and different events associated with the disease, etc. The language of the content should be examined, whether it is too technical, elementary or too advanced. It must be visually appealing and interesting to users with appropriate use of graphics.2. Credibility: The credibility of the website should be analyzed with respect to the author, its publication date, its modified or revised version and its publisher.3. URL: The URL of the website and each of its web pages should give an idea of the content of the web page.4. Appropriate format: The site must be easily navigable from one topic/web page to another topic/web page. The links should be easily visible. The site should be checked for links to other websites related to the topic.5. Feedback from other websites: The website can be evaluated based on statistics from sites like alexa.com. The better the ranking, the higher its reliability.6. Comparability with related sources: The website should provide relevant content on the content lines of other popular websites on the same topic.7. Software/Hardware/Multimedia Requirements: The website should be evaluated based on the ease of use of the website with few requirements of… half of paper… 94 globally. On average there are only 4 pages viewed per visitor per day and the bounce rate is 46.30%. Most of its visitors come from the United States (70.8%). He has two other ADHD-related sites and other helpful sites related to chadd.org. or provide links to this website. You need to work on it to improve its rankings. It has good website content comparable to other ADHD related sites but much more can be incorporated to provide comprehensive coverage of the topic as provided on sites like add.org. The website does not specify any specific software/hardware/multimedia requirements for browsing it. Since the Internet is free for all and unmonitored, the user must evaluate the content and credibility of the website based on individual needs. The criteria used to evaluate a website can vary from person to person.
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