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Screenshots and automated analysis of public sector Covid19 sites from around the world
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New metric #2

Open julianrod opened 4 years ago

julianrod commented 4 years ago

Awesome job!

My team in Buenos Aires is already looking at most of these sites. They're now checking this tool too.

I'd like to propose a new metric to measure complexity/amount of info, that would be number of internal pages linked by the homepage. (sorry I wouldn't know how to automate that)

Also it'd be great if you could add our website for Buenos Aires City: https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/coronavirus

Cheers!

jystewart commented 4 years ago

Hi @julianrod - glad it's useful!

I've added the BA site to the list and it should start to appear in reports over the weekend.

Internal links is an interesting one. The density of links on the landing page seemed to be one of the things making the reading age hard to calculate (a page made up entirely of links is a very different experience from one with specific content) so it's been on my mind, but I'm not sure how you'd determine what good looks like. Do you have a sense of how you'd quantify that?

One thing I'm considering is starting to add some other measures that aren't part of the public reports but seem worth capturing to do deeper analysis. Proportion of content that's links vs. proportion that isn't seems like it could fit there?

julianrod commented 4 years ago

Oh, I didn't mean having the number of internal links was good or bad in itself... maybe an indication of complexity for navigation.

A proportion like content vs. links could be interesting.

Thanks for adding our website!