Towards the identification of usability metrics for academic Web-sites

This paper presents a brief account of the development in the field usability of Web-applications. Quality of Web-sites play crucial role in success of a web-site. Usability has been considered most important factor amongst the other factors. Since Web based software are diverse and build by integrating numerous components it is not proper to have common quality model for all Web-applications. In this paper the authors have proposed usability metrics of Web-applications for academic domain.