A survey on visibility, impact and co links of the branches of Islamic Azad University websites

This research aims to investigate visibility, Web Impact Factor (WIF), total links and size of the websites of the Islamic Azad Universities (IAU).

In this research we used webometrics methods specially link analysis. All 176 websites belonging to the IAU which were in a period of one month were reviewed through Yahoo.

The research results indicated that “Lenjan branch.” with 5440 in- links, “Nour abad mamsani branch.” with 4280 and “South Tehran branch.” with 3290 in-links.  “Sarvan branch”, “Lenjan branch” and “Khoram abad branch.” had the highest WIF among Islamic Azad Universities (IAU).

Results analysis indicated that web designers in these universities must identify how to attract links and web traffic in order to promote the quality and content of websites. However، the ultimate success of a website was dependent upon factors such as quality، size، language، and the approximate age of a website which was not limited to one or two factors.