A New Method for Webometric and Ranking of Iranian Government Web Sites Based on Combined Criteria

There have been many attempts to assess web sites based on their information, format, functionality or even the impact they have in the web space. For this purpose numerous indices have been introduced which some of them consider web space features and some other related to the link structure of web sites.The aim of this research is identification of quantity and quality characteristics of government websites from different aspects in order to evaluate Iran e-government situation from web viewpoint. There have been carried out lots of studies about quantitative analysis of e-government internationally in the form of rankings of countries by international organizations, private sector consultancies and academic researchers.In this paper, we have proposed a new method by combining various features for evaluating and comparing Iranian government websites and also studying related web domain status