I.J. Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 2014, 6, 33-39 Published Online December 2014 in MECS (http://www.mecs-press.org/) DOI: 10.5815/ijieeb.2014.06.04 Copyright © 2014 MECS I.J. Information Engineering and Electronic Business, 2014, 6, 33-39 Comparative Study of Website Page Size as Design Issue in Various Websites Jatinder Manhas University of Jammu/Department of Computer Sciences &IT, Jammu, 181206, India Email: manhas.jatinder@gmail.com, jatindermanhas@jammuuniversity.in Abstract—Websites are very important means of communication in this current era of information technology. Different institutions / organizations put lots of efforts to portray complete information on beautifully designed websites. Organizations these days concerned more in providing users with all facilities online through websites, which act as an interface through which a user can get his work done without physically visiting the organization. With this the responsibility of the designer and the concerned institutions / organizations increases manifold so that the websites behavior should remain interactive and quick enough for the user to avail all facilities through websites comfortably. Speed and size of a Website are directly related with each other. Size is very important when targeting users that don’t have optimal Internet connections. Author in this paper developed an online tool using .NET Framework using C# to study webpage size as Design issue in various categories of the websites like Government, Commercial, Educational, Social networking and Job portals. The automated tool developed by author function on the basis of the different standards prescribed in W3C and prescribed in analysis performed in [2]. The tool act like a parser and renders the complete code of the website and then produces result by examining the memory requirements of the component files that contribute to the total size of the website. The results produced shows that out of the five different categories of websites, it can be concluded that none of the website categories undertaken follows the recommended standards of the World Wide Web consortium showing huge violation as far as recommended page size for different websites is concerned. Index Terms—Website, page size, Design Issue, W3C, Standards. I. INTRODUCTION Website is combinations of related web pages served through single domain. Numbers of different kinds of websites are there but the most widely used categories of the websites are Educational, Commercial, Government, social networking and job portals. These days it has become mandatory for and organization big or small to develop a website to render its services online through different networks. With increase in the number of websites and its popularity it becomes necessary for an organization to put lot of efforts to design websites carefully so that it can easily cater to the need of all the different categories of the users. A number of website design issues are there which needs to be kept into consideration while designing websites. One of the most important issues among all is the total size of webpages. A webpage with considerable overall size not only limits memory requirements but also minimizes the page loading speeds and hence increases the accessibility of the website making it more user-centric and engaging. With the advent of large increase in the size of websites due to newer features and facilities, there has been a massive increase in the loading time of webpages with the result it has becomes mandatory for a website to implement strategies that will result in reduced webpage total size. Numbers of different organizations are there which are responsible for developing and implementation of different website development standards. To evaluate the website design according to the different standard so that it provide better interaction facilities to users different types of automated tool are available and to evaluate the websites design w.r.t. the standards developed by W3C, an automated tool is developed which will take URL of the website as an input and then parse the complete code of the website and compare it with the website code that it is written according to the standards of W3C or not. The working of the parser / automated tool developed is explained in the below given ―Fig. 1.‖ Fig. 1: Block Diagram of the parser.