A Study On Web Page Usability Analysis Tool Based On Design Guidelines

As the development of the society, people's daily lives are increasingly tied to network. But now the design of the web page still exists many problems which cause a lot of inconvenience to users. So, designing a good web page plays an important role in increasing the access of the web page.In order to help web page designers and maintainers to study the usability problem of the web page, we developed an assistant tool, the basic principle of which is to analyze the source code basing on the web page design guidelines. This tool can give the analysis of many aspects, such as web link, picture, Animation, search function, framework and print function. After analyzing a number of web pages, it can do simple Statistical analysis. Meanwhile, this tool has certain modification function, which can give the corresponding modification suggestion according to the results of analysis. This paper firstly introduced the basic conceptions of usability, usability engineering and web usability problem. After analyzing the existed problems on the web page and the traditional methods of analyzing the existed problems on the web page, the author proposed an approach on how to help web page designers and maintainers analyze web usability problems using an assistant tool. Then, this paper introduced the implementation of the system and the evaluation and modification of the tool. Finally, we conducted two pilot application case study. The first one is about the analysis application of 400 web pages on the sina website. And the second one is about the analysis application of eBay Chinese website and English website. The two cases indicate that this tool can help web designers and maintainers improve work efficiency.