Guidelines for presenting statistics on web sites

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Guidelines for presenting statistics on web sites
Ed Swires-Hennessy
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Development

• Started reviews in 1998
• Written for UK colleagues but made freely
  available on web
• Saw many difficulties
• Developed guidelines

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Today

• Reviews highlight user perspective
• Points are specific to a particular site but
• Idea is to provoke questions of readers web
  sites
• Promote change and improvement

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Good practice sites

• New Zealand
• Iceland

Sites for improvement

• UK not user friendly
• Algeria too many graphics and no updates