The Effect of Website Interactivity on the Popularity of News Sites
School Name
Spring Valley High School
Grade Level
10th Grade
Presentation Topic
Consumer Science
Presentation Type
Non-Mentored
Abstract
As much of the world’s information moves online with passing generations, the spread of news has become a very technological process. People have access to hard and easy news with the click of a button. The purpose of this study was to detect if there was a correlation between the most popular news websites and there Time To Interactive (TTI) scores (seconds). Therefore, the effectiveness of access to a website was evaluated to see whether the speed at which all interactive aspects of a website become active is faster in websites deemed to be the most popular. The hypothesis predicted that if the popularity of a website was higher then the TTI score would be lower, meaning less time. The webpagetest.org lighthouse test was utilized in order to establish a performance score in which the Time To Interactive score was visible. The data was collected and analyzed in order to determine the significance of the information. The regression test was utilized in order to discover a correlatio between the TTI score of a website and its rank in popularity. There was not enough of a significant pattern detected between the popularity of a website and its TTI scores to establish a valid relationship between the popularity of a website and its TTI score.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Isabel, "The Effect of Website Interactivity on the Popularity of News Sites" (2023). South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. 45.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/scjas/2023/all/45
Location
BS 202
Start Date
3-25-2023 10:15 AM
Presentation Format
Oral and Written
Group Project
No
The Effect of Website Interactivity on the Popularity of News Sites
BS 202
As much of the world’s information moves online with passing generations, the spread of news has become a very technological process. People have access to hard and easy news with the click of a button. The purpose of this study was to detect if there was a correlation between the most popular news websites and there Time To Interactive (TTI) scores (seconds). Therefore, the effectiveness of access to a website was evaluated to see whether the speed at which all interactive aspects of a website become active is faster in websites deemed to be the most popular. The hypothesis predicted that if the popularity of a website was higher then the TTI score would be lower, meaning less time. The webpagetest.org lighthouse test was utilized in order to establish a performance score in which the Time To Interactive score was visible. The data was collected and analyzed in order to determine the significance of the information. The regression test was utilized in order to discover a correlatio between the TTI score of a website and its rank in popularity. There was not enough of a significant pattern detected between the popularity of a website and its TTI scores to establish a valid relationship between the popularity of a website and its TTI score.
