Summary of initial webometrics

Web sites linking to or mentioning BBC Arabic

Name URLs Domains TLDs

Web pages containing Arabic and mentioning BBC Arabic

3956 1811 50

Web pages containing Arabic and mentioning " العربية سي بي "بي

4920 2210 48

Web pages containing Arabic and linking to the

home page of www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/872 534 26

Web pages containing Arabic and linking to bbcarabic.com

1259 628 26

Some indication of the impact of BBC Arabic – gained byfour different Yahoo searches – details on following pages

Table 2. Web sites frequently mentioning BBC Arabic in pages

containing Arabic Site URLs %

blogspot.com 39 1.0%

truveo.com 30 0.8%

middleeasttransparent.com

29 0.7%

maktoob.com 29 0.7%

metransparent.com 29 0.7%

esgmarkets.com 24 0.6%

wasalive.com 22 0.6%

yahoo.com 21 0.5%

mostathmr.com 21 0.5%

metransparent.net 21 0.5%

The report containsA longer list

The list gives an ideaOf the most importantWeb sites for BBC Arabic

Some are Arabic

Some are generic butUsed for Arabic contentsometimes

Table 3. Web sites frequently mentioning " العربية سي بي "بيSite URLs %

blogspot.com 43 0.9%

maktoob.com 40 0.8%

moheet.com 35 0.7%

moq3.com 30 0.6%

nesasy.org 29 0.6%

google.com 29 0.6%

albawaba.com 23 0.5%

jeeran.com 23 0.5%

com.sa 22 0.4%

farfesh.com 22 0.4%

Similar to previous slide

Uses the most commontranslation of BBC Arabic(?)

Table 4. Web sites frequently linking to BBCArabic.com in pages

containing ArabicSite URLs %

blogspot.com 35 2.8%

sunloove.net 32 2.5%

alwatansudan.com

30 2.4%

jeeran.com 27 2.1%

maktoobblog.com

27 2.1%

maktoob.com 25 2.0%

asmarna.net 16 1.3%

angelfire.com 15 1.2%

Links are another wayof identifying relevant sites

Table 5. Web sites frequently linking to www.bbc.co.uk/Arabic/ in

pages containing Arabic

Site URLs %

maktoobblog.com

30 3.4%

blogspot.com 25 2.9%

8m.com 23 2.6%

jeeran.com 23 2.6%

khayma.com 22 2.5%

angelfire.com 16 1.8%

al-falahiya.net 16 1.8%

elaphblog.com 15 1.7%

Using links to the alternativeBBC Arabic URL

Arab social network sites/blogs

• We haven’t found the main ones– arabfriendz.com;arabicspace.com;kalamarab.com;

arabchat.org (all small – there must be bigger sites)

• Facebook may be widely used – impossible to analyse with Webometrics due to privacy

• Blogs and discussion forums would be better to analyse but are difficult to find

• Could analyse a list of Arabic blog hosting sites or social network sites if anyone has one??

Future webometrics work?

• We can run a similar analysis on “competitor” web sites that are similar to BBC Arabic– Look for sites that link to them but not to BBC

Arabic?

• Can also run a similar analysis on specified Arabic blog/social network sites?