Webometrics

According to Björneborn and Ingwersen, the definition of webometrics is "the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the Web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches.

A second definition of webometrics has also been introduced, "the study of web-based content with primarily quantitative methods for social science research goals using techniques that are not specific to one field of study",[2] which emphasizes the development of applied methods for use in the wider social sciences.

Similar scientific fields are: bibliometrics, informetrics, scientometrics, virtual ethnography, and web mining.

One relatively straightforward measure is the "web impact factor" (WIF) introduced by Ingwersen (1998).

However, the use of WIF has been disregarded due to the mathematical artifacts derived from power law distributions of these variables.

Site based graph relationship. The idea was taken from paper "Web-communicator creation costs sharing problem as a cooperative game" [ 3 ]