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Note, these results may be reprinted freely providing
an attribution to Aardvark and Aardvark's URL are prominently
featured in any such republishing or reprinting
The results of last week's survey are in...
| | NBR | ClearNet |
| Visual appeal | 4.9 | 8.8 |
| Content | 7.8 | 6.1 |
| Ease of use | 4.5 | 8.1 |
| Speed | 4.8 | 7.2 |
| Reliability | 5.1 | 7.6 |
| Overall | 5.5 | 9.6 |
Ratings are averaged from all responses and are on a
scale of 0-10
Comments re NBR's site:
- Almost without exception, respondents to the survey commented
on the wealth of content available at the NBR site, many considering
it to be one of the most important NZ-based locations on the Net.
- A number of people complained of performance problems
and database crashes.
- Many Netscape 2.0 users complained that it crashed their browsers -
but I think it does advise users to use NS3.0 or MSIE3.0 on the site
so caveat emptor.
- Several people seemed unable to find out exactly how to sign up
online. Maybe it's not intuitive enough.
- The number of complaints about the user-interface and need to
click down more than four levels on some occasions probaby accounts
for the rather low "ease of use score".
- 51% of respondents said they will be revisiting the site regularly
Comments re the ClearNet site:
- Most comments were full of praise for the quality of the web design
- Several people commented that there was a dearth of NZ sites amongst
the links and that the web designers seemed to favour their own sites
rather than those of their competitors.
- Some commented how strange it was that the category listings were
identical to those on Xtra
- 67% of respondents said they would be revisiting the site regularly
although comments indicate that this figure may drop if the links
aren't regularly updated.
Editor's Comments:
- The above table isn't meant to be an NBR versus Clear comparison,
it's just a convenient way to display the data. These are two
distinctly different sites focusing on dramaticaly different market
sectors.
- There were a couple of strange submissions which were excluded
from the results. One reply from the host ID nbr1.midland.co.nz
gave the NBR site 10/10 for everything (strange eh?) while another
from the domain clear.co.nz did the same for the clear site.
There was a contribution from the xtra.co.nz domain which
gave ClearNet a big fat zero on all categories. All of these
were discounted from the results, for obvious reasons.
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