Web Page Evaluation

Purpose: The page was created to allow the users to learn secondary language through attempting simple steps. It is an efficient translator that allows users to learn 36 secondary language as in total there is availability of 37 languages. The users can chose any one of the language and translate the words and sentences in 36 different languages.

Inform: Secondary language acquisition services where users can prefer more than one secondary languages.

Entertain: Games as the website allows users to play in different languages. It has the option of five different games including picture, guessing, typing, matching, and word search games.

Share information: hobbies considering the knowledge related to more than one language.

Advertise/Sell a product or service (business/marketing): This is a free service and all the users can access to all the pages and lessons for free.

Provide up-to-the-moment news: The website was last updated at “2018-01-24T18:58:20Z.” Since, the page is free for all the users, it does not have any advertisement or any ongoing event for binding the users. However, it uses mails to send notification to the existing users who have already registered in the website.

Personal enjoyment: The domain id by which the website was registered is “Domain ID: 255782795_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN” and the registrar for this domain is “NameCheap Inc.” It was developed for the fun and learning source and the users can have the benefits of understanding and learning more than one language.

Sponsor/Owner: The website “Polyglot – Free language lessons online, Learn English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Russian – Internet Polyglot” province to Panama under the registrar NameCheap Inc. It is a free service made available for the public and all the users who can connect to the internet.

            This website can be categorized into ‘Association’ as it is a free available website that allows all the users to avail the services related to the language transformation between 37 languages. The users can register in the website and avail all the available services for personal entertainment and benefits.

Organization and Content:

Is the page organized and focused? Is it well designed? Is the text well written? Are the links relevant and appropriate? Are the links evaluated?

            Yes the page is organized and focused however; it is not well designed. After auditing the webpage using Google chrome browser following results are found:

            The above results define that the page is organized and focused however; not designed properly and needs lot of modifications to be applicable for different individuals. Progressive Web app almost fails all the audit and that is an exclamation mark for the website that needs to be improved.

Text are written very well and the Arial font is used that is very clear for the users however; despite of the font the developer should have focused on the appearance of the fonts for different pre selection and post selection attempts.

After conducting the accessibility review Google chrome ranked it 58 that is a room for improvement by the developer. Following results were found after the review:

1. The page has a logical tab order
2. Interactive controls are keyboard focusable
3. The user’s focus is directed to new content added to the page
4. User focus is not accidentally trapped in a region
5. Custom controls have associated labels
6. Custom controls have ARIA roles
7. Visual order on the page follows DOM order
8. Offscreen content is hidden from assistive technology
9. Headings don’t skip levels
10. HTML5 landmark elements are used to improve navigation

Another test was for the best practices regarding the link and accessibility to the other servers and programming. It was ranked 60 out of 100 that is not very good for a website. Following results were gathered after performing the evaluation:

Best Practices

1. Does not use HTTP/2 for all of its resources6 requests not served via HTTP/2
2. Uses document.write ()
3. Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe
4. Page is missing the HTML doctype: Document must contain a doctype
5. Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities4 vulnerabilities detected
6. Browser errors were logged to the console

Bias—political or issue stance

            Left/Liberal: The sponsor is liberal as it aims at providing and enhancing the knowledge of the users and broadening their experience and general knowledge. The website does not provide any professional or technical training rather they are focused on enhancing the experience of the users. So, the rest of the options are not valid including right/conservative, centre, PAC, and a business. It should be categorized in the left/liberal bias.

Date of Production/Revision

            The web page was created on ‘2005-11-14’ that is registered till date ‘2025-11-14,’ if it is not renewed after or before expiration. The website was last updated on ‘2018-01-24,’ and hence, it is not up to the mark regarding recently update and improvisation of the website. There are total 91 links found in the web page including 82 internal and five outbound. Using the chrome developer simulation the following results were found:

Links to cross-origin destinations are unsafe

            The user interface of the system is interactive and easy to understand as while moving the cursor, and underline can be observed on the options for moving to the same link. All the links are not working properly as described in the above result are stated to be unsafe. However, regarding the final job delivery, all the links are working properly and the final option is applicable for users to use it.

Usefulness: The research project is the study of the adoption or learning of ‘Second Language Acquisition’ and the website has so many amusing games and other activities through which second language acquisition can be accomplished by the users. So, the web page is relevant to the current research paper and it can be helpful for the users in accomplishing the goals related to the acquisition of the secondary language. It is well written comparing the appearance and gaps between the words however, it could have been more attractive through adding different colours and fonts. As in the entire page blue colour fonts are used and are of same Arial fonts. It is helpful for me as it can allow me to learn about 37 languages and I have so many options to choose from and get to know about the different words and meanings of the words in different languages. Moreover, it is always fun to learn things while playing. Moreover it also provide images and explains the words.

Very important

            The only sponsor of the web page was polyglot that has been widely providing the free services regarding many multilingual websites those are helping the individuals in enhancing their attributes regarding the expression of the different language acquisitions by many users. However, the web page has not any editable options and hence, it can be a reliable source as it will cascade the only information that is uploaded by the admin itself.

Authority/ author

            There is not any credible author or sponsor for the web page as an organization polyglot is the only who is responsible for the page development and upgrade. The expertise can be experienced of the team as an individual cannot develop this web page on his or her own. Other than this website they have a list of active websites those contribute in the same field of detailing the different languages and their understanding on how to learn different languages using various curricular activities including game, image review, and quiz. It also allows to have lessons and the registered users can get on a free course of learning the different language. The sponsor provided their website for emailing ‘polyglot1@internetpolyglot.com’ where the users can contact the admin regarding any glitch, issue, or query. The provided information are accurate enough to make it acceptable in the literature and in personal life as the web page provides necessary information related to the different languages. Research explains that the translation of the words and their meanings are same and accurate and it can be used by the personals in their personal life. No, bias does not found to be evident as it allows every user to have the access to the links and the pages for free without any further problems or issues.

What is it?

            It is a Web-only page that allows users to access many information via selecting the different links. As mentioned above, it has total 91 links that allows users to expand much information related to the ongoing course or activity. It does not allows the users to upload or download anything however, they can look for the images and went to different links where they can access more deep information.

Audience:      

            It can be stated that the audiences for this webpage are all the individuals who are looking to acquire different language other than their mother tongue. Since, it provides options of 37 languages and hence, the users can learn and become polyglot as they want to. The first option is general readers and yes, they can have access to the website and utilize it for personal development or complete their hobby. The students can also have the access to the website and could possibly acquire great knowledge of their interest if they are looking to acquire second or third or fourth language, or so on.  The students categorizing from high school, college, and graduate can utilize the website for learning different language and can feel comfortable if they are moving to other country or place where majority speaks different language. Not all the specialists are good at many languages and hence, the professionals or specialists looking to have another language in their profession and can possibly use the website to have another languages. The scholars and researchers have always to look for the different sources and wide range of information and so, they can also use this website for learning the terms or contacting individuals where it is necessary to have another language to make front ending individual understand the aspect, he or she wants to explain.

Coverage:

            It covers the entire 37 languages and almost all the words can be find as it starts from the basic and take it to the expertise level. So, the partially, and overview cannot be related to the website. It starts allowing the users to understand the normal words. The users are also allowed to take a look at the pictures and understand them in different language that is much more effective for learning the individuals. The visual representation is always helpful gfor understanding the different language that can be well understood by the individual while talking about the second language acquisition.

Illustrations:

            All the graphics clear in intent, professional looing, and relevant to the words the users looking for in different language. It also allows voice expression of the words that is not very clear however, it can be effective to learn the accent and get into the real world after gaining better language. The graphics are powerful and relevant to explain the necessary information that the website wants to explain while discussing the words.

Security:

            The security of the website is compromising as it does not seems to have any encryption that is protecting the texts and the links. The security of the web page needs to be improved and evaluated when there is necessary. The chrome simulation results in following results:

            This states in general that the web page is secured however, encryption cannot be seen as the primary technology to block intrusion. The above description is effective and efficient enough for allowing the users can use the website for personal benefits. The normal users can positively register to the website and access the services for personal improvement and language acquisition.

Link:

http://www.internetpolyglot.com