1) Authorship—people responsible for the displayed contents. |
2) Promoting body—institution that supports the website. |
3) Endorsement—relevant professional or academic institutions that give guarantees and endorse the site. |
4) Coherence of the title and the content. |
5) Dates of creation and Web publication. |
6) Date of update—last change. |
7) Links—functioning of the three first links, if they exist (from left to right and top to bottom on the homepage). |
8) Coherence of links—relationship and pertinence of the external sites to the subject of the text. |
9) Existence of contact details—means for contacting those responsible: addresses, telephone numbers, electronic mail, etc. |
10) Contact validity—response from the person responsible for the website when receiving a personal request for information. |
11) Help—visible presence of help that makes understanding the website easier. |
12) Information management—option of saving or easily generating a file in pdf format for printing. |
13) Navigability—use of the homepage and related pages without the need to use specific software. |
14) Usability—absence of difficulties for people with special needs (visual, hearing, physical or cognitive impairment.) Preferably with the W3C certification. |
15) Certification—legitimacy of structural quality or of contents confirmed by certifying bodies: HONcode, etc. |
16) Conflicts of interest—declaration of any secondary influence, usually economic or personal. |
17) Objectivity—clarity of ideological, moral, ethical, religious, commercial and personal opinions. |