The Drudge Report website critique summarizes the site's key aspects in 3 paragraphs or less. It notes that the site is a single page divided into 3 columns with relevant news stories and images. Content is focused on current events and scandals. While the design is basic HTML, the site is popular for providing easily accessible relevant information on politics and entertainment. Some suggestions are made to improve features like adding subscription services or forums for feedback. Overall, the critique indicates the simple interface provides objective information that builds the site's brand and audience.

1. Website Critique
The Drudge Report
M.J. Banks

2. Overview
1. Introduction
2. Appearance
3. Reletivity
4. Content
5. Presision
6. Image Quality/Quantity
7. SEO
8. Layout Concerns
9. Layout Suggestions
10.Review/Predictions

3. Introduction
• A good website ensures that its visitors have
the best experience possible, in spite of
technical aspects created, a user will likely
spend mere seconds assessing a page
without scrolling and make their decision
instantly.
• Each site is built with a targeted audience in
mind, www.drudgereport.com targets a
demographic of news seekers, and is
political.

4. Appearance

5. Appearance (design)
• A single page website,
divided into three
columns, each
sectioned by story.
Notice that each
section has a topical
image, succeeded by
descriptive links.

6. Relevance
• Keeping relevant with current issues. Date
accessed, 25 March 2013. Topics include:
-Easter (current holiday)
-Scandals
-Civil Unrest
-Media Scrutiny
-Politics and Entertainment
-International Conflicts

7. Content
• The site's popularity is regulated by relevant
and interesting information.
• Readers can easily click-thru to the parts they
are seeking (convenience).
• Information isn't difficult to locate, active-
links, correct-links, alt tags display the
hyperlink, all links are labeled. Link color and
visited link color, are the same, black.
• Drudge Report has no sponsored content other
than ads it seems.

8. Precision
• Single page design. www.drudgereport.com
• Keywords: Site is primarily text based.
• Descriptions: All links double as descriptions
• Titles: Sections all go untitled without
necessity.

9. Image Quality/Quantity: 1

10. Image Quality/Quantity: 2
North Korean
Current Dictators Panda Fertillity
President News
• Having images on the site improves navigation
or assuages perception. The images used
seem to be of a good quality when browsing the
site, and to copy and paste in PPT.

11. SEO: Can you Google it?

12. Design Problems
• Layout issues
o No email subscription service
o RSS-feed links are dated forms of update services
o The layout is reminiscent of most html-based sites
popular to the early 1990s

13. Layout Suggestions
• Separately divided into multiple pages by
topic, news sections can be provided with a
page/post comment system, as are
many/most blogs given.
• A discussion forum, a place for feedback
from site vistors to influence the political
learnings of the site to their requests.

14. Review & Predictions
• Does the site:
o Increase sales? Yes
o Build brand awareness? Yes
o Improve/build customers relationships? Yes
DrudgeReport.com optomizes the conversation of
visitors into fans by having such a simple interface,
objective knowledge is readily availible, and opinions
are made from blunt news advertisment by topical
trending issues with a human spin, despite the basic
html format.

15. Conclusion
• News aggregation services are
aplenty, example news.google.com, or
twitter, but the simple aggregate sites are
becoming rare.
• Drudge headlines, October 2008:

16. The Drudge Report Report