• Who is responsible for the site?
  
• Are the author and the author’s status clearly indicated?
  
• Is it a commercial, personal, governmental, or academic site? The URL can tell you about the nature of the web site. Personal pages often contain the name of the web site’s owner, or a description like users. The domain name gives an indication of the web site’s origin. The URL of (US) Government sites contain .gov, .mil or .us. The URL of
  Educational sites (US) contain .edu and of nonprofit organizations .org.
  

Content

• What is the purpose of the site?
  
• Is the text of the site well-written?
  
• Is the information of the site well-documented and accurate?
  
• Does the site offer anything unique, or is it just more of the same?

Design

• Is the site well-designed? Did the top page contain all the information you needed or could it easily be retrieved from another page of the site?
  
• Are there any spelling or grammatical errors?
  
• Do all the hypertext links work?
  
• Are the graphics on the site page clear and useful, or do they just distract your attention?
  

Value

• Did you learn anything?
  
• Was the page worth visiting?
  
• Would you include the site in your bookmark list?
  
• How many other sites link to this web site? Using Google (Advanced search) you can find out. Choose Page-specific search and fill in the URL.
  
  AltaVista also offers this option. Fill in Link: followed by the URL.
  

Time

• Does the material have a limited period of validity?
  
• Is there an indication of the latest update of the page?
  
• Is the page obsolete?
  

• 
  Internet Detective
  
• Evaluating Web Pages by UC Berkeley Library.
  
• Getting it Right: Verifying Sources on the Net article by Sabrini I. Paciffici
  
• Information Quality (IQ) pages of The Virtual Chase
  
• Evaluating Quality on the Net by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries at Babson College in Massachusetts.

A valuable bibliography on evaluating Internet resources is maintained by Nicole J. Auer, Library Instruction Coordinator at Virginia Tech University Libraries.

From http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/library/instruction/www/onlinecourse/assessment.html