Site Analysiskompas.com and nytimes.com
1. Adriani Yulida Kusuma
2. Ryan Permadi
3. Yohanes Mardi Dewandaru
Site View
Site View
Object Analysis
• Consistency
• Clarity
• Fonts
• Coding Technique
• Alignment• Alignment
• Metaphor
• Proximity
• Contrast
• Economy of Visual Element
• Color
• Typography
Consistency• New York Times
– The background color on the homepage or the other page is white.
– Font style is Heading 1 with the same size and type.
– The news title has same color. The color is blue.
– But, there is inconsistency. The inconsistency is on the site layout. The homepage
layout uses 4 columns layout, but when you read the article/news, the layout use 2layout uses 4 columns layout, but when you read the article/news, the layout use 2
columns layout.
• Kompas
– The background color for homepage is grey, but on the other page use various
background.
– For the homepage layout, this site uses 3 columns layout, but when read the article,
this site uses 2 columns layout.
– So, this site has many things that is inconsistence
Clarity• New York Times
– This site is unsightly to see.
– This site has one weakness. The weakness is the width of this site. The width of this
site is not automatic suitable with the monitor resolution. So, if the monitor
resolution is bigger than the width of this site, then the left and right of this site will
perform white background. It is very blinding for the eyes.
• Kompas
– This site is enjoyable when we read the article, but the homepage isn’t enjoyable as
well because there is so many advertisement.
– This site also has fixed size of site. The background on the left side and right side
that perform is grey, so this site still enjoyable to look.
Fonts
• New York Times
– The fonts that used for the content and the title is Times New Roman.
– The fonts that used for the title of the newspaper maybe use fonts that they create.
• Kompas
– The fonts that used is Calibri.
– The font color is suitable with the background color.– The font color is suitable with the background color.
Coding Technique
• New York Times
– This site doesn’t have many coding.
– This site only shows more information.
– But, there is very interest section. This section record the opinion of reader. If the
reader wants to give the opinion, the reader must login into this site before.
• Kompas• Kompas
– This site has many coding. The coding is used for showing the advertisement.
– There is a section that good and unique. That section is the advertisement with
news.
– The other section is headlines slide that include new news
Alignment
• New York Times
– This site uses left alignment for the content and center alignment for the
title.
– This site uses grid to divide news based on the category.
• Kompas• Kompas
– This site uses left alignment for all. The text starts on left side to right
side.
– This site uses grid to divide news based on the category.
Metaphor
• New York Times
– This site is made like an original newspaper.
• Kompas
– This site isn’t made like an original newspaper, just like a common
webpage.webpage.
Proximity
• New York Times
– This site divides the news by the topic, so the reader can find the
information easily.
• Kompas
– This site also divides their news by the topic. It make user easily find the– This site also divides their news by the topic. It make user easily find the
information that they need.
Contrast
• New York Times
– The contrast looks clear
– The text that connected with the other page has different color.
• Kompas
– The contrast looks clear– The contrast looks clear
– The text that connected with the other page has different color.
Economy of Visual Element
• New York Times
– This site doesn’t show many visual information, so the bandwith doesn’t
reduce.
• Kompas
– This site show many visual information such as advertisement, so the– This site show many visual information such as advertisement, so the
bandwith will be reduce, and need very long time to load the web.
Color• New York Times
– This site doesn’t use many color.
– For the text, this site use black or blue color.
– For the background, this site use white color.
• Kompas• Kompas
– This site uses many color.
– The various color is from advertisement.
– The text only uses black or blue color.
– The background is grey color and white color.
Typography
• New York Times
– All of this site is readability.
– The text content of this site doesn’t have all uppercase font.
• Kompas• Kompas
– All of this site is readability.
– The text content of this site doesn’t have all uppercase font.
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