Website classification on information and entertainment profiles

The present study classified 43 websites on information and entertainment profiles. The website profile comprised informativeness, organisation of information elements, entertainment properties and organisation of entertainment elements. The results revealed that out of 43 websites, 8 were high on both information and entertainment profiles, 15 were high on information and low on entertainment profiles, 6 were low on information and high on entertainment profiles and 14 were low on both information and entertainment profiles.

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