Effect of Hypertext Node Size on Efficiency of Information Search on WWW

In this study, the effect of hypertext node size on efficiency of information search on WWW was examined.There were three levels of the node size,130,260 and 520 characters respectively.The efficiency of information search was measured by three criteria,searching time,number of hit and re\|hit nodes for locating the right node.It was found that the searching time was increased slightly with the size of hypertext nodes(p 0.05 ).The number of nodes hit and re\|hit during searching were increased significantly with the number of nodes(p 0.01 ). It was concluded that the number of nodes was an important variable to be considered in the design of hypertext.