Evaluation of criteria for assessing health websites
Table 2: Density of website assessment criteria

Code Meta-Criteria Domain Number Percent
1.0 Content relevance 56 12.0%
2.0 Content accessibility 90 19.3%
3.0 Content selection 34 7.3%
4.0 Content validity 128 27.5%
5.0 Content interchange 10 2.2%
6.0 Site transparency/credibility 78 16.7%
7.0 Links 35 7.5%
8.0 Quality assurance 9 1.9%
9.0 Safeguards 26 5.6%
  Total 466 100.0%
Note: The percentages shown above are the number of criteria elements in all 22 criteria sets in the specified domain divided by the total number of criteria elements (i.e., 466), expressed as a percentage, that is, "criteria density." Our meta-criteria set lists 9 domains and 115 criteria elements.

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