The rating system

In order to work out what makes a bad site, we should define what makes a good site. I've looked at Tim Berners Lee's original article for some guidance.

1. Useful information
2. Easy to use
3. Open access
4. Good use of design
5. Effort has been profitably invested
6. Beneficial to use

So, in order to decide if a website is any good, it should score well on all of those. So, here is my rating system for a bad website. If a website scores notably on any of these, then it's not good.

Bad site points
Rated from 0 to 10. 0 is good, 10 is terrible.

1. Uselessness
2. Restriction of access
3. Bad design
4. Unprofitability (of effort put into the site)
5. Timewaster factor
6. Smugness

To order the sites, we need some measure of how bad a site is. We can do this with Euclidean distance, which is the sum of the squares of the scores. So, the perfect site, with all zeroes will score 0, and the worst possible site with 10 in each category (squared, means 100) will score 600. Simple!