siteIQ Top 5 | Drum Roll Please!

Best practices leadership in the IT industry is a moving target. Today’s leader is tomorrow’s "also ran." Leadership in one area of a Website seldom translates into leadership across the board. The question is, of course, which leading IT Websites should you track to identify best practices? We’re glad you asked.  

To identify and track which Websites are setting the pace for competitors, the siteIQ team conducts detailed, quarterly evaluations of the Websites operated by leading IT vendors in six IT industry segments. Based on recent evaluations, the Top 5 Websites in the IT industry are:

Our detailed evaluations of 22 leading IT Websites illustrates that industry leadership can, in fact, translate to leadership on the Web. Our five star performers include the Who’s Who? Of the IT industry, IBM.com, Cisco.com, Oracle.com, Microsoft.com — and Sun.com, which will be acquired by Oracle at the end of the summer. Among the sites evaluated, IBM.com is the clear industry leader. It ranks as a top performer based on meeting the most best practices benchmark criteria and clocking the highest overall usability scores.

Of course, success on the Web is a constantly moving target — and our evaluations prove that point. Once the scores were tallied, three "Fast Movers" emerged that should be on every team’s watch list. CA.com gained ground by meeting additional product marketing-related benchmark criteria. Dell.com and Juniper.net each moved up due to usability improvements. Among these fast movers, Juniper.net is the site to watch.

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