Espncricinfo.com REVIEW

GENRE : SPORTS

CONTENTS:

                      Cricinfo.com is one of the sites that is around here for a while. Primary source of information for the site is obviously the cricket matches but their collection & handling of statistics is the ultimate USP of the site .  Columns by cricket experts in regular intervals and interviews with playes  is also a talking point of the site. It is equipped with a clever search engine touted as stats guru which can be optimised in unique ways for a query.

ACTIVITY FREQUENCY:

                  It is easily the most active sites around, after the acquisition by ESPN they certainly upped their class by adding ball by ball commentary of each major games and sometimes county games. It’s certainly a mammoth task of real time updating each matches, I wonder how they are managing this with aplomb.

SOCIAL NETWORKING:

                             The site boasts a facebook and a twitter account, with facebook integeration to their login. Twitter feed is responsive, active and sometimes over enthusiastic. But they never made the kind of impact they are creating in twitter over in facebook.

FEEDBACK SYSTEM:

                             The present feedback system is based on two gateways. First during live matches and the next is for the articles/columns published. One example for this is during initial stages of the t20 wc 2012, a lot of users are complaining about the irritating split screen view in star cricket during some ball deliveries, they promptly reverted thanks to feedbacks.

GLOBAL PRESENCE:

                             They have a large fan base across the world and they offer live streaming of cricket matches in US, English is the only language offered but its not a major concern because more than 100 years of cricket only produced 10 major playing nations all equipped with basic English skills,

MEMBERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

                             Members of the site can gain access to some childish games and to the comments/ feedbacks section. Site is almost open to remaining contents for everyone.

STYLE vs SUBSTANCE:

                             The site throughout boasts a boxy structure with contents in a cluttered manner. There are definitely many sites with a better design. One can cover this flaw by defining it as “CLASSIC” though. Substance clearly holds the upper hand here.

Ad PRESENCE:

                             Ad’s are certainly a worry if its showing up then and there. This site is clobbered by ad’s on a moderate scale making reading a pain.

MOBILE VERSION:

                             They possess a mobile site (m.cricinfo.com) , which boasts of a minimalistic interface even sometimes making you feel “too simple na?”. It also possess a native android / ios / RIM app.

TRAFFIC RANK & PAGE LOAD:

                             According to alexa.com espncricinfo.com ranks 18 in India and 248 globally, with page load time of 2.946 sec.

                            

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