Usability analysis of MUSIC.LK.

Web development is an art which  is linking to science. When developing a web site the designer should have to look at on marketing view point also. Hove ever ultimately the web site should be a user friendly one.

Based on 25point website usability check list we can analyze user friendliness of any website. So based on that today I’m going to analyses one of famous entertainment website, “music.lk”.

Music.lk sri lanka’s number one online music provider gives the opportunity to surf millions of songs, thousands of artists. They mainly provide Sinhala/Tamil mp3 and Music Videos  Free Download facility for PC or Mobile. 

Their vision is to “increase the profile of Sri Lankan music world wide and to see that the benefits from the increased profile go back to artists and professionals in the music industry”

Now you have some idea about music.lk. So now it’s time to apply 25-point website usability checklist to  Music.lk. The 25 point checklist is divided into 4 roughly equal sections, namely Accessibility, Identity, Navigation, and Content.

Accessibility

Music.lk takes around 6 seconds to load its full home page. The loading time is fairly reasonable. Because the home page is contain with many videos and pictures. The main text color is white in the ash color background which visible and adequate. Font size and pattern is eye catching.

 

background color changes

When you move the cursor on top of each song/ main topic you could see the background color of that particular song is changing. And cursor mark also changes.

not‐found/404 page

The main drawback of this site is the “not‐found/404 page”. In that page does not have a link to home page or music.lk logo.

Identity

The logo

As you can see, company logo is placed on the upper left corner of the page. But its dose not has a tag line. From all the menus and pages it is possible to come back to the home page without any problem and the total home page is visible around 7 seconds. 

Music.lk is a well arranged web site. But to find details about music.lk there does not has clear direct path “information or about us “. You can find those details under “contact” tab. So I think music.lk should develop direct tab for “info”.

As I mentioned above, under “contact” tab we can see both info & contact details. Under contact details, telephone numbers, email address n office address r available.

  

Navigation

Main navigation is so easy as the main tabs namely, Home, Music videos, Audio songs, DJ & remixes, Tamil, Artist, Blogger and Contact are placed visibly on the top strip of the page. Apart to that main navigations in right end of the strip have direct links to their facebook page, youtube channel and Google plus.

top strip

All song titles are with the particular picture of the music video. So its easy to identify the songs.

Music.lk logo has link to home page as when we click on the logo it'll automatically take us to the homepage. Search bar is available at the top ribbon in the right corner because of that users can find any song by name/artist.

Music.lk has many sponsors. So that it has many advertisements. But music.lk team has nicely positioned those ads with minimum disturbance to users. But its better if they can keep their logo top of the site, rather than under the advertisements.

Content

As I mentioned earlier meager headings are clear and descriptive. In the home page under the heading, have 9 new top rated songs tumble. Behind that tumbles we can see changing images which related to those top rated songs.

Home page

When you click on a song you’re going to download page. In there have all detail about the song such as artist, Music, Lyrics writer, Video Director, number of downloads n views. In latter part of that page visitors can leave comments about the particular song.  

There are no pop-ups in music.lk. But can see number of advertisements.

The URL is so mining full. It’s describes the content as it is.

 Finally according to my knowledge Music.lk can be known as one of best websites in Sri Lanka even though it has fewer number of problems.