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The aim of this study is to identify the availability problems that arise on the internet news sites, to eliminate the problems and to provide recommendations to make the internet news sites more useful. According to this purpose, the availability of internet news sites in the study is revealed in the user axis with the help of the monitoring device. According to the study, on criteria such as the total monthly number of visits, the daily time spent on the site and the number of daily pages viewing per visitor, the Alexa and Similarweb data compared according to the August-September 2019 data, three news sites with similar features were selected according to the task categories that form among the 10 most clicked news sites. In this framework, the sample technique intended for work has been determined by hurriyet.com.tr, ensonhaber.com and news7.com news sites. The study was conducted with a group of 10 graduate students, including 5 men and 5 women. The participants were asked to perform their tasks of accessing the last minute news, opening the news archive, sharing the news and commenting on the news on the three specified news sites. Participants have been recorded eye movements and time to perform the task while performing these tasks with a monitoring device. At the end of the study, the participants were asked for their views on the availability of the internet news sites they performed their tasks. The data obtained by this study has been analyzed by the visual analysis method and recommendations have been made to make news sites more useful by identifying the emerging availability problems.

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