An application of TOPSIS for ranking internet web browsers


Shahram Rostampour


Web browser is one of the most important internet facilities for surfing the internet. A good web browser must incorporate literally tens of features such as integrated search engine, automatic updates, etc. Each year, ten web browsers are formally introduced as top best reviewers by some organizations. In this paper, we propose the implementation of TOPSIS technique to rank ten web browsers. The proposed model of this paper uses five criteria including speed, features, security, technical support and supported configurations. In terms of speed, Safari is the best web reviewer followed by Google Chrome and Internet Explorer while Opera is the best web reviewer when we look into 20 different features. We have also ranked these web browsers using all five categories together and the results indicate that Opera, Internet explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome are the best web browsers to be chosen.


DOI: j.dsl.2012.09.001

Keywords: TOPSIS ,Web browser ,Internet

How to cite this paper:

Rostampour, S. (2012). An application of TOPSIS for ranking internet web browsers.Decision Science Letters, 1(2), 53-58.


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