Hyperlink Network Analysis of Iran’s Cultural Religious Sites in Cyberspace

In cyberspace, a hyperlink from one website into another one is a link that connects various websites into each other. Connecting sites by hyperlink provides a nested network from information resources that its extent hypothetically covers the whole web space. In this research, I try to study a hyperlink network which is formed among sites presented by so-called “Filtering Page” at “www.peyvandha.ir” URL. This research aims to study link structure in this networks and recognize key nodes or that of key sites. To do so, after reviewing theoretical foundations of two basic approaches in Webometrics & Hyperlink Network Analysis in the field of social network analysis, I consider a 2370 list of religious-cultural sites presented by filtering page on 5 different sections as an input list for web crawler of SocioBot. The findings indicate that there are just 3 hyperlink networks with very low density in macro level and just 2 key sites in micro level, as well.