Everybody must have heard that old idea that states...."Don’t believe in everything you are told" We can well apply it to the reading of online information. It’s nice to think that knowledge is waiting for us, just a click away, ready to be used! But instead of being something that we can wolf down, we should spend a considerable time chewing on the information, before digesting it.

There are certain criteria that a website must meet to see whether the facts it provides are reliable or not. Actually, there’s not a sole criterion for analyzing web pages, but there are some core components that should guide every analysis.  Here are some points, that I consider really important:

•        Relevance: the information's level of importance to a particular reading purpose or explicitly stated need for that information
•         Accuracy: the extent to which information contains factual and updated details that can be verified by consulting alternative and/or primary sources
•         Bias/Perspective: the position or slant toward which an author shapes information
•         Reliability: the information's level of trustworthiness based on information about the author and the publishing body.  

    Looking for relevant and reliable information can be time consuming, but I think that we can do our best if we identify those criterions that are personally relevant and try to design our own templates of websites reviews. 

Source: 
 - Coiro, Julie, "Teaching adolescents how to evaluate the quality of online information", http://www.edutopia.org/blog/evaluating-quality-of-online-info-julie-coiro
- https://vle.whs.bucks.sch.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=51043