1. The document introduces webometrics, which is the study of web-based phenomena using quantitative techniques and informetric methods.
2. Webometrics is concerned with measuring various aspects of the web like websites, web pages, hyperlinks, and search engine results. It examines topics at both a huge scale like the number of global web pages, and a smaller scale like the number of blogs mentioning a specific person.
3. Webometrics analyzes both new problems reflected on the web like election websites and social networking, as well as older problems reflected online like the spread of ideas and public opinion. The difference between the similar term "cybermetrics" is that cybermetrics also includes non-web