Reviewing news websites in the new media in terms of visual communication and design: Turkish news websites

As a result of developments in communication technologies and the widespread use of the Internet, interest in online news sites is growing. For this reason, as a result of events taking place in the country and the world, and the speed of online broadcasting, readers' visits to news sites tend to increase. For this reason, it has become necessary for e-news newspapers to take care of the needs of readers and provide them with sufficient comfort by paying attention to the main format of the content, its design and the way the content is displayed to the buyer. This research aims to analyze Turkish news sites in terms of visual communication and design. For this purpose, traffic rates for the most visited news sites in Turkey have been determined using a similar website. As a result of the analysis, it was noted that news sites hurriyet.com and sozcu.com were the most visited sites. It was analyzed in accordance with design principles using screenshots taken from the pages of both sites on the same date. As a result of the application, the compatible and non-compliant parts of both sites were determined in terms of design principles. It has been seen that Sozcu.com news site is more successful than Hurriyet.com in terms of design principles.