Johor Bahru, 31 Jan: UTM has been ranked the third highest among Malaysian Universities  listed by the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities, for the Jan 2016 listing, Calculations for the ranking has been subjected to  a few changes compared to the previous calculation methodology.

PRESENCE. Total number of web pages, according to Google, excluding pdf files. Weight: 10%
VISIBILITY.  Recover larger value of the two inlinks providers (Ahrefs & Majestic), instead of using the average. 20 top linking domains and their corresponding backlinks the values to be excluded. Weight: 50%
OPENNESS.  Total number of .pdf files according to Google. Weight: 10%.
EXCELLENCE. The Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) for the five year period 2009-2013. New Weight: 30%
(source: Webometrics)

Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more than 24,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. The main objective of this ranking is to motivate both institutions and scholars to have aweb presence that reflect  their activities accurately