[robot180]

These are some good ideas, but I disagree with almost everyone. First of all, I meant from the aspect of your own website, not looking at others.

I believe that the most important part of a good website is user feedback. I learned from leading my web site team that I can come up with the best design ever, but no one else likes it. I think the users, not the creators, have to critique the site and give feedback. My website team considers all feedback and puts an emphasis on considering all feedback, even if it is negative or if it is a crazy idea.

If I could pick a second choice, it would be traffic and popularity. You can design a website that has potential to be good, but you need people to use it to be good. Myspace is a good site (useful, not functional) mainly because just about everyone has it. Google Talk is not a good program because no one ever uses it. So I think traffic or popularity would be second most important.