The COI said it planned to extend its current guidelines on measuring the quality and value of government websites to encourage areas such as social media.
It expects to elicit views from people working directly with government websites and bloggers.
COI is also running its review on Twitter at www.twitter.com/digigov.
The review will lead to new guidelines, produced in coordination with the Cabinet Office, to create a common framework for government departments to measure website costs, website usage and website quality.
For example, the Smoke Free website should also be measuring the number of users who sign up to visit a stop-smoking clinic or who request more helpful information.
Alex Butler, COI's director of transformational strategy, said the review would transform the experience for its users, and save money for government and ultimately the tax payer.
The review follows a survey of 153 central government organisations between October and December 2006 for the report Government on the Internet. More than a quarter of organisations did not provide the costs of website provision, 16% of organisations did not provide any data about how their main corporate websites were being used and the Government concluded that the overall quality of government websites had improved little since 2002.
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