During the rapid growth of World Wide Web in the recent past, ?usability? and ?navigation? have emerged as problems of concern to the research community. Large web systems are being made so complex that often the users have to make excessive amount of ?navigational efforts? to complete their tasks. We identify certain aspects which aggravate the ?navigational burden? of a user. Vital amongst them are, complex navigational structure of web, unfamiliarity of users with the website, and disagreement between the research community and practitioners. This paper is based on the empirical analysis of an experimental data obtained from the prospective students who were invited to interact with the websites of few world class educational institutions from four different countries. The data allows us to determine that despite active research in the area of usability engineering, the users still experience heavy ?navigational burden? while performing same task using similar systems. The users do not observe any improvement in their ?familiarity? with these web systems even when they interact with more than one such systems which serve similar functions. This leads us to propose a solution with a different approach that is; to resort to ?Generic User Interface? as a ?standard? for organizations serving similar functions such as universities, hospitals etc. We then present some convincing arguments to support our proposal and answer some of the opponent?s voices, followed by a brief discussion on the future work to be done in this direction.