Techniques and Metrics for Improving Website Structure

In this work two distinct metrics are proposed, which aim to quantify the importance of a web page based on the visits it receives by the users and its location within the website. Subsequently, certain guidelines are presented, which can be used to reorganize the website, taking into account the optimization of these metrics. Finally we evaluate the proposed algorithms using real-world website data and verify that they exhibit more elaborate behavior than a related simpler technique. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.8 [Software Engineering]: Metrics ? complexity measures, performance measures, product metrics. H.5.4 [Information Systems]: Hypertext/ Hypermedia ? architectures, navigation, user issues. General Terms Algorithms, Measurement, Performance, Design, Experimentation Keywords Web Metrics, Web Organization, Log File Processing

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Eleni Christopoulou, John D. Garofalakis, Christos Makris, Yannis Panagis, Athanasios Psaras-Chatzigeorgiou, Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Athanasios K. Tsakalidis
• Keywords: Distinct Metrics, Internet Technology, Keywords Web Metrics, Product Metrics, WWW 2003