Inter-page access metrics for web site structure and performance
Vaidehi Takalikar, Padmaja Joshi · 2016
A lot of research is done on the impact of website design on site's performance. It includes use of CSS, applets, Ajax, etc. for improving the performance. However, interconnectivity between pages through hyperlinks and its impact on website performance and website structure is little explored. This aspect of a website design is explored in this paper. This brings out the time required to move from the current page to any other page of the website. Two metrics capturing the inter-page access based hyperlinks are proposed, and their relationship with the website structure and website performance is explored. The metric computation is illustrated with the help of dummy website. The impact of the website hyperlink structure on the performance is studied through six real websites from academic and e-Governance domain.