How are web characteristics evolving?

Authors:
João Miranda;Daniel Gomes
Affiliations:
Foundation for National Scientific Computing, 1708-001 Lisboa, Portugal;Foundation for National Scientific Computing, 1708-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Venue:
Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The Web is a hypertextual environment in permanent evolution. There are new technologies and Web publishing behaviors emerging everyday. This study presents trends on the evolution of the Web, derived from the comparison of two characterizations of a web portion performed within a 5 year interval. The Portuguese Web was used as a case study. Several metrics regarding content and site characteristics were analyzed.