Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Where have you been from here? Trials in hypertext systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Combining evidence for automatic web session identification
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Information search and re-access strategies of experienced web users
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Relevance and Impact of Tabbed Browsing Behavior on Web Usage Mining
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Web search strategies: The influence of Web experience and task type
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Application of automatic topic identification on Excite Web search engine data logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Multitasking during Web search sessions
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Towards tabbing aware recommendations
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
Measuring web page revisitation in tabbed browsing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MouseHints: easing task switching in parallel browsing
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
No search result left behind: branching behavior with browser tabs
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Time, topic and trawl: stories about how we reach our past
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PRiSMA: searching images in parallel
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
The impact of user-browser interaction on web performance
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Facilitating parallel web browsing through multiple-page view
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online multitasking and user engagement
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Incorporating the surfing behavior of web users into pagerank
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
SAuth: protecting user accounts from password database leaks
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security
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Parallel browsing describes a behavior where users visit Web pages in multiple concurrent threads. Web browsers explicitly support this by providing tabs. Although parallel browsing is more prevalent than linear browsing online, little is known about how users perform this activity. We study the use of parallel browsing through a log-based study of millions of Web users and present findings on their behavior. We identify a power law distribution in browser metrics comprising "outclicks" and tab switches, which signify the degree of parallel browsing. We find that users switch tabs at least 57.4% of the time, but user activity, measured in pageviews, is split among tabs rather than increasing overall activity. Finally, analysis of a subset of the logs focused on Web search shows that while the majority of users do not branch from search engine result pages, the degree of branching is higher for non-navigational queries. Our findings have design implications for Web sites and browsers, search interfaces, and log analysis.