Trends in Web Characteristics

João Miranda, Daniel Gomes
2009 2009 Latin American Web Congress  
The Web is permanently changing, with new technologies and publishing behaviors emerging everyday. It is important to track trends on the evolution of the Web to develop efficient tools to process its data. For instance, Web trends influence the design of browsers, crawlers and search engines. This study presents trends on the evolution of the Web derived from the analysis of 3 characterizations performed within an interval of 5 years. The Web portion used as a case study was the Portuguese
more » ... Several metrics regarding site and content characteristics were analyzed.
doi:10.1109/la-web.2009.28 dblp:conf/la-web/MirandaG09 fatcat:fqwif7u5rzhinntzb7m2hy7rsy