Friday, January 12, 2018

Web Application's Navigation Paths and Page Performance


I have been trying to find out a better way to visualize and better understand how a web application is being accessed by the end users and how the end user journey looks like and which pages are indirectly became the close groups based on how the end users are distributed and their interests in the application features. And, finally how smooth is the path between pages..

And, stumbled on a wonderful visualization tool called Gephi. And, below is how a sample website looks like depicting the user navigation paths, the page grouping and page performance which is characterized by the weights of the path between the pages. In the graph terminology, the pages are nodes and the paths between pages are called edges which are attributed by response times as weight.