• DocumentCode
    3260168
  • Title

    Statistical Properties of Portals´ Users Activity

  • Author

    Chmiel, Anna ; Kowalska, Kamila ; Holyst, Janusz A.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Phys., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    41
  • Lastpage
    45
  • Abstract
    We investigate the behavior of users at the Web portal. We focus on transitions between two subpages, using the information about the path of the users. We construct a weighted network with portal subpages being its nodes and the weights of edges defined as a number of transition from between different subpages. We scrutinize the properties of such a network as a distribution of weights and strengths that corresponds to the power-law relation, as well as the statistics of users behavior. The latter brings interesting results: the average number of distinct subpages visited during the n-th step of a visit scales as a square root relation.
  • Keywords
    portals; statistical analysis; Web portal user activity; portal subpage; power-law relation; square root relation; statistical property; user behavior; Data analysis; Humans; Informatics; Information resources; Internet; Navigation; Physics; Portals; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; complex networks; human dynamics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Social Informatics, 2009. SOCINFO '09. International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Warsaw
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3706-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SocInfo.2009.13
  • Filename
    5230713