Exploration of the network spun by website users
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Submitted version
Author(s)
Evans, T
Argent-Katwala, A
Harder, U
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Using data stretching over more than 5 years for the website http://gallery.future-i.com/ this paper investigates basic properties of the popularity of pictures and the way users navigate through the website. We find that the rank frequency plot of the downloaded pictures follows a Zipf law. The download rate of individual popular pictures over time resembles that seen of infection rates of diseases. The graph created by successive downloads of pictures shows a power law that does not change over different time periods. We discuss how our findings can be modelled and how they are of importance to website performance.
Date Issued
2007-07
Citation
2007, pp.118-121
Source Title
23rd Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 2007)
Start Page
118
End Page
121
Copyright Statement
© 2007 The Authors
Identifier
http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/Faculties/HMSAS/Business/UKPEW/index.htm
Source
23rd Annual UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 2007)
Source Place
Edge Hill University, UK,
Start Date
2007-07-09
Finish Date
2007-07-10
Coverage Spatial
Edge Hill University, UK,