* * * * * Graphing websites > HTML (HyperText Markup Language) consists of so- called tags, like the A > tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other > tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be > represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a > graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at. > Via YARGB [1], “Websites as graphs [2]” He's even made the applet available [3] for use. It's pretty cool. Here's the structure of my homepage [4]: [Graph of http://www.conman.org/people/spc/] [5] A fairly simple structure, and that grey blob in the upper left hand corner is the section with all the metadata for the page. For comparrison, here is The Boston Diaries [6]: [Graph of http://boston.conman.org/] [7] And again, that grey blob in the lower right hand corner is the section, with the multitude of metadata. This page is still well structured, but with a lot more content. It's a pretty cool app. [1] http://yargb.blogspot.com/2006/05/websites-as-graphs.html [2] http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm [3] http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/ [4] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/ [5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2006/05/30/graph.conman.org.png [6] https://boston.conman.org/ [7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2006/05/30/graph.boston.conman.org.png Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org .