Mapping a Local Web Domain

Abstract

In this study, we crawled a local Web domain, created its graph representation, and analyzed the network structure. The results of network analysis revealed local scale-free patterns consistent with previous research on the Web. To discover topical communities of the local domain, link- based co-citation analysis was performed to measure pair-wise similarities. Based on the co-citation graph, a visualization was produced to map the networked domain semantically. All of this offers a way to investigate a local Web structure and to make it more intuitively understandable.