Spatial analysis of the World Wide Web

Narushige Shiode; Martin Dodge

doi:10.3406/netco.1999.1421

Spatial analysis of the World Wide Web

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Abstract

This study utilises spatial analysis techniques and geographical information systems technologies to explore the structure of the World Wide Web in terms of node connectivity. We investigate the number of homepages and the reciprocal hyperlinks between 180 major global Internet domains. The hyperlink structure of the Web is treated as a network and a virtual distance between these domains is calculated using a shortest path methodology from which the mini-sum distance of all the sites is determined. The results are presented using a celestial map style of visualisation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-24
Journal	Networks and Communication Studies (NETCOM)
Volume	13
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3406/netco.1999.1421
Publication status	Published - Jan 1999

Keywords

Computer science and informatics
World-Wide Web connectivity
distance
hyperlink structure
spatial analysis

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Spatial analysis of the World Wide Web

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