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In-page traffic distribution display ● Original idea – Allow a website administrator to see the flow of users from current page to all available destinations.

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1 In-page traffic distribution display ● Original idea – Allow a website administrator to see the flow of users from current page to all available destinations – Present information either in form of progress bars or semi-transparent overlays – Throw in informations about sources from which users came to this page – Should be a “context” data source (providing simple background view of situation)

2 Evil reality intrudes ● Available data somewhat skimpy, and so pageA -> pageB visit statistics are quite meaningless ● Largest sources of traffic – unknown, Google ● Result: right now, backend offers only global link popularity data ● Also, got tangled up with a nasty bug in Opera – had to change target browser in the middle of development

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4 Benefits ● Administrator can compare usefulness of links without digging through reports ● No modifications of source website needed – No diving into unmaintainable cruft! – Access logs are the only required data source ● So simple that even a manager can use and understand it

5 Building blocks ● Client: Firefox with Greasemonkey extension (allows the user to run their own Javascript on pages they visit) ● Web Server: just about anything ● Statistics Server: Apache with a couple of Python scripts.

6 Browser Web Server Request Web Page Statistics Server

7 Browser (link extraction) Statistics Server Web Server

8 Browser Statistics Server (data served by Python script) Web Server XMLHttpRequest asks for popularity of given URLs Number of visits for every requested URL

9 Browser (process and display received data) Statistics ServerWeb Server

10 Demo ● Or static screenshots if statistics server (my home machine) is down for some reason.

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