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While I'm not sure that it does anything useful, the Websites as Graphs visualizer sure is fun to play with. Although there is nothing in terms of an explanation of how the graphs are calculated, it's an easy assumption to make that there is some sort of link analysis going on. You might think most sites would look the same, but it's quite interesting to see the very different structures the visualizer comes up with for different sites. For example, here's Download Squad:
You can check out a few more after the jump.
While here's CNN:
And here's Apple.com:
Prepare to lose some time that you'll never get back.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentspaulAug 18th 2006 11:41AM
It looks like it may just be analyzing the homepage. Here's the key they give below the image they generate...
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
RamenosAug 18th 2006 1:49PM
Hi !
I knew it already. That's interesting and fun. You are able to have a new view of your structure of your Website. I have an interest for cartography associated with Internet. I will write an article about Internet cartography soon on my blog.
nb : sorry if my english is not perfect, I'am a french student and I go on your blog everyday =)
TushAug 18th 2006 2:08PM
Wow! This is awesome.
Robert WetzlmayrAug 18th 2006 2:25PM
There's a vast amount of these stunning visuals over at Flickr. The generator site is run by Sala - the same guy who sells one thousend paintings of plain blue numbers, a meme honored by being mentioned at Seth Godin's blog.
Mark SisleyAug 18th 2006 5:03PM
You can look at their source code if you look further down the page. I don't really care to look at it myself to figure out what they're doing, but if someone less lazy than I comes along, I encourage them to take a look at it and determine just what it's doing :)
SPIVYAug 19th 2006 2:31PM
Very interesting, this is how i develop sites, so it is funny to see it done after a site is done.
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Cheap Web HostingSep 6th 2006 6:45PM
Really cool visualization of websites. Does anybody know where to find the source code of this applet?