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Navigational Complexity Metrics of a Website

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Navigation is the ease with which user traverses through a website while searching for information. The smooth is the navigation, the better are the chances of finding our concerned piece of information. Hence, it can be considered as an important parameter that contributes to the usability of the website. There are several factors that enhance the complexity of navigation of website. The important ones are website structural complexity, broken links, path length, maximum depth, etc. In this study, navigational complexity of seven websites is evaluated and compared on these parameters.

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  1. Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Divyam Pandey, Renuka Nagpal & Deepti Mehrotra

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  1. Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    M. N. Hoda

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad, Haryana, India

    Naresh Chauhan

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    S. M. K. Quadri

  4. Department of Information Technology and Systems, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Praveen Ranjan Srivastava

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Pandey, D., Nagpal, R., Mehrotra, D. (2019). Navigational Complexity Metrics of a Website. In: Hoda, M., Chauhan, N., Quadri, S., Srivastava, P. (eds) Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 731. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8848-3_41

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