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Guys can you help me out how to differentiate the following website type:

(1) webbed
(2) broad
(3) hierarchical
(4) deep

I'm trying to search out for this type of website in search engines but until now.. . I can't find it... Guys please help me out in this one... Okay.. Thanks Guys. and Have a nice day ahead... That question is for our subject web page design and development...

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A practical way to handle the four labels in an assignment is to treat them as descriptive cues, not formal categories, and measure them. gave a useful conceptual start; the steps below turn that into a repeatable classroom exercise and into concrete design decisions.

  1. Crawl or export the site URL list (Screaming Frog, server logs or a simple spider).
  2. Build a link graph and compute three metrics: maximum click depth (longest shortest path from the homepage), average branching factor (mean number of section links per section page), and cross-link ratio (percent of internal links that jump between sections).
  3. Compare those metrics to observed user paths from analytics to see what people actually use. Run a simple tree test or card sort if the IA needs validation.

Design implications tied to those measurements:

  • Long click-depth signals a need for persistent wayfinding: breadcrumbs, on-page table of contents and stronger site search. Consider flattening where task flows get lost.
  • High branching at upper levels calls for strong top-level grouping, progressive disclosure and clear labels (mega menus or grouped navigation work well for many choices).
  • High cross-linking (dense graph) benefits from contextual linking, clear anchor text, and controls to avoid circular journeys; strong faceted search helps users with many lateral paths.

A short class deliverable: pick three target sites (news, marketplace, docs), run the crawl, report the three metrics, classify each site using those numbers, and propose one low-effort nav change per site. Note that most real sites mix patterns; the goal is to align structure with primary user tasks and validate choices with simple tests rather than rely only on labels.

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and guys if you want cite me some example site that is categorized as mentioned above... (hierarchial, deep, webbed and broad..)

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Hierarchical : tree structure each page is accessible from its parent(s) and child(ren), by link
webbed: multiple links and pathways exist from page to other pages regardlesss of the position in the site structure.
typically web sites are a combination of both, there are usually links to FAQ and RELATED PAGES from everywhere deep, there are more levels th the structure, more branches to the tree, than there are branches on a level
broad, there are more branches at a level, than there are levelsit is somewhat irrelevant, to even look for a difference at a semantic level
a web site structure is determined by the information the site designer is trying to convey,
depth and the complexity of the links reflect the data structure.
In complex sites the designer has small need to monitor site structure, typically the structure comes from urls & options stored in a database.
MS is broad deep hierarchical webbed site
my site.com is narrow deep webbed site, a lot of information on two main headings, where each links to the other.

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Hierarchical : tree structure each page is accessible from its parent(s) and child(ren), by link
webbed: multiple links and pathways exist from page to other pages regardlesss of the position in the site structure.
typically web sites are a combination of both, there are usually links to FAQ and RELATED PAGES from everywhere deep, there are more levels th the structure, more branches to the tree, than there are branches on a level
broad, there are more branches at a level, than there are levelsit is somewhat irrelevant, to even look for a difference at a semantic level
a web site structure is determined by the information the site designer is trying to convey,
depth and the complexity of the links reflect the data structure.
In complex sites the designer has small need to monitor site structure, typically the structure comes from urls & options stored in a database.
MS is broad deep hierarchical webbed site
my site.com is narrow deep webbed site, a lot of information on two main headings, where each links to the other.

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