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A characterization of the various activities connected with the usage of the World Wide Web is measured and evaluated for their effect on Web usage. The data for the characterization could not be used conclusively to derive Web usage patterns since a number of data from commercial, educational and corporate institutions are not available. The data is also lacking in the sense that no metrics can be derived from international users.

The scope of a locally maintained hyperlink database studied in a previous research effort on an integrated scheme for an intelligent publishing environment is extended to include the entire World Wide Web. The addition of hypertext databases to the Web infrastructure has a positive effect on link maintenance, referential integrity, navigation and visualization. An architecture and migration path was developed for the deployment of the Atlas scalable hyperlink database.

A three-week survey of user behavior during utilization of the XMosaic client was presented. The study, which was conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology, looked at user navigation methods and real interface events. In addition, a client-side log file, which contained 43,000 entries, was analyzed to determine ways to improve pages, locations and browsers for the World Wide Web.

The results of the second World Wide Web User Survey conducted over the Internet are discussed. The survey, which ran between Oct.-Nov. 1994, consisted of different polls on user demography, browsing utilization and feedback for Web authors as well as user attitude toward Web commercialization. It employed sophisticated technology to enable user responses across different surveys to be monitored and generated more than 18,000 responses.

A prototype framework for facilitating the publishing of hypertext documents on the World-Wide Web is introduced. The environment, which was implemented on a 250-machine network and written in Perl 4.36, exploits the advantages of link database systems within the Web. Specifically, it automatically generates meta-information for every document, relays meta-information to a local WHOIS ++ server and places documents in an area for immediate access by users.

Vast amounts of attention and resources have recently been devoted toward the Word-Wide Web (WWW) [1], but relatively little research has been conducted examining Web usage and societal implications. With […]