Application of the clickstream-based web page importance metric in web site ranking and rank initialization of infant web pages

Abstract

One of the main expectations of Web surfers is the inclusion of accurate and fresh result set in search engines' outcomes. Moreover, regarding the limited time and patience of nowadays Web users, they need to be advised on the significance of the Web domain they entered. Due to the exponentially growing and dynamic nature of the World Wide Web, considering these demands for Web crawlers with the existing Web page ranking and importance calculation methods are unachievable, expensive or time-consuming. Therefore, proposing novel heuristics in order to empower the search answer set is the concern of many researchers in this area. In this paper, we employ our previously proposed novel Web page importance metric of LogRank in order to calculate Web site significance value and to include the newly uploaded or infant Web pages into search result set to meet the mentioned expectations of Web surfers. We append our experiment on above matters through analyzing UTM University server log file and over UTM University Web domain.