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Top2. Web Network
Network means interconnection of several objects. Web network is patterns in which different web objects are connected with each other. Web objects can be a commercial web site, web document, a web blog, a web document, etc. In web network analysis, the hyperlink structure and web document structure both are included. Web Network can be represented graphically with directed edges, undirected edges or weighted edges. The Figure 1 shows the graphical representation of web network
Web network analysis is used to boost the web object’s performance. Web network can be shown theoretically by G={N, E} (Sagar et al., 2012).In this N is the total number of nodes and E is the total number of edges. In Figure 1 N={1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
2.1 Node
Another name for node is Vertex, Actor or Point. In web network node can be a web document, website, web service. When they are connected with direct edge they can be named as Neighbors (Sagar et al., 2012; Plazzl et al., 2012). If a node is connected with the group only by one connection, then is pendant node. The only node getting attention for analysis is the ego node and other node in the group are called alter node.
2.2 Edge
In Web Network, two actors are connected with each other with a connection, that connection is called Edge or Tie. Edge can be Weighted, Bounded and Directed. Two neighbor nodes can be strongly connected if there is edge from each node to each other (Plazzl et al., 2012) They are called weak connected if there is a path between them and edge orientation is not in consideration. In case of directed networking graph there are two types of link are there in-Link and Out-Link. The no of nodes pointing to that node are called in-links to that node and that node is pointing to
2.3 Path
The Path is the minimum actor in sequence to reach from one node to another. (Plazzl et al., 2012)
2.4 Diameter
It is the longest path available in web network.
2.5 Degree
Number of edges with which a node is connected. In case of directed it is the total of in-links and out links. The average of degree is the average of all degrees in network (Plazzl et al., 2012)