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Trends in Web characteristics

The Web is a hypertextual environment that is on permanent evolution. There are new technologies and Web publishing behaviors that emerge everyday. It is important to track trends on its evolution to develop efficient tools to process its data. This study presents trends on the evolution of the Web derived from the analysis of the evolution of a Web portion by comparing characterizations performed within 5 years of interval. The Web portion used as a case study was the Portuguese Web. Several metrics regarding content and site characteristics were analyzed. We believe that the obtained trends are representative of the evolution of the Web in general.

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