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WebVAT: Web page visualization and analysis tool

  • Stony Brook University

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Abstract

WebVAT is an open-source platform-independent visualization tool designed to facilitate Web page analysis. The tool, built on top of the Mozilla Web browser, exposes Mozilla's internal representation of Web pages, Frame Tree, reflecting HTML rendering information. Compared to HTML DOM analyzers, WebVAT provides access to a cleaner, fuller, and more accurate data structure, which contains layout information, reflecting changes made by CSS and some types of dynamic content. WebVAT provides a framework for experiments and evaluations of algorithms over the Frame Tree. WebVAT also captures user interaction with the browser and can be used for data collection. WebVAT is a working tool actively used in the HearSay [10] project. This paper describes the architecture, design, and some of the applications of WebVAT.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Engineering - 7th International Conference, ICWE 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages516-520
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)3540735968, 9783540735960
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event7th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2007 - Como, Italy
Duration: Jul 16 2007Jul 20 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4607 LNCS

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2007
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityComo
Period07/16/0707/20/07

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