We perform an analysis of the way individual users navigate in the Web. We focus primarily in the temporal patterns of they return to a given page. The return probability as a function of time as well as the distribution of time intervals between consecutive visits are measured and found to be independent of the level of activity of single users. The results indicate a rich variety of individual behaviors and seem to preclude the possibility of defining a characteristic frequency for each user in his/her visits to a single site. © 2009 ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
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Gonçalves, B., & Ramasco, J. J. (2009). Towards the characterization of individual users through web analytics. In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Vol. 5 LNICST, pp. 2247–2254). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_102
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