Sometimes, the only way to understand a site is to look deep into the technology stack and gaze upon its dark, dark soul. But we at Portent try to avoid contact with evil beings. Instead, we use force-directed diagrams. I got my nerd on big-time and whipped up a few examples:
- A healthy site thriving in its native environment
- A sad, lonely home page, stuck out in the wilderness
- Duplicate content invading and driving out native species
- Pagination tunnels as they whip to and fro in the tides
- A site relaunch that nearly gave me a heart attack
- A web site as it explodes, spawning sub-sub-sub-sub categories galore
At the end, I link to a do-it-yourself tool you can use, and make a blatant plug for a product we’ll soon offer.
A healthy site
Here’s a force-directed diagram for a healthy web site.
