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Tauscher, L., Greenberg, S., "How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems", International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 47, 1, July 1997, pp. 97-137. Google

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abstract ;;Quote: users continually add new web pages to their repertoire of visited pages
abstract+;;Quote: people tend to revisit pages just visited, access only a few pages frequently, browse in very small clusters of pages, and generate only short sequences of repeated URL paths
abstract+;;Quote: a list of recently visited URLs is better than a history stack
100 ;;Quote: the Back button is heavily used while Forward is seldom used
100 ;;Quote: the Home button is lightly used
112 ;;Quote: the primary activity in a web browser is navigating via anchors; use of the hotlist and history list remain infrequent
118 ;;Quote: 40% chance that the next URL matches one of the six previous URLs; 48% for last 20
118 ;;Quote: on average, subjects visited 60% of their pages only once, 4% four times, and a handful frequently
118+;;Quote: frequently visited pages include personal pages, start-up page, organization home page, search engines, authored pages, etc.
133 ;;Quote: a history list of 10 unique URLs retrieves 47% of visited URLs, compared to 58% repeated URLs and 40% for stack-based history
133+;;Quote: a stack-based history list is better than recency for the two most recent URLs


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