Web Watch: What's Related to My Web Site?
Netscape’s What’s Related Service
One possibly underused facility in the Netscape browser is its What’s Related feature. When viewing a Web page, clicking on the What’s Related button in the Netscape toolbar (shown in Figure 1) will display related information about the page being viewing.
The information displayed by use of the What’s Related service is illustrated in Figure 2. As can be seen a number of related Web sites will be displayed. In addition information about the Web site will be displayed, including its popularity, the number of pages on the Web site and the number of links to the Web site.
About The What’s Related Service
What’s Related is a feature of Netscape Communicator that is designed to “help you figure out where to go next when you’re surfing the web or drilling for information”. By clicking on the icon ion the toolbar you can see sites that provides information or offers products and services that are similar or connected to those offered by the site that you’re currently viewing. You can go directly to a related site by selecting one of the links in the drop-down menu, or select the Detailed List to see a web page with a list of related sites.
Figure 1: Netscape’s What’s Related Service
The What’s Related data is created by Alexa Internet. Alexa uses crawls the Web to create and categorise related Web sites for millions of web URLs. Alexa uses links on the crawled pages to find related sites. The day-to-day use of What’s Related also helps build and refine the data. As the service is used the requested URLs are logged. By looking at high-level trends, Netscape and Alexa can deduce relationships between Web sites. For example, if thousands of users go directly from site A to site B, the two sites are likely to be related.
Once all the relationships have been established and the links have been checked, the top ten related sites for each URL are chosen by looking at the strength of the relationship between the sites.
Each month, Alexa recrawls the web and rebuilds the data to pull in new sites and to refine the relationships between the existing sites. New sites with strong relationships to a site will automatically appear in the What’s Related list for that site by displacing any sites with weaker relationships.
Figure 2: Netscape’s What’s Related Service
Note that since the relationships between sites are based on strength, What’s Related lists are not necessarily balanced. Site A may appear in the list for Site B, but Site B may not be in the list for Site A. Generally this happens when the number of sites with strong relationships is greater than ten or when sites do not have similar enough content.
As an example of this difference in content, consider the relationship between several major Internet sites: Netscape is a browser and server software company as well as an Internet portal, so the What’s Related list will contain a mix of these types of companies. When visiting a “pure” Internet portal, you might see Netscape Netcenter in the list; however, when you visit Netcenter, you might not see that “pure” portal in the Netcenter What’s Related list because several other browser and server software companies are included along with the related Internet portals.
Further information about Netscape’s What’s Related service is available on the Netscape Web site [1]. A What’s Related FAQ is also available [2], from which the above description was taken.
It should be noted that Netscape’s What’s Related service was an early example of an RDF application. Brief information about the implementation in Mozilla is available at the Mozilla Web site [3].
Survey
On 21st and 23rd October 2000 the What’s Related service was used to obtain information for the main server hosted by UK Higher Educational Institutions, based on the HESA list [4].
Information on the popularity of the Web server, the number of pages on the Web sites and the number of links to the Web site were recorded. Links to the What’s Related service for each institution are provided in the survey data, allowing the current information to be obtained.
Findings
A summary of the popularity data, numbers of pages on Web site and numbers of links to Web server is given below.
Popularity
The five most popular Web servers, based on the information provided by Netscape’s What’s Related Service, is given in Table 1.
| Institution | Position In Popularity Table | Current Details |
| Open University | 7,221 | Try it |
| Sheffield | 7,238 | Try it |
| Southampton | 8,259 | Try it |
| Nottingham | 12,766 | Try it |
| Cambridge | 16,911 | Try it |
Numbers of Pages Indexed
The five Web servers with the most pages, based on the information provided by Netscape’s What’s Related Service, is given in Table 2.
| Institution | Number of Pages | Current Details |
| Sheffield | 26,865 | Try it |
| Aberystwyth | 14,990 | Try it |
| Leeds | 14,675 | Try it |
| Bath | 14,471 | Try it |
| Southampton | 12,842 | Try it |
Numbers of Links
The five Web servers with the highest number of links, based on the information provided by Netscape’s What’s Related Service, is given in Table 3.
| Institution | Number of Pages | Current Details |
| Imperial College | 25,817 | Try it |
| Leeds | 19,920 | Try it |
| Reading | 18,365 | Try it |
| Exeter | 18,242 | Try it |
| Cardiff | 18,007 | Try it |
Note that it would be interesting to compare the information on the number of links to the main institutional Web servers with the survey carried out in March 2000 using ALtaVista which was published in Ariadne issue 23 [5].
Related Pages
As might be expected the related pages for University Web sites were often other University Web sites (especially other Universities within the region or Universities beginning with the same letter) as can be seen from Figure 4.
Figure 4: What’s Related For The University Of Bath
It was interesting to note that many Universities were seen to be related to the Graduatebase.com Web site [6].
A number of other interesting relationships were observed, some of which are summarised below.
| Institution | Related Site | Check |
| Bradford | Related to a Greek Web site | Try it |
| Oxford | Related to Yale and Harvard | Try it |
| Cambridge | Related to Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova | Try it |
| Royal Veterinary College | Related to The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool | Try it |
It should be noted that the relationships are provided for the Web site and not for individual Web pages. So, for example, if you are viewing a page on nuclear physics which is hosted on the institutional Web server, the What’s Related information will provide links to Web sites which are related to the institutional Web server, and not to the pages on nuclear physics.
This provides an argument for hosting departmental and project pages on their own domain rather than on the institutional Web server. As can be seen from Figure 5, which shows the What’s Related links for the DESIRE project [7], more relevant links can be provided in such cases.
Figure 5: What’s Related For The DESIRE Project
This argument for hosting departmental and project pages on their own domain does not, of course, address the maintenance and support issues.
Discussion
The success of the Google search engine [8] has demonstrated the effectiveness of citation analysis for finding relevant resources - a resource is given a high rating if there are many Web sites which link to the resource. Although Netscape’s What’s Related Service does not seem to be widely used (possibly due to Netscape’s uncertain future following the AOL / Time Warner takeover deals) it may be useful to monitor developments in services which use citation information.
The What’s Related Service is interesting since it not only uses the link information provided by Alexa [9] (which in turn uses the Internet Archive service [10]) but, since it is integrated within a Web browser, it can also make use of end user browser patterns (resource A is related to resource B not only becuase there are hyperlinks between A and B, but also because many users follow the link).
The figures on the popularity of Web sites, the numbers of pages on the Web site and the numbers of links to the Web site are, of course, open to various interpretions. Further work remains to be done.
References
- About What’s Related, Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/ - What’s Related FAQ, Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/faq.html - RDF: Related Links and other such fun stuff, Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/doc/SmartBrowsing.html - Higher Education Universities and Colleges, HESA
http://www.hesa.ac.uk/links/he_inst.htm - A Survey Of Links to UK University Web Sites, Ariadne, issue 23,
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/web-watch/ - Graduatebase,
http://www.graduatebase.com/ - DESIRE,
http://www.desire.org/ - Google,
http://www.google.com/ - Alexa Internet,
http://www.alexa.com/ - The Internet Archive,
http://www.archive.org/
Appendix 1: Survey Results
The Netscape What’s Related service was used to analyse institutional Web servers in UK Universities. The survey was carried out on 20 and 23 October 2000.
The following table contains details of the survey. Column 2 gives the name of the institution and a link to the institutional web server. Column 3 gives the information provided by What’s Related service on (a) the popularity of the institional Web site, (b) the number of pages on the site and © the number of links to the site. This column also has a link enabling you to obtain the current details for the site. Column 4 provides a link to Google’s Find Similar service.
A summary of the findings is given in the following table.
| Institution | What’s Related (Netscape) | Find Similar (Google) | |
| 1 | Aberdeen | Popularity: In top 25,982 Number of pages on site: 9,802 Number of links to site on web: 13,905 Try it | Try it |
| 2 | Abertay | Popularity: In top 287,267 Number of pages on site: 20 Number of links to site on web: 118 Try it | Try it |
| 3 | Aberystwyth | Popularity: In top 21,719 Number of pages on site: 14,990 Number of links to site on web: 3,906 Try it | Try it |
| 4 | Anglia | Popularity: In top 74,379 Number of pages on site: 360 Number of links to site on web: 1,847 Try it | Try it |
| 5 | Aston | Popularity: In top 94,516 Number of pages on site: 2,623 Number of links to site on web: 2,038 Try it | Try it |
| 6 | Bangor | Popularity: In top 66,841 Number of pages on site: 2,906 Number of links to site on web: 5,198 Try it | Try it |
| 7 | Bath Spa | Popularity: In top 184,567 Number of pages on site: 139 Number of links to site on web: 425 Try it | Try it |
| 8 | Bath | Popularity: In top 19,653 Number of pages on site: 14,471 Number of links to site on web: 6,008 Try it | Try it |
| 9 | Belfast, Queen’s University of | Popularity: In top 26,739 Number of pages on site: 5,566 Number of links to site on web: 7,016 Try it | Try it |
| 10 | Birkbeck | Popularity: In top 83,469 Number of pages on site: 411 Number of links to site on web: 2,688 Try it | Try it |
| 11 | Birmingham | Popularity: In top 24,082 Number of pages on site: 3,878 Number of links to site on web: 13,988 Try it | Try it |
| 12 | Bishop Grosseteste College | Popularity: In top 698,862 Number of pages on site: 34 Number of links to site on web: 105 Try it | Try it |
| 13 | Bolton | Popularity: In top 280,668 Number of pages on site: 15 Number of links to site on web: 940 Try it | Try it |
| 14 | Bournemouth | Popularity: In top 103,525 Number of pages on site: 262 Number of links to site on web: 1,857 Try it | Try it |
| 15 | Bradford | Popularity: In top 40,101 Number of pages on site: 3,556 Number of links to site on web: 9,537 Try it | Try it |
| 16 | Bretton Hall | Popularity: In top 337,532 Number of pages on site: 21 Number of links to site on web: 103 Try it | Try it |
| 17 | Brighton | Popularity: In top 137,686 Number of pages on site: 693 Number of links to site on web: 2,058 Try it | Try it |
| 18 | Bristol | Popularity: In top 37,346 Number of pages on site: 4,586 Number of links to site on web: 16,420 Try it | Try it |
| 19 | Brunel | Popularity: In top 42,152 Number of pages on site: 10,710 Number of links to site on web: 8,251 Try it | |
| 20 | Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College | Popularity: In top 367,171 Number of pages on site: 4 Number of links to site on web: 192 Try it | Try it |
| 21 | Cambridge | Popularity: In top 16,911 Number of pages on site: 2,786 Number of links to site on web: 15,889 Try it | |
| 22 | Canterbury Christ Church University College | Popularity: In top 88,475 Number of pages on site: 1,815 Number of links to site on web: 6,329 Try it | Try it |
| 23 | Cardiff | Popularity: In top 24,266 Number of pages on site: 790 Number of links to site on web: 18,007 Try it | |
| 23 | Cardiff, University of Wales Institute | Popularity: In top 142,978 Number of pages on site: 32 Number of links to site on web: 699 Try it | Try it |
| 25 | Central England in Birmingham, The University of | Popularity: In top 51,292 Number of pages on site: 689 Number of links to site on web: 1,126 Try it | |
| 26 | Central Lancashire, The University of | Popularity: In top 68,683 Number of pages on site: 8,128 Number of links to site on web: 2,948 Try it | Try it |
| 27 | Central School of Speech and Drama | Popularity: In top 246,510 Number of pages on site: 35 Number of links to site on web: 65 Try it | Try it |
| 28 | Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE | Popularity: In top 147,661 Number of pages on site: 1,528 Number of links to site on web: 1,334 Try it | Try it |
| 29 | Chester College of HE | Popularity: In top 145,842 Number of pages on site: 1,032 Number of links to site on web: 507 Try it | Try it |
| 30 | Chichester, University College | Popularity: In top 1,425,790 Number of pages on site: ?? Number of links to site on web: 1 Try it NOTE: Web domain recently changed from www.chihe.ac.uk | Try it |
| 31 | City University | Popularity: In top 42,375 Number of pages on site: 1,931 Number of links to site on web: 4,908 Try it | Try it |
| 32 | College of Guidance Studies | Popularity: In top 3,776,710 Number of pages on site: 18 Number of links to site on web: 38 Try it | Try it |
| 33 | Coventry | Popularity: In top 95,673 Number of pages on site: 516 Number of links to site on web: 2,147 Try it | Try it |
| 34 | Cranfield | Popularity: In top 49,789 Number of pages on site: 273 Number of links to site on web: 6,173 Try it | Try it |
| 35 | Dartington | Popularity: In top 525,489 Number of pages on site: 90 Number of links to site on web: 214 Try it | Try it |
| 36 | De Montfort University | Popularity: In top 41,636 Number of pages on site: 2,842 Number of links to site on web: 4,623 Try it | Try it |
| 37 | Derby | Popularity: In top 77,496 Number of pages on site: 2,551 Number of links to site on web: 1,434 Try it | Try it |
| 38 | Dundee | Popularity: In top 31,397 Number of pages on site: 4,986 Number of links to site on web: 7,376 Try it | Try it |
| 39 | Durham | Popularity: In top 23,567 Number of pages on site: 12,701 Number of links to site on web: 9,973 Try it | Try it |
| 40 | East Anglia, The University of | Popularity: In top 44,236 Number of pages on site: 8,604 Number of links to site on web: 4,811 Try it | Try it |
| 41 | East London, The University of | Popularity: In top 86,129 Number of pages on site: ? Number of links to site on web: 3,775 Try it | Try it |
| 42 | Edge Hill | Popularity: In top 143,074 Number of pages on site: 1,062 Number of links to site on web: 736 Try it | Try it |
| 43 | Edinburgh College of Art | Popularity: 598,063 Number of pages on site: 21 Number of links to site on web: 327 Try it | Try it |
| 44 | Edinburgh | Popularity: In top 30,479 Number of pages on site: 382 Number of links to site on web: 7,390 Try it | Try it |
| 45 | Essex | Popularity: In top 51,655 Number of pages on site: 1,409 Number of links to site on web: 6,166 Try it | Try it |
| 46 | Exeter | Popularity: In top 16,854 Number of pages on site: 7,279 Number of links to site on web: 18,242 Try it | Try it |
| 47 | Falmouth College of Arts | Popularity: In top 1,182,181 Number of pages on site: 45 Number of links to site on web: 421 Try it | Try it |
| 48 | Glamorgan | Popularity: In top 110,798 Number of pages on site: 751 Number of links to site on web: 1,434 Try it | Try it |
| 49 | Glasgow Caledonian University | Popularity: In top 141,153 Number of pages on site: 534 Number of links to site on web: 2,821 Try it | Try it |
| 50 | Glasgow School of Art | Popularity: In top 192,352 Number of pages on site: 623 Number of links to site on web: 514 Try it | Try it |
| 51 | Glasgow | Popularity: In top 16,336 Number of pages on site: 7,918 Number of links to site on web: 13,328 Try it | Try it |
| 52 | Goldsmiths | Popularity: In top 94,188 Number of pages on site: 248 Number of links to site on web: 620 Try it | Try it |
| 53 | Greenwich | Popularity: In top 48,410 Number of pages on site: 4,196 Number of links to site on web: 2,407 Try it | Try it |
| 54 | Harper Adams University College | Popularity: In top 1,259,559 Number of pages on site: 32 Number of links to site on web: 221 Try it | Try it |
| 55 | Heriot-Watt | Popularity: In top 67,131 Number of pages on site: 2,539 Number of links to site on web: 6,144 Try it | Try it |
| 56 | Hertfordshire | Popularity: In top 54,242 Number of pages on site: 2,620 Number of links to site on web: 3,391 Try it | Try it |
| 57 | Homerton College | Popularity: Has Cambridge’s domain! Number of pages on site: Has Cambridge’s domain! Number of links to site on web: Has Cambridge’s domain! Try it | Try it |
| 58 | Huddersfield | Popularity: In top 71,840 Number of pages on site: 2,360 Number of links to site on web: 3,105 Try it | Try it |
| 59 | Hull | Popularity: In top 47,728 Number of pages on site: 3,269 Number of links to site on web: 8,473 Try it | Try it |
| 60 | Imperial College | Popularity: In top 89,134 Number of pages on site: 129 Number of links to site on web: 25,817 Try it | Try it |
| 61 | Institute of Education | Popularity: In top 135,053 Number of pages on site: 1,086 Number of links to site on web: 1,403 Try it | Try it |
| 62 | Keele | Popularity: In top 46,832 Number of pages on site: 4,039 Number of links to site on web: 9,796 Try it | Try it |
| 63 | Kent at Canterbury, The University of | Popularity: In top 75,215 Number of pages on site: 382 Number of links to site on web: 5,597 Try it | Try it |
| 64 | Kent Institute of Art & Design | Popularity: In top 732,496 Number of pages on site: 21 Number of links to site on web: 173 Try it | Try it |
| 65 | King Alfred’s College, Winchester | Popularity: In top 172,749 Number of pages on site: 319 Number of links to site on web: 461 Try it | Try it |
| 66 | King’s College London | Popularity: In top 24,007 Number of pages on site: 7,774 Number of links to site on web: 7,805 Try it | Try it |
| 67 | Kingston University | Popularity: In top 78,251 Number of pages on site: 1,898 Number of links to site on web: 2,289 Try it | Try it |
| 68 | Lampeter | Popularity: In top 74,830 Number of pages on site: 832 Number of links to site on web: 3,423 Try it | Try it |
| 69 | Lancaster | Popularity: In top 33,260 Number of pages on site: 4,360 Number of links to site on web: 13,951 Try it | Try it |
| 70 | Leeds Metropolitan University | Popularity: In top 64,009 Number of pages on site: 2,454 Number of links to site on web: 2,117 Try it | Try it |
| 71 | Leeds | Popularity: In top 17,160 Number of pages on site: 14,675 Number of links to site on web: 19,920 Try it | Try it |
| 72 | Leicester | Popularity: In top 25,501 Number of pages on site: 5,813 Number of links to site on web: 10,075 Try it | Try it |
| 73 | Lincolnshire and Humberside, The University of | Popularity: In top 220,335 Number of pages on site: 178 Number of links to site on web: 157 Try it | Try it |
| 74 | Liverpool Hope | Popularity: In top 370,027 Number of pages on site: 1,182 Number of links to site on web: 968 Try it | Try it |
| 75 | Liverpool John Moores University | Popularity: In top 48,865 Number of pages on site: 2,650 Number of links to site on web: 4,051 Try it | Try it |
| 76 | Liverpool | Popularity: In top 20,495 Number of pages on site: 689 Number of links to site on web: 12,729 Try it | Try it |
| 77 | London Business School | Popularity: In top 59,181 Number of pages on site: 588 Number of links to site on web: 1,989 Try it | Try it |
| 78 | London Guildhall University | Popularity: In top 65,144 Number of pages on site: 2,056 Number of links to site on web: 3,824 Try it | Try it |
| 79 | London Institute, The | Popularity: In top 173,316 Number of pages on site: ? Number of links to site on web: 275 Try it | Try it |
| 80 | London Institutes and activities, University of | Popularity: In top 66,861 Number of pages on site: 139 Number of links to site on web: 627 Try it | Try it |
| 81 | London School of Economics and Political Science | Popularity: In top 22,869 Number of pages on site: 1,422 Number of links to site on web: 4,999 Try it | Try it |
| 82 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Popularity: In top 162,482 Number of pages on site: 458 Number of links to site on web: 1,053 Try it | Try it |
| 83 | Loughborough | Popularity: In top 35,073 Number of pages on site: 4,554 Number of links to site on web: 12,331 Try it | Try it |
| 84 | Luton | Popularity: In top 59,596 Number of pages on site: 335 Number of links to site on web: 3,394 Try it | Try it |
| 85 | University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) | Popularity: In top 83,371 Number of pages on site: 930 Number of links to site on web: 4,161 Try it | Try it |
| 86 | Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) | Popularity: In top 56,394 Number of pages on site: 1,786 Number of links to site on web: 4,699 Try it | Try it |
| 87 | Manchester | Popularity: In top 24,077 Number of pages on site: 5,989 Number of links to site on web: 9,303 Try it | Try it |
| 88 | Middlesex | Popularity: In top 74,422 Number of pages on site: 1,127 Number of links to site on web: 2,519 Try it | Try it |
| 89 | Napier | Popularity: In top 129,276 Number of pages on site: 6,355 Number of links to site on web: 3,178 Try it | Try it |
| 90 | Newcastle | Popularity: In top 25,855 Number of pages on site: 9,589 Number of links to site on web: 15,825 Try it | Try it |
| 91 | Newman College of Higher Education | Popularity: In top 412,734 Number of pages on site: 113 Number of links to site on web: 495 Try it | Try it |
| 92 | Newport, University College of Wales | Popularity: In top 275,788 Number of pages on site: 216 Number of links to site on web: 345 Try it | Try it |
| 93 | North-East Wales Institute of Higher Education | Popularity: In top 237,402 Number of pages on site: 1,606 Number of links to site on web: 1,405 Try it | Try it |
| 94 | North London, The University of | Popularity: In top 62,776 Number of pages on site: 517 Number of links to site on web: 2,339 Try it | Try it |
| 95 | North Riding College Higher Education Corporation | Popularity: In top 645,401 Number of pages on site: 36 Number of links to site on web: 231 Try it | Try it |
| 96 | Northampton, University College | Popularity: In top 93,832 Number of pages on site: 1,366 Number of links to site on web: 3,638 Try it | Try it |
| 97 | Northern College of Education | Popularity: In top 179,866 Number of pages on site: 315 Number of links to site on web: 707 Try it | Try it |
| 98 | Northern School of Contemporary Dance | Popularity: In top 1,603,157 Number of pages on site: 54 Number of links to site on web: 153 Try it | Try it |
| 99 | Northumbria at Newcastle, The University of (UNN) | Popularity: In top 39,464 Number of pages on site: 2,228 Number of links to site on web: 6,377 Try it | Try it |
| 100 | Norwich School of Art and Design | Popularity: In top 792,158 Number of pages on site: 36 Number of links to site on web: 184 Try it | Try it |
| 101 | Nottingham Trent University (NTU) | Popularity: In top 81,506 Number of pages on site: 872 Number of links to site on web: 2,477 Try it | Try it |
| 102 | Nottingham | Popularity: In top 12,766 Number of pages on site: 11,881 Number of links to site on web: 12,997 Try it | Try it |
| 103 | Open University | Popularity: In top 7,221 Number of pages on site: 1,501 Number of links to site on web: 5,637 Try it | Try it |
| 104 | Oxford Brookes | Popularity: In top 34,862 Number of pages on site: 2,881 Number of links to site on web: 7,887 Try it | Try it |
| 105 | Oxford | Popularity: In top 29,592 Number of pages on site: 202 Number of links to site on web: 5,881 Try it | Try it |
| 106 | Paisley | Popularity: In top 205,033 Number of pages on site: 429 Number of links to site on web: 1,719 Try it | Try it |
| 107 | Plymouth | Popularity: In top 187,409 Number of pages on site: 655 Number of links to site on web: 3,374 Try it | Try it |
| 108 | Portsmouth | Popularity: In top 113,833 Number of pages on site: 38 Number of links to site on web: 2,278 Try it | Try it |
| 109 | Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh | Popularity: In top 297,784 Number of pages on site: 142 Number of links to site on web: 520 Try it | Try it |
| 110 | Queen Mary and Westfield College | Popularity: In top 80,413 Number of pages on site: 1,806 Number of links to site on web: 3,644 Try it | Try it |
| 111 | Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication | Popularity: In top 455,159 Number of pages on site: 49 Number of links to site on web: 232 Try it | Try it |
| 112 | Reading | Popularity: In top 24,126 Number of pages on site: 9,172 Number of links to site on web: 18,365 Try it | Try it |
| 113 | Registry, The University of Wales | Popularity: In top 358,828 Number of pages on site: 36 Number of links to site on web: 209 Try it | Try it |
| 114 | Ripon and York St John, The College of | Popularity: In top 126,709 Number of pages on site: 167 Number of links to site on web: 408 Try it | Try it |
| 115 | Robert Gordon University (RGU) | Popularity: In top 72,272 Number of pages on site: 1,030 Number of links to site on web: 2,483 Try it | Try it |
| 116 | Roehampton, University of Surrey | Popularity: In top 112,513 Number of pages on site: 159 Number of links to site on web: 1,099 Try it | Try it |
| 117 | Rose Bruford College Speech and Drama | Popularity: In top 905,416 Number of pages on site: 33 Number of links to site on web: 79 Try it | Try it |
| 118 | Royal Academy of Music | Popularity: In top 441,991 Number of pages on site: 32 Number of links to site on web: 321 Try it | Try it |
| 119 | Royal College of Art | Popularity: In top 207,721 Number of pages on site: 124 Number of links to site on web: 404 Try it | Try it |
| 120 | Royal College of Music | Popularity: In top 313,673 Number of pages on site: 29 Number of links to site on web: 287 Try it | Try it |
| 121 | Royal Holloway and Bedford New College | Popularity: In top 87,686 Number of pages on site: 1,106 Number of links to site on web: 4,489 Try it | Try it |
| 122 | Royal Northern College of Music | Popularity: In top 513,686 Number of pages on site: 194 Number of links to site on web: 234 Try it | Try it |
| 123 | Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama | Popularity: In top 735,184 Number of pages on site: 114 Number of links to site on web: 204 Try it | Try it |
| 124 | Royal Veterinary College | Popularity: In top 429,903 Number of pages on site: 10 Number of links to site on web: 415 Try it | Try it |
| 125 | St Andrews | Popularity: In top 63,464 Number of pages on site: 4,254 Number of links to site on web: 8,827 Try it | Try it |
| 126 | St George’s Hospital Medical School | Popularity: In top 89,074 Number of pages on site: 851 Number of links to site on web: 2,876 Try it | Try it |
| 127 | Saint Mark and St John, College of | Popularity: In top 531,871 Number of pages on site: 29 Number of links to site on web: 244 Try it | Try it |
| 128 | St Martin’s College | Popularity: In top 349,400 Number of pages on site: 32 Number of links to site on web: 631 Try it | Try it |
| 129 | St Mary’s College | Popularity: In top 413,212 Number of pages on site: 159 Number of links to site on web: 267 Try it | Try it |
| 130 | Salford | Popularity: In top 64,698 Number of pages on site: 3,264 Number of links to site on web: 6,222 Try it | Try it |
| 131 | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) | Popularity: In top 90,621 Number of pages on site: 497 Number of links to site on web: 2,823 Try it | Try it |
| 132 | School of Pharmacy, The | Popularity: In top 1,001,810 Number of pages on site: 21 Number of links to site on web: 143 Try it | Try it |
| 133 | Scottish Agricultural College | Popularity: In top 282,399 Number of pages on site: 510 Number of links to site on web: 535 Try it | Try it |
| 134 | Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) | Popularity: In top 18,089 Number of pages on site: 8,711 Number of links to site on web: 5,833 Try it | Try it |
| 135 | Sheffield | Popularity: In top 7,238 Number of pages on site: 26,865 Number of links to site on web: 32,732 Try it | Try it |
| 136 | South Bank University (SBU) | Popularity: In top 34,391 Number of pages on site: 3,196 Number of links to site on web: 4,924 Try it | Try it |
| 137 | Southampton Institute | Popularity: In top 25,963 Number of pages on site: 2,250 Number of links to site on web: 1,378 Try it | Try it |
| 138 | Southampton | Popularity: In top 8,259 Number of pages on site: 12,842 Number of links to site on web: 5,341 Try it | Try it |
| 139 | Staffordshire | Popularity: In top 83,051 Number of pages on site: 3,706 Number of links to site on web: 2,188 Try it | Try it |
| 140 | Stirling | Popularity: In top 41,227 Number of pages on site: 1,840 Number of links to site on web: 7,296 Try it | Try it |
| 141 | Strathclyde | Popularity: In top 30,871 Number of pages on site: 8,071 Number of links to site on web: 9,013 Try it | Try it |
| 142 | Sunderland | Popularity: In top 63,685 Number of pages on site: 2,089 Number of links to site on web: 1,732 Try it | Try it |
| 143 | Surrey Institute of Art and Design | Popularity: In top 366,669 Number of pages on site: 113 Number of links to site on web: 406 Try it | Try it |
| 144 | Surrey | Popularity: No information available Number of pages on site: No information available Number of links to site on web: No information available Try it | Try it |
| 145 | Sussex | Popularity: In top 40,248 Number of pages on site: 2,156 Number of links to site on web: 11,732 Try it | Try it |
| 146 | Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Popularity: In top 882,069 Number of pages on site: 142 Number of links to site on web: 480 Try it | Try it |
| 147 | Swansea | Popularity: In top 47,203 Number of pages on site: 4,335 Number of links to site on web: 14,057 Try it | Try it |
| 148 | Teesside | Popularity: In top 167,626 Number of pages on site: 1,074 Number of links to site on web: 2,028 Try it | Try it |
| 149 | Thames Valley University (TVU) | Popularity: In top 110,152 Number of pages on site: 243 Number of links to site on web: 434 Try it | Try it |
| 150 | Trinity and All Saints College | Popularity: In top 125,641 Number of pages on site: 1,061 Number of links to site on web: 971 Try it | Try it |
| 151 | Trinity College of Music | Popularity: In top 448,843 Number of pages on site: 22 Number of links to site on web: 176 Try it | Try it |
| 152 | Trinity College, Carmarthen | Popularity: In top 637,670 Number of pages on site: 164 Number of links to site on web: 496 Try it | Try it |
| 153 | Ulster, University of | Popularity: In top 50,765 Number of pages on site: 5,051 Number of links to site on web: 14,953 Try it | Try it |
| 154 | University College London (UCL) | Popularity: In top 19,389 Number of pages on site: 570 Number of links to site on web: 10,645 Try it | Try it |
| 155 | Warwick | Popularity: In top 17,682 Number of pages on site: 5,722 Number of links to site on web: 15,085 Try it | Try it |
| 156 | Welsh College of Music and Drama | Popularity: In top 678,886 Number of pages on site: 27 Number of links to site on web: 167 Try it | Try it |
| 157 | West of England, University of the | Popularity: In top 81,456 Number of pages on site: 1,637 Number of links to site on web: 1,657 Try it | Try it |
| 158 | Westminster College | Popularity: In top 178,253 Number of pages on site: 4 Number of links to site on web: 493 Try it | Try it |
| 159 | Westminster | Popularity: In top 33,130 Number of pages on site: 2,772 Number of links to site on web: 5,485 Try it | Try it |
| 160 | Wolverhampton | Popularity: In top 43,352 Number of pages on site: 3,430 Number of links to site on web: 2,664 Try it | Try it |
| 161 | Worcester, University College | Popularity: In top 254,777 Number of pages on site: 8 Number of links to site on web: 479 Try it | Try it |
| 162 | Writtle College | Popularity: In top 748,200 Number of pages on site: 54 Number of links to site on web: 220 Try it | Try it |
| 163 | Wye College | Popularity: In top 279,363 Number of pages on site: 630 Number of links to site on web: 723 Try it | Try it |
| 164 | York | Popularity: In top 26,222 Number of pages on site: 7,067 Number of links to site on web: 10,932 Try it | Try it |
The information in the table was collected on 21 and 23 October 2000.
Author Details
Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath
BA2 7AY
Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus. He works for UKOLN, which is based at the University of Bath