Up-to-Parent Links provide
access to less specific information, allowing
users to navigate up a level in the information
hierarchy.
Data below is from
75 leading e-commerce sites, collected
in May, 2002. [sites
examined]
Frequency of Up-to-Parent Links
28% of pages had Up-to-Parent
links. This frequency is based on the number of pages
where Up-to-Parent links could occur. [details]
The frequency of Up-to-Parent (28%)
and of Across-to-Sibling (27%) links was similar; however,
they tended not to occur together (only 6% of pages
contained both Up-to-Parent links and Across-to-Sibling
links). More discussion...
