Characterization of the Argentinian Web

• Autores: Gabriel Tolosa, Fernando Bordignon, Ricardo Baeza Yates, Carlos Castillo
• Localización: Cybermetrics: International Journal of Scientometrics, Informetrics and Bibliometrics, ISSN-e 1137-5019, Nº. 11, 2007
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article presents the results of research on the characterization of the Argentinian web domain over a sample of almost 10 million web pages from 150.000 sites collected in the early 2006. Particularly, we have studied page contents, link structure and technologies used in the construction of the sites. The results are consistent with earlier research on other national web domains, where the same analysis methodology has been used. This study reveals a number of interesting facts: To begin with, there is a significant proportion (97.6%) of ".com.ar" domains with respect to other second level domains. As regards page contents, we have found a predominance of terms related to commercial activity. However, terms found in site names, extracted from their URLs, are mostly related to tourism. A large proportion of the pages (55%) do not have inbound links coming from other sites in the ".ar" domain while a 30% do not have outbound links. 72% of the pages have been created or modified in the last year, which indicates that the Argentinian web space is growing quickly. As for technologies, 48% of the pages from the sample are static and 52% dynamic, the latter being mostly built using free tools like PHP and Perl. Besides, 76% of the sites are hosted on servers geographically located in Argentina. These two facts show there is an important web-related technological development and communication infrastructure in Argentina.