I discovered this while I was surfing the internets on a bright, sunny day.

http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

So it's like this: this awesome guy goes and creates a java applet which shows websites as graphs, depicting all of the site's table, links, divs, etc. Here is a more descriptive summary of how it works at their website.

Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu.

HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.

I've used some color to indicate the most used tags in the following way:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

If you're interested, you can input your favorite websites, take a screenshot, and post the results here. I have done the same thing with our very own Metal Storm.



(I had to expand the image to make it easier to see, so the quality is kind of low.)

I'm not sure I understand this at all.

Sounds interesting though.

What an stupid idea.

mmm i really don't undertand...but really i don't find some sense...sorry

i don't get it either, it's a nice picture though!

I understand it but I find it a bit of a strange representation.

Why i was the only one who got it? am i that nerd?
Well i did one for my website but it took ages so i got bored and i closed it.
But really who did this website is awesome, he is smart enough to ask his app to read it that fast and sort it in such a way
Nice thread dude, but it seems no one really enjoyed it