Patent ID: 8230072

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining that a particular navigation path comprising a sequential route through a particular sequence of a plurality of pages on a network is a popular navigation path relative to other navigation paths comprising other sequences of pages on the network, wherein: the particular sequence of pages of the particular navigation path initiates from a navigation path start page of the particular navigation path, and includes a navigation path end page of the particular navigation path; and said determining is based on comparing network traffic through the particular sequence of pages of the particular navigation path against network traffic through the other sequences of pages of the other navigation paths on the network; and in response to said determining that the particular navigation path is a popular navigation path relative to the other navigation paths, automatically shortening the particular navigation path, wherein said shortening comprises: updating, via a network resource interfaced with the network, the navigation path start page of the particular navigation path, wherein said updating comprises adding to the navigation path start page of the particular navigation path an end page link referring to the navigation path end page of the particular navigation path.