Patent ID: 8375286

Claim:
A method for recording website activity, the method comprising: for a plurality of web pages, including a source page displaying links to one or more destination pages, tracking activity relating to the number of times each link has been selected from the source page by one or more users navigating among the web pages over a period of time; in response to a user request, parsing the source page to identify the links displayed on the source page; determining the number of times each link has been selected from the source page by one or more users; modifying a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for each link to include the number of times the corresponding link has been selected from the source page; extracting from each URL, the number of times each corresponding link has been selected from the source page; displaying on the source page the number of times each link has been selected by displaying a value adjacent each link corresponding to the number of times the link has been selected; and using the number of times each link has been selected to modify one or more of the web pages to optimize access to the most popular links.