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ABSTRACT:

The growing World-Wide Web requires scientific research to strengthen 
and extend design guidelines. Exploratory research was undertaken to 
investigate the relationship between (1) site size and structure and 
(2) user navigation and perception. Experimental results showed that 
strongly hierarchical sites are more usable; site size has little effect 
on user navigation and mental models; nodes high in the hierarchy tend 
to be more memorable; and strongly hierarchical sites are perceived as 
smaller than weakly hierarchical sites, other factors being equal. 
Results also showed that structural landmarks tend to be poor predictors 
of behavioral landmarks.