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Flat vs. Deep Website Hierarchies

Virtually every website that has more than a few pages uses some structure for organizing the content. The most common (and most easily understood) structure is to categorize pages into groups, often with distinct subgroups. The end result is a hierarchy of content, a structure familiar to most of us from our interactions with organizations, families, and the natural world.

Decisions about exactly how content should be grouped can have dramatic consequences for how your site's structure works (or doesn't work) for users, but these nuances are difficult to understand at first glance. To analyze how a structure will work, we often need to create a visualization that shows a high-level view of how the different pages of a site relate to each other.

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