Tag/Size Ratio

For each document we examined the ratio of the total number of tags to its size. The graph below contains the results. An interesting pattern emerges - rays radiating out from the origin, indicating a number of documents with constant tag/size ratios. One such ray is indicated by the green ellipse. We examined a number of these rays and determined that they represented different versions of the same document (occurring in archives or mirrored sites). This suggests that the tag/size ratio might be used as a component of a signature for an HTML document, e.g., for purposes of copy detection.


Tag/Size Ratio